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Peters is on the right track.
My little guy will try to chew his way through the patio door to get at our local chippie who daily takes his life in his hands to scoop bird seed that has fallen from the feeders, and my female pulled the aluminum siding off the door frame to the sunroom trying get a chippie that took refuge in there.
This past summer they cornered a racoon under the dock at our cottage, there was some pretty horrible sounds coming from under there, and when I was finally able to call them off, one appeared with a piece of coon tail in her mouth, and the other had a piece of ear.
We now have a rather tattered local racoon that the neighbours used to call Rocky, now they call him Lucky.  .
The little girl will climb a tree after a squirrel. I doubt a gopher or rat would have much of a life span. She is so fast she can, and does much to the chagrin of my wife, outrun rabbits in our yard.
Mind you, the word Terrier comes from the French word ground, terre, and "going to ground", digging after prey is a strong instinct. Your yard wouldn't be any prettier after a couple of Jacks got rid of your gopher for you.
Best of luck.
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"...she caught a red squirrel and was batting it about in the yard."
Dave, wait until she learns, or figures out, the instinctive move, known to 'Jack' owners as the "Terrier Death-Shake".
They stand with their feet slightly splayed in every direction, and with their prey in their mouth by the neck, they shake very quickly & violently from side to side with a slight twisting motion of the head thrown in for good measure.
Anything that weighs little enough for them to be able to move expires of a broken neck in mere seconds.
It all happens so fast it is un-nerving, my wife was VERY dismayed the first time she saw it happen. I gently reminded her, that's why training is so vitally important.
As is keeping them in a fenced yard if you're going to turn your back on them for even a second.
Best of luck.
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Peters, if the dogs were Jacks, the ferret would last about as long as a box of Smarties with a fat kid.
Also, the hit 'n' run dispatch method is only something they can do on prey much smaller than themselves, when it comes to bigger stuff like foxes or coyotes, they have to use leverage.
Kenneth, if you describe a JRT as "Boy what a hyper dog." than I'm telling you, the dog is not properly cared for. I don't mean abuse per se, but a properly fed, trained & exercised JRT will be about as hyper as wet spaghetti noodles. If you look at my pic. # 7 you will see one of mine in his usual position, lying queitly watching the world go by.
However, a JRT, fed commercial (read: 'Ole Roy' from Wally World) food, not exercised or mentally stimulated and (God forbid) left alone for hours & hours a day, will be a lot like a small kid living on MickeyD's and candy and parked in front of the idiot box for a month.
Mine do acting and other things like the visiting dog program, where we go into seniors homes, hospitals, schools, etc., and the one comment I hear over & over & over again is "Do you tranquilize your dog? He's so calm, how do you do it?".
A dog needs the same things we do, proper diet, proper exercise and some mental activity.
If he's interested in turning the dog around get in touch, it's easy.
The female JRT we have presently is a 'rescue' dog, I don't mean she finds lost people, she was rescued from the 'final needle'. Her owner had given up, had placed her with 3 other people, who all gave her right back. My sister teaches with her and suggested she contact me. She was a basket case alright, but in a month she appeared in her first Agility competition, and got a 3rd prize!!
I've seen lots of misbehaving kids that I'm sure I could straighten out PDQ also, but that's another story. .
Best of luck.
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"Now if I could just get her to stop rolling in sh*t when she's outside..."
Then you'd be a better man than I sir.
In 20++ years of breeding, training & keeping them I've never been able to do it, or met anyone else who could either.
I think it's just an instinctive need to be 'undercover'. .
I did hear of one lady, but was never able to verify the story, who spritzed her JRT with a little cologne before she took it to fox hunts. The story was that the dog already thought it smelled and it then didn't roll in the lumps of 'horse stuff'.
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Pete, maybe the dog was just trying to tell you that it thought that what the bear left behind smelled better than the 'purdy' soap the vet used?
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Peters, either hope he grows out of that , or you tech him to dig a little hole and bury it amongst the plants in the garden. If he's gonna keep doing it, you might as well turn it into a rose, so to speak.
Iowa, any kind of exercise, especially something that involves thinking is a great diversion for any dog, regrdless of breed. It also goes a long way to making them happier overall, they like having a 'job' to do, whether it actually accomplishes something or not.
The equipment is home-made, although I suspect by now I qualify as 'professionally made' since I've made so many sets over the years. . There are no 'plans' per se that I've ever found, there are however, very strict rules about height, width, etc., etc., that each governing body publishes. If you want to email me I'd be happy to send you the spec's I have. I doubt it would matter if they're exactly followed or not for 'back-yard' fun. If you just search the 'net using a term like "canine agility equipment" I'm sure you'll find sites with pictures and such also.
The big factor is safety, the 'official' sizes and shapes are designed to be as safe as possible for all involved.
Best of luck.
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