Dwarf spaniel

Continental dwarf spaniel (Phalène)

Toy Spaniel is the name for small companion dogs from the Spaniel type. Miniature Spaniels were popular dogs with the nobility . Dogs of this type are shown in pictures from the 13th and 14th centuries. In the 18th century one can distinguish a continental type of the dwarf spaniel from an English type. With the emergence of systematic breeding of pedigree dogs , the continental dwarf spaniel and the English King Charles Spaniel , also known as the English Toy Spaniel (Toy Spaniel), developed from this.

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1542
1737
1750

Web links

Commons : Continental Miniature Spaniel - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

Commons : King Charles Spaniel - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Commons : Cavalier King Charles Spaniel - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ “In Europe itself, too, many new breeds of small companion dogs had emerged since the early Middle Ages. The dogs, which look very similar to today's Papillons, seem to have been particularly popular, because in painting they were increasingly depicted in the company of noble ladies, nuns and rich bourgeois women. ”Erik Zimen: The dog - ancestry, behavior, man and dog . Goldmann, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-442-12397-6 , pp. 166 .

↑ Papillon and Phalène on the website of the Association of German Small Dog Breeders ( VDH / FCI )

[1] “In Europe itself, too, many new breeds of small companion dogs had emerged since the early Middle Ages. The dogs, which look very similar to today's Papillons, seem to have been particularly popular, because in painting they were increasingly depicted in the company of noble ladies, nuns and rich bourgeois women. ”Erik Zimen: The dog - ancestry, behavior, man and dog . Goldmann, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-442-12397-6 , pp. 166 .