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Sasman

Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 01:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Jack is the smartest dog I have ever known.

One day dw and I were having pasta for dinner. Jack never leaves when we are eating even though we seldom give him anything from the table (where there's hope.... I guess).

Anyway, he all of a sudden runs out of the room and into our bedroom where we hear him jump on the bed. We looked at each other and proceeded to follow him.

Sure enough, he's on the bed in 'play' position. So we all are on the bed roughing him up when all of a sudden he jumps off of the bed and runs to our dining room table.

All of a sudden we hear one of the chairs move and we run back to the table.

But it was too late. He had tricked us into the bedroom and now dw's plate was pretty clean and sauce was all over his mouth.

We laughed till we cried.

Eliz87

Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 01:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL That's hilarious. Animals are very smart!

One time, my cat was outside and he somehow got onto an air conditioner (window unit) outside. He was meowing helplessly at me as I was trying to coax him down (it was only about 7 feet up in the air). Well, I turned around to go get a stick so that I might be able to prod him off of there and when I turned back around...lo and behold...there he was right behind me!

After that, he tried pulling the "stuck in a tree" stunt but I wasn't having any! :-)

Eliz87

Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 01:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh, and I hope it's okay I posted that here...I don't understand the thread title. What's JRT stand for?

Sasman

Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 01:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Jack Russell Terrier

Sasman

Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 01:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Moderator, can you change the thread name to "Jack Russell Terrier Stories".

Thanks.

Eliz87

Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 01:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Oops, no cats allowed!

Sasman

Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 01:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Sorry Eliz, but Jack would definetely not be happy with a cat in his place! JRT 's only!

Eliz87

Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 01:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Sasman, I wish I still had an e-mail that was forwarded to me last year. It's a Jack Russell Terrier with his hind legs propped up on a tree trunk making his mark. The caption was something like, "The Jack Russell Terrier will do anything to prove that he is bigger than he actually is." I'll do a search on the internet and see if I can find it.

Sasman

Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 01:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
That's funny; dw and I always say that Jack is just as big as he needs to be.

A few years ago he was playing with a very large Dalmation in the park. At one point the Dal gave him a swipe with his paw and Jack went flying head over heels.

Jack picked himself up, shook a couple of times and made sure that all his parts were still in one piece.

Then he looked straight at that Dal with a glare and a snarl that all JRT owners know and fear.

Then he lunged at the Dal's neck and lept thru the air up at that big dog.

Thankfully, I still had Jack's leash and pulled him back right out of the air!

You should have seen how fast that man and Dal left the park!

Eliz87

Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 01:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Wow! My brother-in-law has two Jack Russell's -- Spud & Pebbles are their names. They are literally murder on any rabbits that might stray into their back yard. Other than that, they're well-trained and rather docile.

My cousin also has one who is a little younger -- only two or three. He was the most playful puppy I ever encountered!

Nice, handsome, sturdy dogs.

Jeep

Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 01:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
That is so funny Sas! I've never had a JRT, but have had 2 siberian huskeys, a rottweiler and a little mutt. Hubby used to raise border collies when he was younger.

Sounds like they're great dogs! You might talk me into one (have none now).

Eliz87

Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 01:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh, one little anecdote about my cousin's dog (his name is Sneakers).

One time Sneakers came over to visit with my cousin, and he absolutely flipped out when I opened a can of Coke for myself. Turns out the dog absolutely loves Coca Cola. I know it's naughty, but I gave him about a quarter of the can. I couldn't resist his cute little yap and tail wag!

Yankee_In_Ca

Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 03:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My JRT is weird.

My JRT's biggest problem is his OVERT friendliness. If he sees another dog -- doesn't matter how big, how small -- he jumps and spins and pulls and goes nuts trying to say "hi." Once he's there, he muzzle-licks like crazy, spins and jumps some more. Now some dogs like this, and some dogs run like crazy in the other direction whenever they see my maniac jumping and spinning towards them.

He is so excited to see any other dog, that people always ask, "how old is your little puppy?" and assume he's a pup still -- even though he's 2 1/2. We've tried to train him to stop going so wacky, but absolutely nothing has worked.

The other day at the vet's office, he tried to kiss and play with the vet's cat. (Thank goodness the cat was de-clawed!)

HOWEVER, though my dog is overtly friendly and often even submissive, here's where the Jack Russell in him kicks in -- if another dog starts a fight with him, my dog's instincts kick in and he morphs into a Jekyll-and-Hyde fighting machine. Scary, even. Won't start a fight, but once it's started, he would never back down. Not even if his foe was a Rottweiler.

Once in the park a boxer snapped at him and he retaliated -- and was quickly surrounded by the snarling mouths of another boxer, a lab mix and a Staffie. And my 14-lb. dog was ready to take them all on. I had to reach into the middle and literally pull him out by his collar -- got a small bite/cut on my hand (and then a tetanus shot), but it was worth it cause my guy would have been toast.

These dogs are often too big for their britches. But that's why I love him!

Moondance

Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 03:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Meow

Luvmyjrt

Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 04:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh Sas!!! You rock by starting this thread! Let's see.....Maggie stories:

Well, Maggie USED to think she was BDOC (Big Dog on Campus). She would boss any dog around. Until her little sister, Shannon, a border collie came along. Maggie would take on any dog; big small .... it didn't matter. Now that Shannon has come along, she is a bit more restrained. You can pretty much do anything to Maggie except.....sniff her butt! She will eat you like a Milk Bone for that one. (Of course, Shannon can do what she wants to Maggie)

Maggie has this thing at our dog park. Hubby is a Maintenance Supervisor for apartment complexes and we always live where he works. Maggie, being an energetic JRT, always has Daddy build her a dog park on property. Each one gets more and more elaborate, and bigger. Maggie loves to find the tennis ball that another owner forget, go around the fence, and push it through the fence with her paws or nose. She'll retrieve it every time, but always, always, will look back, give a doggie grin to daddy and push it out sooooo far she can't reach it! Then proceeds to bark her fool head off until he makes the trek around the outside of the fence to get it for her.

We just moved to NC from FL. Maggie has discovered.................squirrels. Daddy also built a fence around our back patio, but Maggie stands guard to watch for stray squirrels from the forest to bark at.

Finally, Maggie decided to take off into the forest one day after getting off her leash. Knowing Maggie, I got a piece of cheese (her favorite) and walked through the woods yelling "Maggie....cheese" for about a 1/2 hour. Never did find her, but my husband could soon be heard yelling "Missy, ...... WINE!" I quickly turned and walked towards his voice finding him, and Maggie looking for me with MY favorite treat!

Ah, Jacks.......you gotta love 'em!

Mygetaway

Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 05:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Don't have a JRT, but here's a cute one I wish I had from petstation.com...
awwww

Yankee_In_Ca

Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 08:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Helloooo, ladies. Maggie, Millie ... pleased to make your acquaintaince.

photo

Sunrvrose

Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 09:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
A few years ago I was dating a man who had a JRT.
One night he invited me to meet his family, at his home, for a BBQ. His house was lovely, and coincidentally located on the hill just above a winery, and the owners of the winery gave him cases of wine each season. So, we were all sipping just a bit too much of the grape.

Norm was BBQing Chix wings as part of the appetizers.

I was feeling kinda nervous meeting the family for the first time. Since I'm an animal lover, I filled the empty spaces with paying attention to the JRT and his other dog, a golden lab.

The Chicken Wings came off the grill and all of us were standing, talking, and eating the wings. I made some kind of statement and made a gesture to accent my point and kinda swept my arm out in a perhaps needlessly expansive way (chicken wing in hand), and the JRT literally jumped 5 feet into the air, snagged my chicken wing and away he went. I stopped, looked at my empty hand, looked at the other people around me, looked back at my hand, and started laughing so hard I nearly wet myself. They were looking at me like I was nuts. It had happened so fast that only maybe one or two of the seven or eight people had seen it. Pretty soon as the tale was told, everyone in the group was falling out laughing so hard. For the rest of the night, there wasn't a single difficult pause, 'cause anytime there was a pause, someone would say something about, "you shouldda seen that dog fly and snap that wing out of her hand." And we would all be laughing hysterically again.

Sasman

Wednesday, December 10, 2003 - 05:41 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Last night we were getting a little affectionate when dw got up to go to the bathroom. When she returned Jack had moved parallel up against me very close (any closer and he would have been on the other side of me!). Dw tried to move him but he just gave her a little glare and hunkered down even more; he almost always in the past would just move but not this time.

Well, since both of us were really pretty tired, we just laughed, left him where he was and went to sleep.

For the rest of the night he made sure to not move from between us. He must have known that we were too tired for any whoopie (sorry, we just saw 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind').

What a character!!!

Jeep

Wednesday, December 10, 2003 - 05:49 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Sas, your doggie stories are so cute! I really, really miss my doggies, even if they weren't JRTs.

Luvmyjrt

Wednesday, December 10, 2003 - 06:35 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Maggie does not even allow DH and I to kiss! Sounds like you have Jack better trained, Sas!

March

Wednesday, December 10, 2003 - 06:53 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I have always wanted a JRT and now after reading this thread I want one even more.
Thanks for starting this, enjoying your stories very much.

Lostintheglades

Wednesday, December 10, 2003 - 07:41 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Millie always lays between DH and I. I think I told you before she has a love hate relation ship with him. We got her when she was 6 months old and she had mostly been in a crate. DH got down on his hands and knees and growled at her so that's how they communicate now but she is quick to let him know that I belong to her and any sudden movements in my direction she lets him know real quick she's not playing. She does have moods though where she'll plop herself in his lap but this is only on rare occasions.

Lostintheglades

Wednesday, December 10, 2003 - 07:52 am EditMoveDeleteIP
We have a pretty good sized yard and Millie spends most of her day outside seeing what she can flush out.

waiting

Lostintheglades

Wednesday, December 10, 2003 - 07:54 am EditMoveDeleteIP
millie1