We mourned the passing of Kermit. He was a great dog even if he never lived up to the rat terrier breed's reputation as an excellent farm dog choice. My family has had rat terriers going back to my grandfather Carl. Kermit was named after Teddy Roosevelt's son, not the frog. T.R. popularized these little working dogs and at one time they were the most common breed in the Midwest (growing prosperity after WW II led to a bourgeois trend towards attractive dogs over working dogs).
Another popular image of the rat terrier comes from the RCA advertising:
I had to take Ben to town for a birthday party and had to kill an hour with the other kids, so we stopped at the SPCA. I had no intention of adopting a new dog, but they had a rat terrier who was very gentle with the kids. So we have a new addition to the family: Laika.
She's not trained, but she is very good with the kids and does having the ratting instinct.We named her after the rat terrier mutnik who opened the space race with Sputnik.
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