ABOUT THE CLUB

Founded in 1885, was the first specialty club to become a member of the American Kennel Club in 1888.
​There are two Fox Terrier breeds, Smooth Fox Terriers and Wire Fox Terriers.
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Fox Terriers are outgoing, alert, active dogs, originally bred to be independent hunters. Although Fox Terriers have minds of their own, they are very affectionate and companionable. With their intelligence and determination, Fox Terriers careers today include obedience and agility winners, search and rescue, drug detection and circus performer as well as service dogs for the disabled. They love the spotlight and have appeared in many films, TV shows and commercials. Fox Terriers are a high energy breed, very lively, cheerful and funny. But after running and playing, they will sleep all night on your bed or cuddle next to you on the couch watching TV. Fox Terriers from reputable breeders are extremely healthy and hardy.

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Club History

The American Fox Terrier Club was founded in 1885 after a meeting of six gentlemen at Madison Square Garden.  The club seal was adopted in 1886 and displayed in the catalogue of the 1887 Specialty Show.  Its designer is unknown, but August Belmont, Edward Kelly and Fred Hoey brought the sketch to be approved by Lewis Rutherfurd, “a fine American gentleman who loved all sorts of sports with a horse and a dog,” over dinner at his New Jersey home in the fall of 1886.  Along with the motto Fides et Audax (“faithful and bold”) the seal carries the inscription “How happy could I be with either”.  The angry cat atop the doghouse parodies the sentiments of MacKnfyfe, hero of John Gray’s “The Beggar’s Opera,” as he is besieged be two rival beauties, each of whom wants him all to herself.