Welcome to the online home of our much loved, 
BEST IN SHOW WINNING family of English Toy Terriers

"YURRUGAR"
The English toy terriers with international appeal

Retired Aust Ch Yurrugar Black Label

Yurrugar is an Australian based kennel that is totally dedicated and committed to the superb English Toy Terrier (Black and Tan). Yurrugar is a hobby kennel with a professional outlook. We are proud to exhibit and breed quality, multi award winning, true to type dogs that have excellent conformation, outgoing temperaments with the true terrier attitude, the correct, unique topline and "extended trot" movement. We particularly pride ourselves on breeding excellent hind quarters as well as beautiful, wedgey heads with good under-jaws. Our English Toy Terriers enjoy much success when exhibited at all breed championship shows under both local and international judges.

Yurrugar is based on a beautiful, 60 acre property in Victoria, Australia. The Yurrugar prefix has been established since 1975 and was originally associated with cattle, horses and Australian Cattle Dogs. Our family has bred, shown and judged horses and cattle at the very highest level for a number of decades. It seemed a natural progression to become involved in the showing of dogs, especially such an elegant and athletic breed like the ETT. 

We are privileged to own and breed some of the world's finest English Toy Terriers and feel that we have acquired the very best and in turn, we are producing some of the very best. In 2008, we decided to take a change in direction and move towards basing our kennel on American lines mixed in with the Australian lines that we already had. Subsequently, Yurrugar has magnificent imports from the USA and was the first Australian English Toy Terrier kennel to embrace and utilise American type and bloodlines. Our breeding is based on the Saint Lazar lines from the late Wanda Walker. We will be forever indebted to Wanda for allowing some of her prized dogs to come to us here in Australia.  

Paige with Aust Ch Yurrugar Supermodel

We are extremely proud of the dogs that we have bred, owned and currently own. Some wonderful worldwide friendships have been developed because of our dogs and hope to make many more. We take great pride in the excellent reputation we have established both nationally and internationally and thank those breeders who have helped us along the way as well as those who have thought highly enough of our dogs to want to acquire a Yurrugar one from us.

Multi Ch Yurrugar Diamonds N Dreams, Best of Breed, CRUFTS 2013

We compete mainly at city shows in Melbourne, which most that know the area would agree, is extremely competitive. We attribute our show ring success to date to our dedication, hard work and enjoyment of working together to create a team of dogs that look their best whenever they step into the show ring. Although, to get to the show ring, you must first start with something special and we are dedicated to continuing to breed ourselves these wonderful English Toy Terriers that are good enough to compete and win at the very highest level. We are truly proud of Team Yurrugar and all that it encompasses. We would like to thank our fellow competitors, and those judges, who have been nothing but supportive of us and our team of dogs and who embrace our dreams. The encouragement has been overwhelming.

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There is no other English Toy Terrier breeder on earth that has bred both the Best of Breed winner at Crufts (England)
and the World Dog Show (Europe)!  ​Not bad for the little kennel from Downunder!

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JUST SOME OF OUR ACHIEVEMENTS INCLUDE

BEST OF BREED, CRUFTS UK | BEST PUPPY IN GROUP, ADELAIDE ROYAL SHOW | RUNNER UP TO BEST IN GROUP, ADELAIDE and CANBERRA ROYAL SHOWS | BEST PUPPY IN GROUP, CANBERRA ROYAL SHOW | TOP 4 BEST PUPPY IN GROUP ON TWO OCCASIONS, ROYAL MELBOURNE SHOW | BEST IN GROUP 4TH, ROYAL MELBOURNE SHOW | BEST IN GROUP 4TH, ROYAL ADELAIDE SHOW | BEST OF BREED, WORLD DOG SHOW | BEST PUPPY IN GROUP, ROYAL HOBART SHOW | TOP ENGLISH TOY TERRIER, FINLAND | TOP ENGLISH TOY TERRIER, AUSTRALIA | TOP ENGLISH TOY TERRIER KENNEL, AUSTRALIA | TOP ENGLISH TOY TERRIER, GERMANY | TOP ENGLISH TOY TERRIER, DENMARK | TOP TOY MANCHESTER TERRIER, JAPAN | BEST BREEDER IN SHOW, FINNISH TERRIER CLUB | BEST BREEDER IN SHOW, ESTONIAN TERRIER CLUB | NUMEROUS BEST IN SPECIALITY SHOWS, BOTH TOY AND TERRIER | NUMEROUS BEST IN SHOW ALL BREED WINS | BEST OF BREED WINNERS AND RUNNER UPS AT ROYAL HOBART, LAUNCESTON, CANBERRA, BRISBANE, MELBOURNE AND ADELAIDE ROYALS | COUNTLESS BEST OF BREEDS, GROUP WINS AND PLACEMENTS ACROSS EUROPE, AUSTRALIA AND JAPAN | NUMEROUS EUROPEAN WINNER TITLES | INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONS | WORLD WINNERS

PLUS CHAMPIONS AND JUNIOR CHAMPIONS IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
AUSTRALIA, NORWAY, GERMANY, FINLAND, ESTONIA, SWEDEN, DENMARK, LATVIA, LITHUANIA, BELARUS, RUSSIA, LUXEMBOURG, JAPAN

There is no other Australian breeder that can boast this kind of success.

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Paige and Lexi

Finally, our dogs are much loved family members first and foremost and not every weekend is spent at dog shows. Our dogs enjoy a lot of time where they are "just dogs", playing around the farm and pretty much just living leisurely lives! Having said that, they LOVE going to the shows. We enjoy this hobby as a family and the dogs enjoy the socialisation and outing as much as we do. Win or lose, the Yurrugar English Toy Terriers are our pride and joy.

Thank you for visiting our website. Any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.

The Saunders Family and Dr Rowley. 

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