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The Westie was recognized in England by The Kennel Club as a separate breed in
1907, and by the American Kennel Club in 1909.
How the Skye Terrier got to Scotland no one knows, Legend is that a
Maltese and a Poodle were shipwrecked on the Isle of Skye. Around
the time
the Spanish Armada met its doom. All terriers from Scotland are they're descendants,
during Queen Elizabeth's reign. It is a matter of record that her
successor, James 1, wrote to Edinburgh to ask that 6 Terriers from
Argyllshire be sent to France as a present.
Not only that, he also directed they be sent on two or more ships for fear
of shipwreck, regarding them as valuable.
The name 'Sierra' is a Latin word for Terrier, which means earth, These
breeds were, in the old days, called "earth dogs" because when
chasing Rabbits they burrowed deep into they're holes, an expression known
to hunters as "going to earth."
The Westie was also known as the Pittenweem, Roseneath or Poltallock
Terrier.
A 1839 picture owned by Sir Edward Landseer showed two dogs one a
bloodhound and the other a Westie.
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