Judging the Welsh Terrier
History
Small black and tan dogs were first mentioned in 55 B.C. by Julius Caesar as he sent messages back home. Centuries later when Briton won the war over Wales, those black and tan dogs remained in the northern region of the British Isles.
John Marvin, in his Book of All Terriers, cites a poem written around 1450 which describes a red and black working terrier:
You gave me a dignified (picked)
Stick-and a good bitch,
A black, red-bellied terrier bitch
To Throttle the brown pole-cat
And to tear up the red fox.
It is commonly accepted that this description was of the dog that was to become what we today call a Welsh Terrier. In the mid 1800s, dog shows
