Sentences with phrase «smaller toy spaniels»

But other evidence points to crosses of the English cocker with even smaller toy spaniels (that nonetheless arose from the same ancestral stock).

Not exact matches

(9) In 2007, 13 of the top 20 breeds recognized by the American Kennel Club were toys or small dogs, and several other small breeds (French Bulldog, Havanese, Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, and Papillon) have climbed from relative obscurity in 1997 to appear in the top 40.

Its original King Charles Spaniel is actually a hunting dog but later crossbred to become a smaller dog or a toy dog for the royalties.

They began as one breed, probably resulting from crosses of small spaniels with Oriental toy breeds.

These included spitz - breeds, toy dogs, spaniels, Mastiff - like breeds, small terriers, retrievers, herding dogs, scent - hounds, and sight - hounds.

The toy group includes some terriers such as the Yorkie, Manchester, and Toy Fox Terriers, as well as other small dogs including the Toy Poodle, the Havanese, the Maltese, the Chihuahua, and the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.

In the 19th century, in an effort to reduce the size of these dogs and produce a breed with a smaller nose, several types of toy spaniels were crossbred with the Pug and the Japanese Chin.

One of the oldest of the toy breeds, the English Toy Spaniel probably has ancestors from Japan and maybe even China, which bred with European toy spaniels to produce a small, docile dog with a feathery coat and a pushed - in nose.

The European toy dogs were probably the result of breeding small spaniels to Oriental toy breeds such as the Japanese Chin and perhaps the Tibetan spaniel.

These toy spaniels are very popular and easy to keep as they adapt to your lifestyle, making no particular demands; the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel makes for an excellent family pet and is well suited to those with smaller accommodation.

Purebred dogs were also categorized into one of the 11 groupings based upon haplotype sharing as defined in Wayne and VonHoldt (2012)[14](n = 55,353): ancient and spitz (n = 2946), herding (n = 4579), mastiff - like (n = 5548), retriever (n = 18,347), scent hounds (n = 3742), sight hounds (n = 761), small terriers (n = 2534), spaniels (n = 4315), toy (n = 5542), working dogs 1 (poodles and Havanese; n = 1923), and working dogs 2 (n = 5116)(Additional file 1: Table S1 and Additional file 2: Table S2).