Kerry Blue Terrier Registration Statistics

 

Index

 

Australia


Year       Kerry Pups    Total Terrier Pups

1986          41            9,360
1987          42           10,021
1988          49            9,495
1989          34            8,953
1990          38            8,492
1991          27            9,114
1992          39            8,402
1993          53            8,564
1994          37            9,014
1995          88            9,347
1996          74           10,073
1997          39            8,855
1998          59           11,667
1999          40           10,004
2000          47           10,367
2001          29            9,995
2002          58           10,036
2003          37           10,155
2004          26           10,290
2005          29           10,146
2006          35            9,867

 

Ireland


These statistics are not based on registration numbers but on research done by Anne Gygi in the 1980s. Below are the number of Kerries with listed or assumed DOB by year.  The 1915 count is incorrect because there is no reasonable means of assigning Kerries an earlier year of birth without examining archives that only exist in the archives of Henry Fottrell, the Irish Kennel Club and/or the Dublin Irish Blue Terrier Club, assuming these documents exist at all. 

1915*   74 
1916    27
1917    37
1918    21
1919    82
1920   107
1921   183
1922   210
1923   213
1924   227
1925   219


* Default DOB year - with many of the 74 Kerries whelped earlier - but how much earlier?
What is obvious from the records is that ALL Kerries descended from an original group of VERY FEW dogs, perhaps a dozen.

There is mention of "blue dogs" in various writings beginning in the later 1800s but they are not a traceable part of what is now the KBT mainstream.


The Netherlands

Year       Kerry Pups 
2003         64
2004         29
2005         41

United Kingdom

Year       Kerry Pups 

1998         291
1999         272
2000         279
2001         318
2002         244
2003         283
2004         274
2005         277
2006         263
2007         267

 

 

United States of America

      Year    Puppies   Breed Rank

      1934       183
      1935       270
      1936       334
      1937       341
      1938       445
      1939       479
      1940       538
      missing
      1965      1069        65
      missing
      1970      1163        56
      1971      1194        58
      missing
      1987       541        87
      1988       476        88
      1989       524        87
      1990       534        88
      1991       584        91
      1992       519        97
      1993       514        95
      1994       422       101
      1995       386       106
      1996       380       107
      1997       424       105
      1998       380       107
      1999       301       110
      2000       435       107
      2001       395       110
      2002       464       106
      2003       475       105
      2004       488       108
      2005       442       105

 

If you have any of the missing statistics, please send them to johnv@kerryblues.info. Thank you.

 

 

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