Dogs of the type "terrier" have ancient origins: at the time of the Roman conquest of Britain, as Arrian in his "commentary" (55 BC), the Terriers were used for hunting in lair.
Arrian calls themAgassin"," while it is in the middle ages that Dr. Caius in his "Canibus Britannicis," defines them for the first time "Terrars" and defines them great hunters in lair, but also dear exterminators mice. Heroin ' 700 hunting was considered elite sport and as such was practiced only by nobles and landowners. The lower classes, the nobility forbade a decree, which also included a ban on owning dogs from hunting.
Peasants, however, was allowed to keep small dogs, … (rats were a veritable social plague, destroying the scarce food resources of the poorer classes and bringing diseases). Become famous thanks to ratting Terriers, small peasants were required also by the nobility for hunting Fox, who had taken the place of deer hunting (dismissed from its habitat due to agricultural progress and the beginning of industrial development).
According to the few evidences Trump was at short leg and torso, with long, shaggy white coat, black ears and brown specks on the tip of the tail. Certainly Trump set off a breeding programme which, according to Russell would bring dogs very nimble and snappy, aggressive and combative and very low limbs (to facilitate entry into the burrow and allow the dog to follow the Fox also meanders and tunnels that burrowwhat the terrier then couldn't do).
Jack Russell Terrier originated in Devonshire, in England, in 1800 for merit of the work of the Reverend John Russell who selected a type of Terrier suitable to run with its Foxhound and able to penetrate in tana, creating a race with the aptitude for hunting. The final push came when Russell came into possession of the "mythical" dog named Trump, whose ability to Huntress Reverend fell deeply in love to the point of deciding to engage in the reproduction of copies of the same features, making pair Trump with Fox Terrier (soon were inserted bloodlines ofldogbulthe laterbeagle, Border Terrier and Lakeland terrier). Ensued two varieties, generally similar except for some differences in the proportions: the highest now known asParson Russell Terrier, adapted to run behind horses in hunting, and lowest (short leg) known as Jack Russell Terrier: copies of "Jack" were brought by horse in Scrip at hunting and released as the Fox had managed to take refuge in the lair. The purpose of this breed was in fact to huntfoxes, rates and rabbits directly into the Lair, as well as all the "Terriers" that are literally "dogs burrow." Very important for the selection of the breed was the greatness of the "span" of the chest or the possibility of holding the hands to do this enter the tana della volpe; the bloodlines reared out from England do not respect this feature sought after and desired in 1800 by Rev. J. Russell. In doing so, in my opinion, perhaps the most intrinsic characteristic of the breed or be a dog by tana; This exasperation of Australian bloodline and similar to having a dog more square, squat and oriented more towards exposures of beauty that not for lair i.e. the real reason for thatthis breed.
Jack Russell Terrier
