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xristine · Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:17 pm Post subject: Hi from a newbie...

I'm new to the forum and much impressed by the excellent work you're all doing; work done not just with compassion but with humour too!

I don't live with a dog just now. I did live with one and a half JRTs until they died of old age; the last one - the JRTX - died in 2003. I grew up with two poodles and along the way, a SBT. But the JRTX was the love of my life.

Another dog isn't possible just now because I work but circumstances are likely to change next year and I'm hoping that before long I'll be sharing my home again. I miss all that optimism, enthusiasm and energy bundled into such a small area.

Paul&Annie · User Joined: 21 Dec 2008 Posts: 109

Hello and welcome!

I hope that you will keep and eye on the forum and when the time is right for you in the future I am sure RR will have the right dog for you.

We got our JRT from RR last year and I know what you mean about them, he makes us laugh every day, they are great fun.

Thanks for your support.

reclaimingrebus · Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:29 pm Post subject:

I'm sure we can keep you busy until you cease paid employmnet! welcome aboard !

Sharonr - Admin · Site Admin Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 2609

Hi there and welcome to our pack! Yes the humour is compulsory Wink

Initially it worried me when you said you "did live with 1 1/2 JRTs"!

Give me a shout if you need any help with the forum.
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xxlynne · Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 7:37 am Post subject:

Welcome xristine

Just wondering if you know what you were x'd with Ristine's are a favourite of mine Wink

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PatE · User Joined: 23 Jul 2009 Posts: 55 Location: Essex

Hello and welcome from another jack lover Smile

They do wrap their little paws round your heart, don't they?

xristine · Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 11:27 am Post subject:

hello all - many, many thanks for the warm welcome and such a good humoured forum!

@xxlynne - I think I was crossed with a computer as I'm hardly ever off the thing Razz

@ all the JRT fans - no matter what I do I can't rid myself of a fascination for them. I tell everyone else who thinks about having a JRT to imagine the dog 10 times the size they see and ask themselves if they can *still* manage her. But sadly I can't seem to get the message through to myself.

They are wonderful dogs. They have the perfect sense of humour, they're loyal and if they do something for you, you know it's because they want to - or you have a packet of cheese in your pocket... Wink

Here are my two... They are both dead now (of old age). The little black one (the JRX) died in 2003. I've given up thinking I'll ever stop missing her.

The hole they're looking into came to an abrupt end or this photo wouldn't exist. No JRT owner lets a JRT near a hole she can get down or you won't see her for dust. The JRT cross was cross with something that preferred waiting at the top for whatever it was to come out; so on walks I could ignore her and concentrate on Satan's daughter... Very Happy

They both had excellent recall and that isn't the 'speak no ill of the dead' speaking - I have no illusions about JRTs. But my two always came back immediately when I called or raised an arm. The JRTX was very very bright and trainable. The JRT was a JRT and apart from coming back when I called her was in every other way what you'd expect of a JRT in other words she couldn't hear anything at all that wasn't said by me.

The tails were docked before I got them btw. The JRT came from working stock and this was before the laws were changed so I can kind of understand why the farm decided to dock but in the JRTX's case I never forgave them. She is quite clearly a very mixed breed and was never bred to work. And she loved wagging her tail. I used to grieve for the bit that was missing even if she didn't. crybaby

Sorry about the rotten photo - it's a scan from film. This was pre-digital. This is the photo on the noticeboard above my desk and it's how I best remember them... always into something. Wink

Sharonr - Admin · Site Admin Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 2609

I think there will be many terrier people on our forum reading your post who will know exactly where you are coming from and whatever the JRT traits, just how endlessly amusing they truly are Laughing

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PatE · User Joined: 23 Jul 2009 Posts: 55 Location: Essex

Hubby and I have a little joke about jacks - and that is "once bitten, forever smitten!"

So we understand your fascination - and they do feel like a big dog in a small package. It led to another of our little sayings "Heart of a lion, sense of a duck!"
You can't help but laugh at them and their antics.

Of course you are missing yours still, but when the circumstances come right, there'll be another - who won't replace, but will mesmerise just as the others did. Adorable little dogs Smile

xristine · Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 2:42 pm Post subject:

PatE - your saying has made me laugh and has explained a lot. Wink

I was bitten by a JR as a child. I happened to be walking by when some children on bikes went by who had been teasing the JRT and he decided to bite the nearest child - me! So, obviously I was 'infected' and my fascination isn't my fault at all... Razz