Bedlington Terrier

FCI №9

Bedlington Terrier - old enough breed. It has been bred in England approximately 200 years ago. The first, whom mention in connection with delution of rotberi-terriers (the ancient name the Bedlington of a terrier), was a certain James Pajper Allen.

He was born in 1720 in the Gipsy camp ranging in those days near of border of England and Scotland. Inveterate hunter James has become famous for that held terriers specially for the favourite hunting for otters.

Its dogs shared on two phylums: long-legged and short-legged. It is considered that the first were ancestors of Bedlington terriers, and from the last there were dandies-dinmont-terriers. Rotberijsky terriers possessed many excellent working qualities. They were used for hunting for a badger, persecution of rats, by hunting for jackrabbits and feral rabbits and besides on trot race.

Capable terriers became very popular among farmers taking a great interest in hunting, shallow shopkeepers, miners and the small estate noblemen living in vicinities of miner's small town the Bedlington in which honour breed and has received the definitive name in 1825.

Bedlington Terrier

Very first of known ancestors of a Bedlington name a terrier on a name of Old the Flint born in 1782 and belonging to Travelinum. And the dog of a light brown colour on a name Young Pajper, born in 1820 and belonging to James Ejnsli became the first Bedlington with its modern name. (Bedlingtons of a blue colour have appeared later, in the end of a XIX-th century).

In 60-70th years of XIX century for breed formation it has been much made by T.Dzh. Riketom to which among the other posessed three outstanding dogs of those years: Secrets, Tiarem and Tyneside.

In 1867 the standard of a Bedlington terrier strikes root. The same year at an exhibition in Bedlingtone Tiarem city became best of 52 for the first time the Bedlingtons introduced on it.


In 1935 there was a herdbook in which its composer Redmarshall has included Bedlingtons all known and living at that time in England. This book has been republished today. Having added and having supplied with comments, it was included in the book which has come out in 1990 by a Bedlington Terrier; the English expert and the expert on breed of Ken Baunden.

Besides in the book the list of English champions for all time of existence of breed and a photo of some of them, in particular variety of representatives (with 1944 for 1975) known and considerably affected breed development abroad nursery Foggifez is resulted.

Among them the repeated champion and the famous sire Foggifez the Classic (1954) whom and now English experts on breed include in a three of the best at all times Bedlingtons. Besides National Bedlington-terrier-club and Midland-club in 1934 in England it is framed Aссоциация fans of Bedlington terriers (Bedlington Terrier Association). Fans of breed enter Into it from all over the world.

Association, having set as the purpose breed conservation, is engaged in carrying out of exhibitions, has service of salvage of dogs and search of new owners, publishes the data about new scats and acquaints factory owners with the future buyers. By it the bulletin twice a year is issued, seminars are held. In Association the subcommittee for the control over genetical disease of a liver (Copper Toxicosis), found in Bedlingtons in many western countries works.

To England a dog which were not tested on this disease (a liver biopsy), are not supposed to a livestock breeding. The chairman of Association now is Ken Baunden time and again making examination of Bedlington terriers and at our exhibitions.