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History of the miniature schnauzer
At the end of the XIX century in
Germany as a
result of the foundation of the PSK (Pinscher Schnauzer Klub) the
Although the aknowledgment of the
schnauzer standard is led back to that supplied in
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acknowledgement
of the schnauzer as a race was obtained. From then
thanks
to
the selective breeding of the dog with scientific methods and above all to
the keens will a progressive development of
the schnauzer had been operated. This has concurred to carry the breed to the actual standards.
the
1895 from the
PSK,
really the history has left us signs of their origin in antecedent date. In
fact dogs similar to the schnauzer appear in some paintings of the XV
century, in sculptures of the XIV century and also hunting
scenes are described in some texts in which are uses dogs with
characteristics similar to the schnauzer. The history of the schnauzer
developes in parallel with the one of the pincher, in fact today in Germany 
the
specialistic club of the two breeds works still in common. Initially both
the breeds was defined pinscher
and only differed for the quality of the coat so they was called pinscher
with
hard
coat
(schnauzer) and pinscher
with soft coat (pinscher).
The term "pinscher"
in
german means
dog by rat and
that is due to the detached attitude that these dogs had to the hunting
of small rodents. This their
dowry was often exploited to organize true "gamings-houses" in which dogs
fight in a bull-ring against hotdes of rats and people bet on the number of
rodents that the dog succeeded to kill. As has initially been pointed out,
with the birth of the PSK we had the acknowledgment of the schnauzer as a
breed,
but the actual name will be assigned to it only in the XX century when the
breeders will begin to select pinscher with hard coat and beard. In fact the
term schnauzer means "long beard" and refers to this its
characteristic. The Birth of the PSK in 1895 will mark therefore an
important step in the increase and the development of the breed because it
will give origin to the first reunions of passionates and breeders
from which will originate the standards of the schnauzer before and
zwergschnauzer (minature schnauzer) then. The last standard written out will
be that of the riesen schnauzer (giant schnauzer). The rest is history of
our days.