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Originally Posted by jencar98  Dog showing started with the wealthy?
I don't know but would have expected the first yorkies shown to come from working class type people. Isn't the history that small dogs were the only dogs poorer people were allowed to have and that was to chase off vermin from the farms and factories?
I found this website page interesting: Political and Environmental History of Terriers
Dog shows were a way for the newly emerging middle class in the UK and the United States to try to bestow status, prestige and exclusivity on themselves. Most terrier breeds were either created or "improved and standardized" at this time. -- a direct result of the selective breeding practices learned with cattle, sheep, chickens and pigeons. |
..the showing of Yorkies in America, did not start with the Yorkshire men..even in the UK dog shows were a rich mans sport...the poor man was working...in the USA our Yorkies were imported by the rich...who else could afford "such folly"..LOL