Dandie Dinmont Terrier

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Dandie Dinmont Terrier

Disambiguation: "Dandie Dinmont" is also a character in Guy Mannering

Guy Mannering

Guy Mannering or The Astrologer is a novel by Sir Walter Scott, published anonymously in 1815.According to an introduction that Scott wrote in 1829, he had originally intended to write a story of the supernatural, but changed his mind soon after starting....
, a novel by Walter Scott

A Dandie Dinmont Terrier is a small breed

Dog breed

Dog breeds are groups of closely related and visibly similar domestic dogs, which are all of the subspecies Canis lupus familiaris, having characteristic traits that are selected and maintained by humans, bred from a known foundation stock....
of dog

Dog

The dog is a domesticated subspecies of the Gray Wolf, a member of the Canidae family of the order Carnivora. The term is used for both feral and pet varieties....
in the terrier

Terrier

A terrier is a dog of any one of many Dog breeds or landraces of terrier Dog type, which are typically small, wiry, very active and fearless dogs....
family. The breed has a very long body, short legs, and a distinctive "top-knot" of hair on the head.

inally bred to go to ground, the Dandie Dinmont Terrier is a long, low-stationed working terrier with a curved outline.

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Disambiguation: "Dandie Dinmont" is also a character in Guy Mannering

Guy Mannering

Dog breed

Dog

The dog is a domesticated subspecies of the Gray Wolf, a member of the Canidae family of the order Carnivora. The term is used for both feral and pet varieties....
in the terrier

Terrier

Description

Appearance

Originally bred to go to ground, the Dandie Dinmont Terrier is a long, low-stationed working terrier with a curved outline. The distinctive head with silken topknot is large but in proportion to the size of the dog. The dark eyes are large and round with a soft, wise expression. Dandie Dinmonts are between 8 and 11 inches tall at the top of the shoulders and can weigh between 18 and 24 pounds. The dogs are sturdily built with strong bone structure and ample muscular strength. The sturdy, flexible body and scimitar shaped tail are covered with a rather crisp double coat, either mustard or pepper in color. Pepper ranges from dark bluish black to a light silvery gray, the topknot is a silvery white. Mustard can range from a reddish brown to a pale fawn, with the topknot a creamy white.

This breed

Breed

A breed is a group of Domestication with a Homogeneity appearance, behavior, and other characteristics that distinguish it from other animals of the same species....
has little to no shedding (see Moult

Moult

In biology, moulting signifies the manner in which an animal routinely casts off a part of its body , either at specific times of year, or at specific points in its life-cycle....
).

Temperament

The Dandie Dinmont is affectionate and fun-loving. It makes a great companion dog. Lively, plucky, determined and willful. Independent and intelligent. Bold yet dignified. Reserved with strangers and protective of family and home. Good with all well-behaved children and babies as long as they are raised with them from puppyhood. Dominance level varies greatly. Some males can be aggressive with other male dogs in the household while females can be snappy and bad tempered

History

This short legged terrier was developed in the 17th century as an otter

Otter

Otters are semi-aquatic fish-eating mammals. The otter Rank Lutrinae forms part of the Family Mustelidae, which also includes weasels, polecats, badgers, as well as others....
and badger

Badger

Badger is the common name for a specific group of carnivora mammals, which belong to the family Mustelidae, which also includes weasels, otters, ferrets, wolverines, and relatives....
specialist in the Cheviot

Cheviot Hills

The Cheviot Hills are a range of rolling hills straddling the England/Scotland border between Northumberland and the Scottish Borders.Broadly there is a split between the Northern Cheviots which encompass most of the high ground and has five main valleys...
and Teviotdale Hills in the border country

Border country

The border country is the area either side of the Anglo-Scottish border including parts of the modern council areas of Dumfries and Galloway and the Scottish Borders, and parts of the Counties of England of Cumbria, County Durham and Northumberland....
of Scotland

Scotland

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and England

England

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. The Dandie Dinmont Terrier is named after Dandie Dinmont, a jovial farmer in Sir Walter Scott

Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, was a prolific Scotland historical novelist and poet popular throughout Europe during his time.In some ways Scott was the first English-language author to have a truly international career in his lifetime, with many contemporary readers all over Europe, Australia, and North America....
's novel Guy Mannering
Guy Mannering

Guy Mannering or The Astrologer is a novel by Sir Walter Scott, published anonymously in 1815.According to an introduction that Scott wrote in 1829, he had originally intended to write a story of the supernatural, but changed his mind soon after starting....
. Scott also gave the names to the breed's colours, pepper and mustard, which were adopted from the names of Dandie Dinmont's dogs. The Dandie Dinmont Terrier is the only breed to be named after a character in fiction.

In the 1870s, exhibiting dogs became popular. The Kennel Club

The Kennel Club

The Kennel Club is a kennel club based in London and Aylesbury, England.Founded on 4 April, 1873, the club is the oldest of the world?s all-breed kennel clubs....
formed in 1873 and, just after this time, moves were made by Dandie enthusiasts to form a club. On November 17, 1875, at a meeting held at the Fleece Hotel in Selkirk

Selkirk

Selkirk, a royal burgh in the heart of the Scotland Scottish Borders, lies on the River Ettrick, a tributary of the River Tweed. At the time of the 2008 census, Selkirk's population was 17,839....
on the Scottish Borders

Scottish Borders

The Scottish Borders , often referred to simply as the Borders, is one of 32 local government Council areas of Scotland of Scotland. It is bordered by Dumfries and Galloway in the west, South Lanarkshire and West Lothian in the north west, City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian to the north; and the Metropolitan and non-metropolit...
, the Dandie Dinmont Terrier Club was formed. It is one of the oldest pedigree breed club

Breed club (dog)

A dog breed club is an association or club of Animal fancy of a single, specific dog breed of dog.Breed clubs define the breed with which the club is associated in a document called a breed standard , although there may be multiple breed clubs for the same breed, each defining the breed in a somewhat different manner....
s in the world.

The first task was to draw up a breed standard

Breed standard (dogs)

A breed standard in the animal fancy is a set of guidelines covering specific externally observable qualities such as appearance, movement, and temperament for that dog breed....
and Mr William Wardlaw Reed, a founder member of the DDTC. worked on this, smoothing out the many differences. The following year at the Red Lion Hotel, Carlisle, the standard was agreed and adopted.

The breed was first registered with the American Kennel Club

American Kennel Club

The American Kennel Club is a breed registry of purebred dog pedigree in the United States. Beyond maintaining its pedigree registry, this kennel club also promotes and sanctions events for purebred dogs, including the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, an annual event which predates the official forming of the AKC, the National Dog Show, an...
(AKC) in 1888. The Dandie Dinmont Terrier was recognized by the United Kennel Club

United Kennel Club

The United Kennel Club is the second oldest all-breed breed registry of purebred dog pedigrees in the United States and the second largest in the world....
(UKC) in 1918.

Today the Dandie Dinmont is amongst the rarest and most endangered of all pure breeds/pedigree dogs. The UK Kennel Club list the Dandie as one of the UK's Vulnerable Native Dog Breeds and there is a very real chance of the breed becoming extinct.

External links

Dandie Dinmont Terrier Clubs

Dandie Dinmont Terrier Information Sites