Facts About The Cavalier - Did You Know??

The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel is AKC's 140th breed.

The Cavalier became fully recognized by the AKC in January 1996.

The Cavalier was featured on the hit HBO series, "Sex and the City", as Charlotte York's dog.

The Cavalier was a favorite of King Charles I of Britain (the breed's namesake).

When the house of Stuart fell, it became a political liability to be associated with the dogs of King Charles (the Tudors favored the Pug), and the Cavalier breed became extremely rare.

Queen Victoria brought back the breed, but the Cavalier had changed radically from its original form; the original version of the breed had all but disappeared.

In 1928, the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Club was founded in England in attempts to support a revival of the "Old Type", and since then, the dog has grown to become one of the most popular breeds in Great Britain.

Source: AKC ORG