THE HAVANESE

  ORIGINATED IN CUBA

FROM AN EARLIER BREED

KNOWN AS BLANQUITO

      DE LA HABANA.

     THE HAVANESE

         ADORNED

  AND ENLIVENED THE

        HOMES OF

     ARISTOCRATIC

     CUBANS DURING

  THE 18TH AND 19TH

       CENTURIES.

  AT THE TURN OF THE

   20TH CENTURY, THE

HAVANESE WAS MAKING

   IT'S WAY INTO THE

 MORE MODEST HOMES

         AS WELL.

THE BLANQUITO DE LA

HABANA DERIVED FROM

    THE ORIGINAL

        SPANISH

   BICHON TYPE DOGS

  AND WAS THE BASIS

   FOR THE HAVANESE.

  A BREED KNOWN FOR

  THE SILKEN TEXTURE

      OF IT'S COAT.

   AS MORE AND MORE

EUROPEAN TRADITIONS

WERE ADOPTED IN CUBA

 IN THE 19TH CENTURY,

  THE CUBANS BECAME

  ENAMORED WITH THE

  GERMAN AND FRENCH

 POODLES, WHICH WERE

   CROSSED WITH THE

 EXISTING BLANQUITO

  TO CREATE TODAY'S

        HAVANESE.  

      MY REFERENCE:

A GREAT BOOK WRITTEN

BY "ZOILA PORTUONDO

    GUERRA" CALLED

     " HAVANESE."

 JUST HANGING OUT!