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Am I trying to be like Murf
Some time ago I posted a verse that went:
Before they bury me 'neith the turf
if I could be just half a Murf.
It looks like I've taken one more step toward that by getting a Jack Russell terrier pup. There's a pic of her on #2. What a wonderful smart dog. She's almost 3 months old now. I don't think I'll get two of them though. Hey that fits the half a Murf theme. 
Dave
The reason we have a new dog is that not long ago we lost our West Highland terrier to a fungal disease called blastomycosis (link below). It's a fungal disease that dogs (and humans) get from spores in the dust. She went off her food and five days later she was dead. We started her on the expensive medicine but it was just too late. There were plenty of tears in the house that day.
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Thanks for the condolences guys. We still miss the little girl. She was just in her prime and was a great dog, only 5 years old.
Thanks Murf for the offer of advice. Our new JR is definately a handfull. I'm constantly telling my wife that she's got to make the dog come when she calls now or she will never listen to her. When she (the dog) ignores me I just run her down and make her come to the spot I called from. When she was 7 weeks old I could actually run her down. Now I don't think she realizes she's 3 times faster than I am and just sits there. Almost all the time she comes on a dead run but sometimes there is something that is just too interesting...
Last week at dusk the dog and I we were sitting on the deck of our place in northern Wisconsin watching four deer out in my deer plot. Suddenly I noticed the dog's hair rise up. About 40 yards away was a gray wolf looking back at us. I really had to scramble and grab the dog because I knew she was about to TRY to destroy that wolf. I grabbed the dog and got her inside. It's obvious they have no fear of humans, it was in no rush to get away from me. As it trotted off a second one that was coming in at about a 90 degree angle joined it. I'm sure they were hunting the deer, not us.
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Brokenarrow, thanks for the thoughts. I was down close to your area a couple of times looking for some acreage to buy. There was a nice 40 east of Winter but that's getting a little too far away from Hayward for me. One other piece was only 10 miles or so from Ladysmith. Land is getting pricey up north too.
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Justus, Thanks, we always had Labs when I was growing up. They were all good dogs and good hunters. I remember my older brother in the yard telling one young lab to sit and stay. He forgot about it and 2 hours later the poor thing was still sitting.
Brenden, We also had a rat terrier. Again, a really neat dog. Is there a relationship between rats and Jack Russels? I suppose way back there somewhere there was a common ancestry. I think the Jack Russell was originally bred from a fox terrier by the good Parson. Murf???
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