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History of the Yorkshire Terrier
The original history of the Yorkshire Terrier is included in Joan Gordon and Janet Bennet's "The Complete Yorkshire Terrier". Also included is an exerpt from Mr Ed Bootman of Halifax, England on the origin of the YorkshireTerrier printed in "The Stockkeeper in 1887". They state that the true origin of this breed is Swift's Old Crab, a Scotch Terrier, Kershaw's Kitty, a Skye, and an Old English Terrier bitch of the black and tan saddle. All this taking place back before 1850.Up until this time they were mostly known as Scotch Terriers, some as Paisley, Clydesdale or Skye Terriers. At his creation we know the original history and what went into creating the Yorkshire Terrier. By the 1860's these dogs were already being shown in England and entered in the stud book. The Clydesdale and Paisley Terriers no longer exist, but in the makeup of all of these breeds is the same saddle in color.
The parent of all Yorkshire Terriers today, that can be traced back to one single dog, would be Huddersfield Ben born in 1865, pictured below.
These dogs were prized for their ratting ability and they were breeding for a patterened saddle with a silk coat on a small dog that could easily get into small areas to get the rats. These old time breeders had a very specific picture in mind for their creation and set the pattern for today's Yorkshire Terrier.
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