Border Terrier archive tees, sweatshirts and hoodies

Narrow enough to follow a fox underground and long enough in the leg to keep up with a horse: the Border Terrier was built to those two demands on the Cheviot hills, working alongside the Border foxhounds in Northumberland and the Scottish Borders. It came late to the Kennel Club, in 1920, largely because the farmers and hunt servants who kept it saw no reason to bother. The otter head is a real distinction rather than a fancier's phrase, and so is the harsh double coat, which sheds mud by itself but wants hand stripping twice a year. Owners get a terrier without the edges: game outside, entirely civil indoors. The plate leans on the head, since that otter shape separates the breed from every other working terrier at a glance.