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The small white fox-working terriers we know today were first bred by the reverend john russell , a parson and hunting enthusiast born in 1795

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Russell aimed to create a working terrier who would hunt with hounds, bolting foxes from their dens so the hounds could chase them.

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in 1894, he founded the Devon and Somerset Badger Club, the aims of which were to promote badger digging rather than fox hunting, and the breeding of terriers suitable for this purpose. Terriers were acquired from Nicholas Snow of Oare, and they were likely descended from Russell's original dogs,

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hunted at some point with Snow's hunting club and is likely to have provided at least some of their original terriers.[5] By the turn of the 20th century,