Perro Ratonero Andalluz

Description

This small sized breed is always tri-colored (a solid white body with a black & tan head) and has a short smooth coat. Typical of the terriers, the Perro Ratonero Andaluz is very active, lively, tenacious.  They are nervous good guardians and sweet with people, but have a strong prey-instinct.  They are also very fast and agile dogs and are used for killing vermin such as rats and mice, in horse stables and in Andalusian cave homes. The very rare breed may have descended from a fusion between old British Terriers-types (similar to today's Fox and Jack Russell Terriers, that the English brought to vineyards of Jerez de La Frontera-which is where Sherry comes from-in the region of Andalusia, Southern Spain, during the wine exploitations) and the "Raterillo", a local/native breed related to the Miniature Podenco Andaluz (a breed similar to the Miniature Portuguese Podengo or Podengo Pequeno. This breed needs to be taken on a daily, brisk, long walk or jog.

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