The Turnspit Dog was a short-legged, long-bodied dog bred to run on a wheel, called a turnspit or dog wheel, to turn meat. The type is now extinct. It is mentioned in Of English Dogs in 1576 under the name "Turnespete". William Bingley's Memoirs of British Quadrupeds
(1809) also talks of a dog employed to help chefs and cooks. It is also
known as the Kitchen Dog, the Cooking Dog, the Underdog and the Vernepator. In Linnaeus's 18th century classification of dogs it is listed as Canis vertigus.
The breed was lost since it was considered to be such a lowly and
common dog that no record was effectively kept of it. Some sources
consider the Turnspit a kind of Glen of Imaal Terrier, others make it a relative of the Welsh Corgi.
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