SKYE TERRIER

The Skye is a dog of extended and robust body, with long head and not very wide, of strong snout. The ears can be raised or hanging, in this last case they will be a little greater. Its neck is long and a little bent, the members as much the previous ones as the later thing are short and musculados. Its ideal height is of 25 to 26 cm. for the males, being slightly inferior in the females and its weight goes up to around the 8 or 9 kg As far as the hair are long, straight and hard and can be of black, gray color dark or clear, color of fawn, cream, all with black marks. Any solid color that has tonalities of the same color and that the color of the hair of the internal layer is clearer, as long as the ears and the nose are black. A small white spot in the chest is allowed.

Its origin goes back to the s. XVI. It is coming from the Scottish island of Skye, where one says that surviving Maltese dogs of a shipwreck crossed themselves terriers native between which were the Irish Terrier and the Scottish Terrier. But it was with this last one with that greater kinship keeps, since, until in 1870 it settled down that it was two different races were catalogued like a unique race.