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The New Zealand Kennel Club reports the first Dandie Dinmont Terrier to have arrived in 1973. Mr and Mrs Arthur from Karori imported a bitch to New Zealand.

Nor only in New Zealand the Dandie Dinmont Terrier is a rare breed, and all should be done to create and maintain a sound breeding basis, as the world gene pool is not that large.

You may call New Zealand to be lucky as it has a little but excellent stock for breeding. The co-operation of some breeders in Australia, New Zealand, and the U.K. made this to become reality.

A lot has to be done to preserve these rare and special terriers for the coming century. Everyone is welcome who is really interested in maintaining this loveable breed under international auspices - to own a Dandie really is a privilege.

In the 70ties the Dandie had been imported to New Zealand and from this time on Josie Witthall who immigrated from the U.K. in the late 50ies, had continuously bred, imported, exhibited, and fought for the preservation of this breed in New Zealand.

Josie Witthall got her first Dandie Dinmont Terrier in 1944. It was a pepper-bitch Hogoblin's Daphne (Coneygreave Maharajah x Hobgoblin's Brown Betty) by name. She had been bred by the late Col. Pierce of Cheltenham. In 1946 Mrs Josie Witthall had her kennel Hobergay registered with the Kennel Club.

Together with her mother, Mrs Marjorie Mason who admired this loveable breed, she has had various litters. Out of one of these litters was the wonderful bitch Hobergay's Jenny, later to become mother of the famous bitch Salismore Parsley.

Her present Dandies can be traced back for more than ten generations to Hobgoblin's Daphne and Hobergays Jenny via the Salismore Parsley line - quite a pleasant persistency for Mrs Josie Witthall.

During the last few years a substantial gene pool could be achieved in the Southern hemisphere through the co-operation with the kennel "Jollygaze" from Melbourne. It appears that the future existence of the Dandie in New Zealand will be secured.