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Welcome to Roberta C. Collectable gifts for dog lovers. We specialize in dog art including Border Terrier Custom Dog Portraits on Canvas, dog prints, dog breed prints, limited edition print, tee shirts, sweatshirts. We also offer custom dog portraits in oil from your favorite photograph. The folowing Border Terrier Custom Dog Portraits on Canvas for those who love the breed: Border Terrier is a Custom Dog Portraits on Canvas that you will cherrish and display proudly.
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Pricing for:
Border Terrier Custom Dog Portraits on Canvas
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| | Each Additional Dog |
| | 8" x 10" | $400 | | $100 |
| | 12" x 16" | $650 | | $150 |
| | 18" x 24" | $750 | | $150 |
| | 20" x 24" | $850 | | $200 |
| | 24" x 36" | $1200 | | $200 |
| | 30" x 40" | $1500 | | $200 |
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A Sample of Roberta's Work
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Interesting Breed information about Breed: Border Terrier
A Border Terrier is a small, rough-coated breed of dog in the terrier family.
Appearance
The Border Terrier has a double coat consisting of a soft undercoat and harsh, wiry outer coat. Colours include grizzle and tan (a sort of salt and pepper look), blue and tan (sometimes looks almost black), red grizzle, and less commonly, wheaten. The coat should be stripped by hand (not clipped) regularly, as the top coat becomes long and shaggy and eventually dies. Borders being shown generally have a short coat that has been stripped and is starting to grow back. Never clip a border terrier, except around the face area where there are scraggy bits of hair. Clipping a Border Terrier's coat around its back may ruin its fur and make it go curly. After clipping, a Border Terrier's coat may never return to normal.
Temperament
Border Terriers are friendly, smart, energetic and playful. They can make good family pets as they are generally good with children. They are best kept by people who have had dogs before and know how to maintain human social dominance over them. Since they are highly energetic dogs, they require a lot of attention and activity. If their owners cannot give them a lot of attention, they are best kept with other dogs of similar temperament. Border Terriers are relatively easily trained, although they can develop a cat-like independence. Some members of the breed make a highly effective alternative to a doorbell, due to their sharp hearing and the distinctive frenzied barking that results when they hear someone approaching the door.
Behaviour with other dogs
Red grizzle border terrier bitchBorder Terriers generally get on well with other dogs, and often develop strong friendships with dogs they meet frequently. However, if they dislike another dog, they do not hesitate to start a fight and, as with most terriers, it can be difficult to stop them. A squirt from a water gun can be an effective way to end a fight. Border Terriers must be trained carefully from the beginning to learn proper social behaviour with other dogs, especially larger dogs.
They are best kept in pairs or small groups, or with dogs of other breeds. Ideal canine companions include other Border Terriers, Collies, and most Spaniels. When kept in a group, they can have difficulty recognising that each dog has a different name (they occasionally respond to them all). Border Terriers have dominant personalities and often occupy a high position in the 'pack', subordinate to the owner. This is especially true for adult Border Terriers when a puppy is added to the group. If a large adult dog comes into the family, the Border Terrier will test his new companion, maintaining his leadership if there is no objection from the larger dog.
Behaviour with other animals
Border Terriers are generally unsuitable for homes where there are rabbits, cats (except Maine Coons), smaller breeds of dogs, or other similar pets, as they will attack and kill all animals smaller than themselves; they were bred for this purpose. They may, however, accept small animals they grow up with.
Chewing
Border Terriers are strong chewers and tend to destroy all but the most durable toys. They can remove the squeak from a squeaky toy within 30 seconds, and reduce such toys to fragments within a matter of minutes. Solid, tough rubber toys such as rubber rings are suitable. If a Border Terrier adopts a household object as a toy, the object will soon be ruined.
Health
Border Terriers are generally hardy and long-lived dogs with few health problems. However, they have a very high resistance to pain and will very often appear healthy even when injured or sick. Consequently, any sign of illness should be taken seriously. Due to their low percentage of body fat, Border Terriers are very sensitive to anesthetics. Therefore, Border Terrier owners should select a veterinarian that is aware of this and is cautious in administering anesthesia.
Due to their instinct to kill and consume smaller animals, Border Terriers often destroy, and sometimes eat, toys that are insufficiently robust. Indigestion resulting from eating a toy can cause the appearance of illness. Typical symptoms include lethargy, unwillingness to play, a generally 'unhappy' appearance, lack of reaction to affection, and inability or unwillingness to sleep. These symptoms are generally very noticeable, however, they are also present just prior to Border Terrier bitches being on heat. Food-grade liquid paraffin is often an effective solution to digestive problems caused by the consumption of dog toys. This problem can be avoided by giving the Border Terrier only durable toys.
Border Terriers occasionally have genetic health problems. Some of these include:
Hip dysplasia
Perthes disease
Luxating patella
Various heart defects
Juvenile cataracts
Progressive retinal atrophy
Seizures
CECS (Canine Eptiloid Cramping Syndrome [1]
Reliable breeders check all breeding stock for as many of these as possible before breeding.
History
The breed was developed for fox hunting in the area around the border of England and Scotland.\
Though some claim an ancient history for the Border Terrier, no breed of terrier is very old and the Border Terrier is no exception, first appearing around 1860, and being so undifferentiated from other rough-coated terriers that they were not admitted to the UK Kennel Club until 1920 -- after first being rejected in 1914.
The true history of the Border Terrier is exceedingly short and simple despite all the efforts to muddy the water with talk of Walter Scott, Bedlingtons, gypsies, and dark dogs seen in the muddy corners of obscure oil paintings.
The Border Terrier was a kennel type of rough-coated terrier of the Fell type bred by the Robson family. John Robson founded the Border Hunt in Northumberland in 1857 along with John Dodd of Catcleugh who hunted his hounds near the Carter Fell. It was the grandson's of these two gentlemen -- Jacob Robson and John Dodd -- who tried to get the Border Hunt's little terrier-type popularized by the Kennel Club.
The first Kennel Club Border Terrier ever registered was The Moss Trooper, a dog sired by Jacob Robinson's Chip in 1912 and registered in the Kennel Club's Any Other Variety listing in 1913. The Border Terrier was rejected for formal Kennel Club recognition in 1914, but won its slot in 1920, with the first standard being written by Jacob Robinson and John Dodd. Jasper Dodd was made first President of the Club.
For a terrier bred to follow the horses the Border Terrier does not appear to have been overly-popular among the mounted hunts. The Border Terrier Club of Great Britain[2] lists only 190 working certificates for all borders from 1920 to 2004 -- a period of 84 years. Considering that there were over 250 mounted hunts operating in the UK during most of this period (there are about 185 mounted hunts today), this is an astoundingly small number of certificates for a period that can be thought of as being over 15,000 hunt-years long. Even if one concedes that borders were worked outside of the mounted hunts, and not all borders got certificates that were recorded by the Border Terrier Club of Great Britain, the base number is so slow that adding a generous multiplier does not change the broad thrust of the conclusion, which is that Boder Terriers never really had a hay day for work.
The relative lack of popularity of the Border Terrier as a working terrier is borne out by a careful review of Jocelyn Lucas' book Hunt and Working Terriers (1931). In Appendix I Lucas provides a table listing 119 UK hunts operating in the 1929-1930 season, along with the types of earths found (sandy, rocky, etc.) and the type of terrier used.
Only 16 hunts said they used Borders or Border crosses, while about 80 hunts said they prefered Jack Russells, white terriers or some type of fox terrier. Lakelands and Sealhams, or crosses thereof, were mentioned by some, with quite a few noting no preference(hunts are double-counted if they mention two kinds of terriers or crosses of two types).
The Border Terrier does not appear to be fairing any better today, with even fewer workers found in the field than in Lucas' times. In fact, there is not a single Border Terrier breed book that shows a border terrier with its fox -- an astounding thing considering the age of the breed and the ubiquitous nature of the camera from the 1890s forward.
To say that the Border is not popular in the field does not mean that it has fallen out of favor in the show ring or in the pet trade, however! Border terriers are among the top 10 breeds in the UK Kennel Club, and nearly 1,000 border terriers were registered with the American Kennel Club last year -- up about 100 dogs from the previous year.
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