English White Terrier
The now extinct English White Terrier, along with the English Bulldog, was one of the foundational dogs of the Boston Terrier. They were shown in England from about 1864 until 1894. Rawdon Briggs Lee, an English dog breeder and writer on dogs, describes the breed as:
“the most fragile and delicate of all our terriers…” but he “makes a nice house dog” although he “requires a considerable amount of cuddling and care.” Like many terriers of this era, the English White Terrier was mostly too large to be a working terrier. Strictly speaking, a terrier had to be small enough to fit into a badger’s or fox’s hole without touching the sides to allow airflow and avoid asphyxiation.