El Maltese Bichon Yana daya daga cikin shahararrun karnuka a yau, godiya ga kyawawan dabi'unta, kyakkyawar bayyanar su da kuzarin kawo kuzari. Suna jin daɗin motsa jiki da kamfanin masu su da yawa, kuma gabaɗaya suna cikin ƙoshin lafiya. Kari akan haka, akwai ra'ayoyi da yawa da suka kewaye wannan nau'in.
Akwai ra'ayoyi da yawa game da asalinsa, kodayake an san cewa Maltese Bichon Yana ɗayan tsoffin ƙananan ƙwayoyi a Yamma. An ce, a kusan 6.000 BC, Emperor Tiberius Claudius yana da kare na wannan nau'in. A ka'ida, Romawa ne suka kawo wannan dabba zuwa Asiya; don haka aka samo mutum-mutumi kwatankwacin wannan kare a kabarin wasu fir'auna. Daga baya, a tsohuwar Girka (ƙarni na XNUMX kafin haihuwar Yesu), Aristotle zai ambaci Bichon Maltese.
Wannan na iya ana amfani dashi don farautar beraye wadanda suka shigo cikin jiragen ruwa da kuma rumbunan ajiyar biranen tekun. Kodayake a tsakiyar zamanai ya fara samun karbuwa sosai daga ajin sama, saboda bayyanar da kuma "ikon magani", kamar yadda aka yi amannar cewa yana magance zafi ta zafin jikinsa.
Ana tunanin cewa sunan ta ya fito ne daga tsohuwar kalmar Semitic "Malat", wanda ke nufin "mafaka" ko "tashar jiragen ruwa", mai yiwuwa yana nuni ne ga aikin da ya yi a kan jiragen ruwa. Sunan "Bichón" daga baya ne, kuma yana nufin kalmar "barbichón" wanda da ita ake kiran kwikwiyon poodles ko barbets da ita.
Yawancin lokaci muna jin game da nau'ikan Maltese daban-daban guda biyu: Toy da Standard. Dole ne a bayyana hakan Toy ba ya wanzu azaman tsere, amma wasu sun fi wasu yawa saboda wasu halittu, kasancewar sau dayawa wannan girman da gangan ne masu kiwo suka kirkira shi, ta hanyar wasu giciye. A waɗannan yanayin, lafiyarsu ta yi rauni, tun da suna cikin haɗarin shan zafin suga.
A matsayin son sani na karshe, ya kamata a lura cewa wannan nau'in ya sami babban farin jini saboda Maf, shahararren Bichon Maltese na Marilyn Monroe (takaice don Mafia Honey), wanda Frank Sinatra ya ba ta a cikin 1960.