![]() He is a sturdy dog with a medium length tail which he holds up. Perhaps because of so many genes being involved with this dog, it is more easily identified because of its hunting abilities. The coat of the dog is available in a variety of colors but they are essentially a bi-colored dog such as red and white, tan and white, black and white, while solid colors are fawn, white, light brown, black and brindle too. Standing at about 46cm to 56cm in height and weighing in the region of 10 to 15kg, the Feist is a short haired dog that doesn’t shed much and he is not hypoallergenic. George Washington even referred to them in 1770 already, and the breed was popularized by President Teddy Roosevelt, who hunted with his Feist. ![]() The Feist isn’t a new type of dog and in fact there are records of the dog which go back centuries. It is believed that these Terriers included crosses between several terriers – the Manchester Terriers, Smooth Fox Terrier and English White Terrier – dogs used as ratters and known for their skills in killing rats. The Feist is a small dog from the United States, coming from Terrier dogs which were brought over to the States. ![]() This entry was posted in Feist and tagged Feist, Rat Terrier, Teddy Roosevelt Terrier. Image: Treeing Feist photo found on Pinterest unattributed, but happily credited upon receipt of information Whatever their name, feists have in common some terrier in their ancestry, a strong prey drive, a diminutive size with tremendous agility, and a ton of personality. The breed is also known as the American Feist.īeyond that, there are a whole lot of feists out there (and we haven’t included canines known as “squirrel dogs,” but regarded as feists): Only the Treeing Feist has been recognized as an identifiable breed with “feist” in its name by the United Kennel Club, this happening in 1998. The Rat Terrier, too, is considered by some to be a feist, and in fact, some believe it to be the progenitor of, and a specific breed within, the feist type. The “Teddy Roosevelt Terrier,” for example, was once called the B ench-Legged Feist, and to our knowledge, it’s the only breed to be recognized by the AKC that had “feist” in its name once upon a time. A couple of AKC and UKC breeds are considered feists, and the names of some breeds once included the word “feist.” One still does. Neither is it true that feists haven’t made it to the show ring. Consequently, some people are of the belief that there is little to no consistency among these dogs. ![]() Today, most feists are bred solely for their hunting ability by individuals with zero interest in a show ring. The word “ feist” as it pertains to a type of dog, however, never vanished. After a while, the word was used to describe an excitable, spirited dog, and ” feisty” came to be used for people with similar temperaments. Feist and fist were also used to identify dogs, as in “fisting or foisting hounds.” Like the word, “cur,” feist came to be used as an insult in the 16th and 17th centuries, and by the 1800s, it was used to describe small hunting dogs, particularly in the American South. The meanings of fist and fisting as a way to describe the foul emission of air from one’s backside fell out of use, but it gave rise to a related word, feist, which in some contexts had the same or similar meaning as fist. Back in the day, fist, could mean one of two things: Either it referred to “a breaking of wind, a foul smell,” and “to break wind,” or it was the word for a clenched hand. The word, feisty, however, didn’t always mean what it does today, and we doubt anyone would appreciate being called “feisty” if it did.įeisty comes to us from the 15th century, a descendant of the English word, fist. We all know someone who is feisty, and probably a dog, as well. ![]()
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