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Airedale Terrier

Airedale Terrier

Here is a good video as an introduction to the Airedale Terrier breed.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yWd6_gF5OQ

Personally, I’m on my third Airedale… They’ve all been terrific, but my current one, Oakley is far and away the best!

Oakley, is a Mountain Airedale also known as an Oorang Airedale.

Mountain Airedale

All these two names really do is designate that this type of Airedale is much larger than the official AKC sanctioned Airedale size. My first two Airedale’s for the regular size and now having the larger size ( Oakley is about 85 pounds) I personally believe this is the ideal size for this type of dog.

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Rolf – The Amazing Airedale Terrier

Airedale Terrier Poet

One Very Smart Airedale Terrier

Rolf - Airedale Terrier
Rolf - Airedale Terrier

According to Rolf’s owner, Paula Moekel of Mannheim, Germany, the dog could communicate with humans by tapping out letters with his paw. He assigned the highest number of taps to less common letters. According to Moekel, the dog was a poet,a bibliophileand a ‘speaker’ of several languages. In her biography of Rolf she even claimed that the dog dabbled in deep theology and philosophy. These claims attracted attention in Germany, as they came at the height of the ‘New Animal Psychology’ movement. The ‘New Animal Psychologists’, led by Dr. Karl Krall, believed that certain animals, such as dogs and horses, were nearly as intelligent as humans and could be trained to unlock their intellectual potential.

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Oorang Airedale Terriers

Oorang Airedale Terrier

I occasionally read comments to the effect that there is no such thing as a Oorang Airedale or Mountain Airedale. There are some out there, who for whatever reason, love to put down the larger breed of the Airedale Terrier. They usually say it’s just a marketing gimmick or that these dogs are subject to greater hip problems than the standard Airedale. Personally, I believe they’re wrong on both points.

Oorang Airedale TerrierOorang Airedale Terrier

Not to go into the whole history of the Oorang Airedale here in this post, but the fact is that Walter Lingo in 1920’s bred and sought to create an even more powerful type of Airedale. His efforts resulted in the King Oorang breed of Airedale dogs. Lingo described the King Oorang as the “world’s great all-around dog.”

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Oorang Airedale Terrier

Here is Oakley, my Oorang Airedale Terrier at 3.5 years old. Of the three Airedales I have owned, Oakley is my first Oorang and by far the smartest of my Airedales. He loves his five day per week walk up Cowles Mountain here in San Diego.

oorang airedale

Oakley has been a dad twice now and is looking for another bitch for a little get-together. If any readers out there have a female AKC Oorang Airedale within traveling distance of San Diego, contact me.