Scotland is a rugged land and the dogs which lived in the country centuries ago grew up as rugged and crusty as the land. There was no established Scottish Terrier for many years but there has always been a "Scottish Terrier type" of dog. It is just that there was no attempt at developing type and so dogs that lived and worked as the rodent catchers and tough little watchdogs of the farmers simply were born looking like their sires and dams. The Terriers of the Aberdeen region were the most well established type but were generally just dubbed the "Aberdeen Terrier" without any real attempt at development of a pure strain. Although there was a preponderance of this Aberdeen Terrier type it was not an established breed until 1879, when Captain Gordon Murray decided to establish type in the numerous terriers that were present in the Aberdeen region. He began with the terriers who had the long hair and a long face and a square jaw and within five years he had perfected a true to type terrier which he then called the Scottish Terrier. The Scottish Terrier Club was established in 1882 and the first of the Scotties began to enter the Show ring at that time.