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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 acknowledgment 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.