Those babies are beyond cute! I love the last one!
I also breed registered Jacks and recently got into Bull Terriers. They are such wonderful dogs. In my experience breeding, Jacks don’t have to have selective hearing, etc. It depends on the temperment of the dogs you breed and the time you spend with them. For example, all of the JR’s by my stud dog are very friendly and very obedient. My 2 yr old will heal while I am riding. He listens wonderfully. His half sister was having aggression issues and I offered to take her. After only a week of being around me and my dogs, as well as not being locked in a kennel all day she was an angel. Now on the other hand, I have had dogs out of another line that were “typical” and no matter how much work I did they were that way…so just make sure you check out the lines you purhase. But that said…I could never live without a Jack!!!
Christan
PS- Marta, you have a PM
Please for he was killed when my neighbor accidentally ran him over in our shared driveway,breaking my heart.
This is the first time since we lost him that I have been able to write about him,and my heart is breaking over again.
He was a little drop of sunshine in my life and I would do any thing to be able to see his cheerful little face and snuggle up again at night with him.
I miss you everyday Milhouse,my little sprout,and I will miss you for always.
Thank you for listening,
Alison.
Here is Milhouse…
Ohhh…
So sorry about poor Milhouse. What a cutie he was! I would be inconsolable if anything happened to my Dilly-bar. 
Tiempo, so very sad about your darling Milhouse! He was too cute for words!! HUGS to you!
Now I understand when people look at me with eyes wide in amazement when they say- Those can’t be Jack Russells- they listen to you. :lol:
Mine are both out to roam freely one is bred in the US and is a chunky type (dumplin I think) and the other was brought here from Ireland.
My Zoloft beauty Paisley had a litter of 3 that will be 8 wks old next Fri, She had two roughs (mucho whiskers ) and one smooth. They were spoken for within weeks of arrival
Josie who hails from Ireland will be due mid February. She was bred to the same rough coated male so hopefully she’ll have some fuzzy ones too.
I have TONS of photos but do not know how to attach them :no:
I can’t believe how much I love my girls… I could never stand the bouncing yappers so I guess both of them got the memo and more closely resemble a lovable lab personality. All I need to get their attention is a soft “ahem you” and they spring to my side as if attached to a leash.
The only thing that has ever been difficult was the housebreaking. It lasted for years.
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Ahhh, yes…Dillon is a “Stealth Pee-er”. I invested in a carpet scrubber. And the carpet will soon be replaced with wood floors (sealed, of course).
We have the most laid back Jack Russel in the world…Toby…he chased a mole last year and the mole won!
I used to breed JRT, until my good brood bitch got killed on the road. Well, my old dog died last year and I have shifted to a better place for JRTs, so I have just ordered my puppy!! I knew a couple of JRT I liked, so arranged for them to be mated and have been promised the pick of the litter. I’d like a rough coated bitch, but will actually take anything cute!!!
And with a side note to the lack of ears and the taking of traits of JRs, I once knew a congenitaly deaf jack russel. She had been taught hand signals, but if she didn’t want to do as she was told, she just didn’t look at you. She used to have me in stitches - it was so funny watching her making sure she couldn’t see her handler.
I’m sorry you lost your girl.
I would dearly love to get another Jack,but not until I can have a fenced in yard.
Last year, I had to put down my two JRT brothers - one on 10/31/05 (Thomas), and his brother William a few months later on 2/22/06 - they would have been 16 years old in April. I am just now getting where I can smile when I think of them - they were my heart.
HOWEVER, with all these months between their going, now, I am ready to have another. Here’s what I want…a “taller” JRT, not one of the adorable shorties - still want all the same traits (but less agression than my Thomas and William - at 15 they were still attacking other dogs!! :eek: ). Please PM me if you have any info on breeders with sane pups. Too many of the backyard breeders have sooooo many puppies, and I am beginning to see lots more hyperness than even 5 years ago in the pups coming from this area (am in the south, in Georgia, near Atlanta). Thanks! 
Jack Russells
These are indeed great little working dogs.
Only problem I have with them is that their owners seem to feel that they must drag them every place they go - foxhunts, horse shows, clinics etc. And of course restraining them all the time is just too much to ask because poopsie is so cute and everyone needs the pleasure of meeting him.
Leave poopsie at home.
Got to love m JRT…
Daydream, what wonderful information. I have a 5 yr. old JRT that I recieved from my husband for Christmas, when he was only 8 weeks old. He was the runt of his litter and I just fell in love with him. His name is “Zeus” I know what a big name for such a little guy (11.5 pounds) but he thinks he’s a big dog and holds his own well with others.
He is definately full of energy, I take him to just about every stabel I go to teach lessons and he has become some what our mini Pony Club mastcot as he attends every mounted meeting we have.:yes:
Zeus kills more mice than any cat I have ever met, and he loves to chase the squirrels in the back yard, don’t know what he’ll do if he ever catches one:eek: . H:winkgrin: e is also great with all 6 of my grandchildren. My hats off to Parson John Russel for creating such a wonderful breed.
Training is the key to JRT
I know the jumpy, yappy, pain in the ass JRT’s you speak about. Mine doesn’t wander off and reak havoc in fact , he rairly leaves my side. But I spent a lot of time working with him from the time he was 8 weeks old, agility, and obedience training.
If I am in the barn he is in the barn usually in the feed room hunting:)
When I head to the areana to teach a lesson he comes in and lay’s down on top of the mounting block after all of the riders are mounted. Sometimes one of my students’ parents will call him and he goes and curls up in their laps and doesn’t move.
They are active dogs and need to have a way to use up that energy or you end up with a bouncy, barky, pain in the ass. But training is key with Jacks they are too smart for their own good.:yes:
Question
To all of you former and current JRT breders, is 8 too old to breed my bitch? Sha has had a few litters and I REALLY wanted to keep a female out of her, last litter was two boys only! Grr. I am toying with trying one more time but how old is too old?
