I'd really appreciate advice with what to do in this situation.
My newish partner has a Jack Russell Terrier. Before I met the dog he told me it could be a bit 'off' and had bitten people in the past. But it was very situational ie people had put their hands down to stroke the dog and the dog had snapped at them.
The first time he brought the dog over he told me to just ignore him and let him have a sniff and not to put my hands down. The dog was absolutely fine and after a few times coming over accepted me stroking him.
However. I have kids in the house. I told my partner I wasn't happy with having a snappy dog around them and he assured me the dog wouldn't bite unless provoked. The kids were all told not to touch the dog and just to ignore him and leave him alone. The dog stays with us in the room we are in so is never alone with the kids at all, not for a second.
This went fine initially. But the dog is bloody mental. He goes mad barking and growling when ever they come in through the front or back door and 'chases them'. He growls when they walk past him (proper curled lip growling), not all of them but one child in particular.
If you try to pick him up he snaps and growls. He never does it with my partner but does to me. He was on my bed the other morning when I was in bed and I moved my foot and he growled and bit me through the quilt.
DD was sat on the floor next to me the other day and he came up and nudged her hand and curled up in her lap. His tail was wagging and he looked happy. I told her to just leave him and not stroke him. He was fine for a minute and then started nudging her hand to stroke him. She stroked him a few times on his back and he was happy enough but then suddenly started growling and barking at her. Obviously I removed him straight away.
He's just a mental dog and I don't want him around my kids. I've spoken to partner about this and he understands why so at the moment he won't be coming over as he can't leave the dog overnight on his own. Moving forward, this is never going to be a dog I would be happy being in the house with my children. Is this something that could be fixed in the dog or just the nature of the breed?
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Snappy, growling, biting Jack Russell, advice please
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Errand · 20/02/2020 10:26
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