Miniature schnauzer The Miniature Schnauzer (German: Zwergschnauzer) is a derivation of the standard schnauzer dog, which emerged in Germany in the second half of the 19th century. This breed is probably the result of the crossbreeding of a standard Schnauzer with some of the smaller breeds, such as poodles, miniature pinschers or affenpinscher. This breed is the smallest variety of the schnauzer. History The schnauzer originated in the late 1880s on German farms to combat rodents, as a company of mares and horses, as well as to be an alert and intelligent company of families. The coat of both the beards and the legs has a function from its origins since it serves as camouflage to mislead the rodents that bite the fur assuming that it is the skin of the animal. So it is believed that their beards were a type of shield when hunting mice, since it protected them from scratches and bites by rodents. Ear and tail cutting also shared this same purpose, since rats could easily bite ...
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