The Legislature declared the Blue Lacy the official dog breed of Texas on May 25, 2005, making the state only one of 11 in the U.S. to award a canine breed that honor.
The Blue Lacy, the only dog to originate in Texas, is an energetic, hard-working breed that was brought up on a Burnet County ranch under the supervision of a historic Central Texas family.
House Concurrent Resolution No. 108 describes the Blue Lacy, in part, as “a Texas native, a working dog bred to play an essential role in ranch operations, at a time when the ranches themselves became one of the iconic Texas symbols, and a dog that has more than pulled its weight on many a Texas spread.”
The beginnings of the Blue Lacy breed date to 1858, when the Lacy brothers moved from Kentucky to Granite Mountain near the present-day Texas city of Marble Falls. Just 12 years had passed since the U.S. formally annexed Texas, and Burnet County’s population was about to reach 2,487 residents when Frank, George, Ewin and Harry Lacy took up masonry and ranching in the shadow of Granite Mountain’s 869-foot dome.
