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AKC Terrier · UKC Terrier
Teddy Roosevelt Terrier.
UKC: a short-legged, strongly built small hunting terrier, evaluated as a working terrier with the speed, agility and strength for the work; originally bred for ratting and farm work, a multipurpose companion capable of hunting above or below ground and treeing small game, but not spanned nor sparred. AKC history: instinctive nature to chase vermin and rats above and below ground..
Breed sets the odds. The parents set the dog. Every number here shows its source, its spread and how sure we are. Nothing on this page is a prediction about one dog.
The body
What the breed is built like. Registry standards give an ideal, not a range.
Height at the shoulder
Center left blank: no ideal printed. Low/high span the UKC 8-12 and the AKC 8-14. The AKC official standard PDF returned access-denied, so the AKC figure is from its breed page and history article.
Weight
Only the AKC figure is printed.
Coat
Shedding
AKC breed page trait score, 1 to 5: a breed-club tendency, never a measurement.
Heat tolerance
Derived from the coat description (short dense = 4 on the ruled scale). No measured data.
The dog at home
What the breed asks of a day. The first thing most homes get wrong.
Energy
AKC scores are the AKC's own 1-5 bands, not a measurement.
Grooming load
AKC breed page trait score, 1 to 5: a breed-club tendency, never a measurement.
Grooming
AKC's own band, not a measurement; no Royal Kennel Club page.
The work
What it was built to do in the field, and what a test or trial asks of it.
Role
Primary game
The UKC names no single primary quarry beyond ratting.
Also used on
AKC's truffle remark is companion-sport color, not hunting use.
Search pattern
The standard speaks of announcing strangers, not of voice on a game line. No source states treeing voice, range, or pack versus single work.
Field trial standard
AKC editorial on events the breed takes part in, not a trial standard. No squirrel or treeing test is named for this breed.
More
akc bands
Fourteen AKC bands in one row; the selector reads each by name. Breed-club ratings: a tendency, never a measurement.
How to read this page
Every value carries a label. Measured means peer-reviewed data on many dogs. Studied means peer-reviewed, smaller or indirect. Breed club means a club or registry states it. Editorial means expert opinion with no measurement behind it. Where two good sources disagree, both are shown and neither is averaged.
Published when the entry rests on the best information available from no fewer than three independent sources, checked by a second pass that did not write it. 3 sources on this page. Found something wrong? Tell us and the correction is logged with its date.
- Also called
- Teddy, Type B Rat Terrier, Short-legged Rat Terrier, Bench-legged Feist
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