The Glen of Imaal Terrier has a rich history that stems from the Emerald Isle and joined other AKC-recognized Irish Terriers in 2004.

The original Sealyham Terrier history starts with a captain and Otterhounds to eventual recognition from the American Kennel Club.

The Skye Terrier was used as a working dog in Scotland as early as the 1600s. Learn more about this breed's surprising history.

There is, carved into a Scottish Highlands farm wall, the image of a short-legged, longheaded, prick-eared, cobbily built dog barking on a wheelbarrow. The image appears to date from around A.D. 200, and is about three-eighths of an inch in diameter, small enough that the viewer cannot make out if the dog is double-coated or […]

Frantisek Horak, the creator of the Cesky Terrier persevered through World War II and a communist revolution to create the new hunting breed.

As legend has it, the roots of the Kerry Blue Terrier harken back to the Spanish Armada. Learn more about the history of the Kerry Blue Terrier.

The Yorkshire Terrier is associated with the County of York in northern England. But the breed's roots actually go further back.

One of the most famous dogs in movie history is little Toto, following Dorothy along the yellow brick road to see the wizard of Oz. Toto was played by a Cairn Terrier named Terry. You might think every little wire-haired terrier you see is a Cairn, but in fact there is a similar breed called […]

The Dandie Dinmont Terrier owes its name – and arguably its continued existence – to a peripheral character in an 1815 novel.

Though we often don’t think about them in this way, dogs are really about people — those long-ago (or, sometimes, not so long-ago) figures who developed particular breeds for particular tasks. Some breeds — like the Doberman Pinscher, Teddy Roosevelt Terrier, and Cesky Terrier — owe their existence to just one visionary person. Other breeds were brought into being […]