Hi there
Myself and my family are looking to rehome a rescue dog after losing our dog recently. He was getting old and we prepared for the fact he didnt have long to go (myself and hubby) and we had said a while back about wanting to get a jack russell in the future.
We as a family agreed on rescuing a small breed of dog and are considering a jack russell or jack russell terrier cross.
I have looked up the breed previously and recently have been looking up again and researching for a couple of weeks the breed as i have heard over the years they can be yappy/snappy.
Have looked through the archives on threads on mumsnet too and its a very mixed bag of opinions on the breed.
Something that does jump out at me is the reference to them being a typical terrier and orginally bred as hunter so will chase smaller animals such as cats, rodents, birds and its depending on there prey drive if they will chase and kill.
I have also seen reference in regards to people not advising to get them if we have children as unpredictable. I dont have children and cant see it being in our future as we have had nearly 5 years of infertility since i misscarried my only pregnancy and failed ivf. Hubby has said no more.
We dont have children visiting often my toddler neice has been round a couple of times which was more due to the holiday season.
We do have 3 cats, two are very much house cats and have made one room their den where the new dog would not have access to.
The other older cat is mostly in and in another room but will hang out in other areas of the house and goes out briefly.
I am concerned about them with the cats based on what i have read though am keeping an open mind as dont want to generalise the breed.
I seems that it does really depend on the dog themselves how well they respond to training. I understand from what i have read they can be hard to train (though not through lack of intelligants as very clever, it repeatedly comes up) and take a lot of perserverance, patience and hard work.
I also get the impression even then it may not be something that can be trained out of them so to speak as it really is inbuilt in some of them (again depends on prey drive)
The dog would never be completly alone in the house, there are 4 adults in the house myself included and for varying reasons 3 are at home in the day. We tend to go out one or two at a time.
I have downloaded a book onto my kindle and looking at other titles as trying to cover the breed as a whole and subjects like there history, training ect .
I want to ask if anyone has any personal experience of owning a JRT/JRT cross ? Positive stories would be nice to read but overall looking for honest advice about them .
Thanks xx
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heresHalloweenagain18 · 21/01/2019 21:50
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