![]() Although they tend to be aloof with strangers, they are devoted companion dogs with a strong desire to please and be near their owners at all times. Maximizing the influences from these various breeds provides the modern Teddy Roosevelt Terrier with a keen sense of awareness and prey drive, an acute sense of smell. These early ratting terriers were then most likely bred to the Beagle or Beagle crossbred dogs (for increased scenting ability) and other dogs. The Feist (dog), Bull Terrier, Smooth Fox Terrier, Manchester Terrier, Whippet, Italian Greyhound, the now extinct English White Terrier, Turnspit Dog, and Wry-legged Terrier all share in the Teddy Roosevelt Terrier's ancestry. Since the breed was a farm, hunting, and utility dog, little to no planned breeding was used other than breeding dogs with agreeable traits to each other to produce the desired work ethic in the dog. The Rat Terrier's background is said to stem from the terriers or other dogs that were brought over by early English and other working-class immigrants. Much diversity exists in the history of the Teddy Roosevelt Terrier breed, and it shares a common early history with the American Rat Terrier, Fox Paulistinha, and Tenterfield Terrier. It is lower-set, with shorter legs, and is more muscular with heavier bone density than the related American Rat Terrier. The Teddy Roosevelt Terrier is a small to medium-sized American hunting terrier. The breed was popularized by President Teddy Roosevelt, who frequently hunted with a feist named Skip, belonging to his son, Archie, and a Manchester Terrier named Jack, belonging to his son, Kermit. ![]() Claude Shumate, who wrote about the feist for Full Cry magazine, believed that the feist was descended from Native American dogs, mixed with small terriers from Britain, and was kept as early as the 17th century ( Full Cry, December, 1987). In her 1938 novel The Yearling, author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings uses the spelling of 'feist' to refer to this dog. William Faulkner mentions the 'fice dog' in The Sound and the Fury, but uses the spelling 'fyce' in the stories 'Was' and 'The Bear' from the collection Go Down, Moses: 'a brave fyce dog is killed by a bear'. George Washington referred to them in his diary in 1770 when describing a dog as 'a small feist-looking yellow cur.' Abraham Lincoln wrote about the 'fice' dog in his poem, 'The Bear Hunt'. Written accounts of the dogs go back centuries, with several spelling variations seen.
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