Worked for my friends dog…just lavish him with praise every time he comes back…try not to use your voice as you are shocking him, so that he doesn’t think you’re the one causing his discomfort. You want him to think that the road or the pasture or whatever is the source of discomfort.
Tell him to come to you in whatever way you normally would…if he ignores you or turns away, jolt him. Then call him again, he’ll probably want to run to you for help.
The shock collar kits come with handy tips for training. Again, good luck.
Some JRT’s are harder to train than others…but they were bred to be tenacious, after all.
The JRT we have came to us after some asshat used her as a football.
She only weighed 7 lbs and had 4 broken ribs.
The ribs healed, and Amanda is now a swelt 20 lbs…miss piggy.
She is tenacious, one night I saw her attached to a coon’s tail, 20 feet up a big maple tree.
Damn stupid dog.
With me screaming at her, she finally let go, and dropped down on me.
I cut down the tree to make sure that didn’t happen again, and the 'coons moved. She will go after anything that moves, including a doberman out for a walk with its owner.
Moronic dog ran across the street, and attacked the poor dobe, who was muzzled (good thing?). The owner was screaming, I was killing myself laughing, the dobe was trying to jump into his owners arms, and Amanda is jumping over, around, and on top of the poor dobe.
They don’t walk past my house any more. 
Mine are running in between a herd of 40 mares and they do not attack the horses and the horses ignore them or curiously inspect them, sometimes they bark at one horse, nobody knows why and chase it a bit, but when I call them all are here in a second. They are very used to the horses. Only once one got run over from a horse and like a miracle nothing happened to the dog and I thought the worst, but the vet I drove to immediately with the dog, could not find even a scratch. They seem to be like caoutchouc.
That is funny - My Tikka dog used to growl and hit the end of the leash to try to attack the big dobe female in the neighborhood. Little fluffy dogs didn’t bother her, nor did friendly large dogs, noooooo, she wanted to attack the only dog that could swallow her without chewing.
My JRT !!
WOW , it is really amazing to hear these comments about Jacks. I too have one , he is 3yr. and just a love bug. He is from the Irish Jack line and he does NOT have that " Chase Prey" nor the " Selective Hearing" … He is so well behaved. But , I did crate train and had him in Obidence class. He goes to Horse Shows and everyone just loves him . He is so attached to my hip and does not go off exploring or anything. Boy I must be lucky. But I am now wanting to get a second and so many Breeders are warning me of my chances of getting another “Angel” such as mine. LOL…
OH well but who can just have 1 ?? It is not possible . they must be in pairs. LOL … Good luck to you . !!
I have JRTCA Jacks and I have to say that they seem to have a much better disposition than the AKC Jacks I have been around. My little Molly gal is such a sweetheart and she has never met a stranger she didn’t like. She is a great barn dog and listens pretty well.
What a great thread. Here’s mine showing how one would use the tail as a handle to pull them out of holes…
http://mapleridgedressage.com/photogallery/photo23618/DVC00098.JPG
(Whenever we dig fence post holes, he needs to check each and everyone!)
And to keep it horse related, he loves to ride horses too…
http://mapleridgedressage.com/photogallery/photo23618/joe%20riding%20001.jpg
My nieghbors breed Russel terriers… she used them in England on hunts.
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A terrier that does that is called a “hard” terrier. A good example of a breed that is a hard terrier is dauchsunds who were bred to hunt badgers. [/QUOTE]
While you have the job description right, Dachshunds are hounds, not terriers.
my JRT is actually quite obedient. He loves agility and hopefully will be ready to compete this summer…
Jack Russells
My Jack is now the proud momma of six fine pups, two females and four males…A large brood for her first litter, and she took to them like a pro. Here’s a few pics…
Aww, congragulations they are lovely:)
Cuteness overload!!
Czar - My Dillon is Cooper’s double, I swear! Dillon turned 1 in Sep06. He and my JackRat (same age) are pretty great barn dogs and have “horse sense”. But when Dillon draws a bead on something to chase outside (car, squirrel, whatever) he becomes 100% chase machine and also 100% deaf, apparently! We have to be really careful around the neighborhood. Otherwise he is a cute little love bug. Diva, the JackRat, will listen and come, thank goodness!
Dillon would be in heaven if he ever went out foxhunting with the horses and big dawgs!
Adorable puppies! Congrats!
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My Jack is now the proud momma of six fine pups, two females and four males…A large brood for her first litter, and she took to them like a pro. Here’s a few pics…
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y22/raz123/puppies002.jpg
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They are adorable. Where are you located? Your bitch looks just like my JRT, could they be related?
Hi XHalt,
I live Ontario, I don’t think they could be related. The breeder I got her from owned her parents, and they were locally bred as well. Thanks for the compliments on the puppies! They are VERY cute, I am having a hard time explaining to my sons that we REALLY DONT NEED another dog, and thus we can’t keep one! Besides, I don’t think I could handle TWO JRTs AND a Siberian Husky!
I have a short legged, broken coated Jackie. He is only 10 inches tall and weighs 15 pounds and he is SOLID muscle. His name is Winston. I never, ever in my life used to like small dogs, but when he was a wee babe, his owner brought a litter of Jacks in a laundry basket into the feed store and HE picked me out.
I had to make a big pen in my backyard because my other dogs chase the horses. I used 4x4 inch field mesh and Winston just ran right through it without even slowing down.
I put a half door across one of the rooms in my house, just held in place by the door jamb on one side and a hook and eye on the other. I cut a little ‘mouse hole’ in the bottom so the cats could get into the room - didn’t even slow Winnie down.
He needs 2x4 inch mesh at least to keep him in the yard. Even at that, he CAN dig.
When he was a puppy, my neighbors had a black and tan Coonhound puppy who was 10 days younger than Winston. This puppy was MUCH bigger and he used to try to play by squashing Winnie with his huge paws. Winnie got mad, jumped up and clamped onto the Coonhound’s ear with his teeth, then lifted all 4 paws off the ground and hung on with his full weight with his paws all tucked up into his body. The Coonhound yelped for mercy. When Winston finally let go the Coonhoud then, and forever more, played nicely with him.
If I expose a mouse anywhere he is around he snaps it up with lightening speed and quickly disposes of it. He would love to get out to the barn to look for rats. One time I found him barking and barking and barking at a corrugated plastic pipe that had been used for drainage but was then just lying in the yard. I looked in and didn’t see anything. I tried to get him to come with me, but he wouldn’t, and kept barking at it. I finally picked it up and shook it violently to ‘show’ him there was nothing in it. A rabbit popped out and off they went.
He will NOT come on recall if he gets loose, but if I shout ‘WHOA’, he just drops and waits for me. Then I can run over and scoop him up.
Shock collars and JRT…lol…they run right through in my experience…yipping all the way…but still running through (the invisible fence).
We have a wire mesh fence and had to run electric wire along the bottom to contain our JRT’s. They are smart little buggers too and they work out problems pretty fast.
JRT puppies, Warning! CUTENESS OVERLOAD!
I just had to post the links to these pics…TOO CUTE for words!
enjoy!
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y22/raz123/puppies2010.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y22/raz123/puppies2012.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y22/raz123/puppies2013.jpg
