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AHT Standard (August 25, 2005)All drawings are copyrighted to the AHTA,Inc. and may not be reprinted/copied or altered in any manner without written permission.
Illustrator: Jeanne Argostar (www.argostar.com)
Please Note: The drawings represent the "Ideal". We began with a breed that lacked in many areas. They had been bred for lack of hair coat and not conformation. In a few short years there have been dramatic improvemnts but there remain a few areas that will take longer. Breeders have had to make choices as to what needed to be improved upon, one fault and a time.
As you see the breed in the ring please keep in mind this is still a "work in progress" and we have not yet met our Ideal dog
From the Official UKC Standard:
The first American Hairless Terrier, a female named Josephine, was born in 1972, part of a litter of purebred, coated Rat Terriers. The breeder, Edwin Scott, began to develop the breed from Josephine's descendants. Although he never used any dogs but Rat Terriers in his breeding program, it was always Scott's intention for the hairless dogs to be a separate breed. However, in 1999, when United Kennel Club recognized the Rat Terrier, Scott and his fellow breeders agreed to allow the hairless dogs to enter the UKC registry as Rat Terriers, hairless variety. Upon separation, all of the hairless Rat Terriers and all of their coated descendants, products of careful breeding to the finest coated Rat Terriers, were given the name originally chosen for the breed by Edwin Scott: American Hairless Terrier. While it may seem contradictory to have coated dogs in a hairless breed, it will be necessary for the foreseeable future to continue to include some Rat Terrier crosses until there are sufficient hairless dogs to maintain a separate and healthy gene pool. The American Hairless Terrier was recognized by the United Kennel Club on January 1, 2004.
[Credits: UKC Breed Standard, Elliott, Rachel Page, The New Dogsteps, Second Edition, Howell Book House, New York, 1983. Nicholas, Anna Katherine, The Nicholas Guide to Dog Judging, Howell Book House, New York, 1989. Spira, Harold R., Canine Terminology, First Edition, Howell Book House, New York, 1982.] |
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