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A good JR will break the necks on a dead run and while looking for the next victim.
How about two dogs and a ferret? When is her birthday?
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I understand the Jack Russel is good around horses. What I have seen of them makes no sense to me. Would think the horse would get tired of them and let them have it. My nephew which has the JR and horses said it was because they move so fast the horses could not catch or kick them was why they are so good around them.
Boy what a hyper dog. No gophers here but I think I rather have them than the JR. Guess I'm just too old for such.
As to the JR killing, makes me glad I am as big as I am.
Murf, the racoon and dog story. If you have never heard any Jerry Clower coon stories you need to.
A bred that was breed for rat killing that is not near as hyper is the Yorkshire Terrier. They are so small...not sure how they compare to a gopher.
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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.  .
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Murf,
Yep, very hyper. Not sure of the food it was fed but ommercial.
Left alone...use to be a good bit. Not sure now, but it was kept in large pen in horse barn. Think they had two.
I agree that interacting with any animal normally helps calm them and the more the better. They also often take on the behaivor of their care taker. Don't they?
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"As is keeping them in a fenced yard if you're going to turn your back on them for even a second."
Murf, We've been pretty lucky here. Much of the time we just let her outside for a while and she's always in earshot (I'm keeping my fingers crossed on this one). Now if I could just get her to stop rolling in sh*t when she's outside...
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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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We had our dog (lab) washed at the vet last fall with a soap and conditioner with fragrance, prior to our U.P. trip. That's when she found the bear sxxt! That was nasty!!
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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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Wonder if it was the bear stuff or the money he had just wasted that got him the most?
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Well the lab/border collie cross we have keeps retrieving the horse ShXT balls. I know he is young yet but I hope he will learn like retrieving sticks and frizbees instead.
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