This is the terrier group of dog breeds
Airedale Terrier
The Airedale Terrier, the "King of Terriers," is brimming with personality. He has the trademark terrier temperament: energetic, curious, feisty, and boisterous.
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American Staffordshire Terrier
The American Staffordshire Terrier is a people-oriented dog who thrives when he is part of a family. They are intelligent, graceful, loyal, feisty, courageous, and very, very strong.
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Australian Terrier
The Australian Terrier is tough, feisty, tenacious, energetic, intelligent, boisterous, adaptable, and agile. He is a touch mischievous with the courage of a much larger dog.
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Bedlington Terrier
The Bedlington Terrier is an adaptable, versatile, affectionate, and entertaining dog. He is determined, inquisitive, opinionated, feisty, and fearless.
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Border Terrier
The Border Terrier is a hardy little dog who will want to be part of your family. They are not as feisty as other terrier breeds, but they do still have a mind of their own.
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Bull Terrier
The Bull Terrier is known as the "three-year-old child in a dog suit." These dogs are active, happy, clownish, and extremely attached to their owners and family.
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Cairn Terrier
Everybody loves Toto, right? What a trooper that dog was, keeping up on the Yellow Brick Road! Like him, Cairn Terriers are independent little bundles of energy.
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Dandie Dinmont Terrier
The Dandie Dinmont Terrier is a sweet and hardy dog with lots of personality and pluck. He shows incredible loyalty to his owner, and is utterly devoted to his family.
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German Shorthaired Pointer
The German Shorthaired Pointer is primarily a hunting dog, is bred for that purpose, and so will have a high level of energy that needs to be channeled in a healthy way.
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Glen of Imaal Terrier
The Glen of Imaal Terrier is active, docile, spirited, gentle, and affectionate. He is easygoing and less easily excited than other terrier breeds. Glens adore people.
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Irish Terrier
The Irish Terrier has earned the nickname "Daredevil." He was originally bred to be a family pet, guard dog, and hunter -- the complete package.
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Kerry Blue Terrier
Kerry Blue Terriers are lively and entertaining dogs, energetic and fun loving, boisterous and playful. They have a unique sense of humor and will consciously try to make you laugh when you are sad.
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Lakeland Terrier
The Lakeland Terrier has the trademark terrier temperament: alert, inquisitive, feisty, bossy, bold, and boisterous.
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Standard Manchester Terrier
The Manchester Terrier is alert, energetic, brave, feisty, and extraordinarily loyal. They quickly form strong bonds with their owners.
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Toy Manchester Terrier
The Toy Terrier is alert, energetic, brave, feisty, and extraordinarily loyal. They quickly form strong bonds with their owners.
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Miniature Bull Terrier
The Miniature Bull Terrier is an active, playful, courageous, spirited, fun-loving dog who always needs to be doing something.
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Miniature Schnauzer
The Miniature Schnauzer has the typical terrier temperament: relentless, energetic, brave, alert, curious, scrappy, bossy, and feisty. He's also friendly and willing to please you.
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Norfolk Terrier
The Norfolk Terrier is alert, active, energetic, fearless, feisty, sociable and charming. They are assertive without being aggressive, and unlike many terrier breeds, usually get along with other dogs.
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Norwich Terrier
Norwich Terriers have the terrier spirit without the quarrelsome nature. These tiny terriers are energetic, happy, feisty, wonderfully affectionate, remarkably intelligent, adaptable, fearless and loyal.
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Parson Russell Terrier
The Parson Russell Terrier is a feisty, alert, bold, outgoing little guy who acts like he's trying to steal your heart. He is friendly to his people -- not so much with other dogs.
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Scottish Terrier
The Scottish Terrier is a lot of personality in a little body: brave, curious, feisty, and opinionated. He's the only breed to live in the White House three times.
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Sealyham Terrier
The Sealyham Terrier is the couch potato of the terrier world... he loves to lay around and take naps.
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Skye Terrier
The Skye Terrier has a typical terrier temperament: courageous, canny, strong, and independent. He is fiercely loyal to those he loves, but people have to earn his love and respect -- he does not give it freely.
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Smooth Fox Terrier
The Smooth Fox Terrier is a very active dog with lots of energy. He's always in motion doing something or getting into mischief. They are intelligent, independent, crafty, and will try to outsmart you.
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Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier
The Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier is formidable, energetic, determined, bossy, feisty, scrappy and fearless. His prey-drive is high and he will chase anything that moves.
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Staffordshire Bull Terrier
The Staffordshire Bull Terrier is a true people-dog. He loves people, all people, especially children. His tolerance of and patience with children has earned him the nickname "The Nanny Dog."
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Welsh Terrier
The Welsh Terrier is a fun, zippy, feisty fellow who is the calmest of the terrier breeds. Yet he is always on the lookout for action and entertainment.
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West Highland White Terrier
Often known as the "Westie," the West Highland White Terrier possesses the classic terrier temperament: active, spunky, energetic, and self-important!
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Wire Fox Terrier
The Wire Fox Terrier has the trademark terrier temperament: energetic, fearless, playful, inquisitive, feisty, bossy, and boisterous. This is a very high-energy dog.
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