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Colonel Malcolm, of Poltalloch, who is recognised as the great authority on the breed, lays stress upon the quality of the coat.
There can be no question that these dogs, which are so typically Highland in character and appearance, as well as the Clydesdale, the Scottish, the Dandie Dinmont, and the White Poltalloch terriers, are all the descendants of a purely native Scottish original. They are all inter-related; but which was the parent breed it is impossible to determine.
Still, the quantity of white in the existing terriers all through the west coast of Scotland shows that it must have been rather a favoured colour. White West Highland Terriers were kept at Poltalloch sixty years ago, and so they were first shown as Poltalloch Terriers.
She did so now, no doubt, as she bowed. 'Dreadfully tahsome, this muzzling order, she said, originally. 'We have two Pekingese, a King Charles, and a pug, and their poor little faces don't fit any muzzle that's made. I answered with some inanity about my mother's Poltalloch, and we talked for a moment. Suddenly I felt her wanting badly to tell me the news about Jane.
We have seen the process of a sudden leap into recognition enacted during the past few years in connection with the white terrier of the Western Highlands a dog which was familiarly known in Argyllshire centuries ago, yet which has only lately emerged from the heathery hillsides around Poltalloch to become an attraction on the benches at the Crystal Palace and on the lawns of the Botanical Gardens; and the example suggests the possibility that in another decade or so the neglected Sealyham Terrier, the ignored terrier of the Borders, and the almost forgotten Jack Russell strain, may have claimed a due recompense for their long neglect.
There are many more local varieties of the working terrier as, for example, the Roseneath, which is often confused with the Poltalloch, or White West Highlander, to whom it is possibly related. And the Pittenweem, with which the Poltalloch Terriers are now being crossed; while Mrs.
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