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Jacks are my all time favorite "small" dog. Love how tenacious they are. I saw one the belonged to a farmer join my dad's cat hounds and chase a bobcat until the cat treed. The Jack had no training in bobcat hunting obviously and he was just doing what the other dogs were doing but he did it quite well and it it was hilarious to watch. The Hunt goes on forever, the season never ends. I didn't learn this by reading about it or seeing it on TV. I learned it by doing it. | |||
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I agree with L. David Keith 100% on his last statement. After 40 year's in Vet Med and working with JR's and All age Pointer's it is the owner that need's the training. My oldest JR got her driver's lisence last year (16 year's) and is one of the most intelligent dog's I have ever been around. Love's kid's and hate's anything with fur or feather's. I could not ask for better companion's then my JR's. P.S. They make excellent 4 legged doorbell's. | |||
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 That's funny stockdoc and I too, agree with you! Regards, David Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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My folks raised Border Terriers and I've been around a lot of the small terrier breeds. They are high energy dogs that were bred for one reason...to hunt...and they take no prisoners and Jack Russells may be the best example of them all. | |||
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Jon, I'd like to add that our German jagdterrier are of a similar caliber, we call them handgrenades with fur... | |||
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I've heard Jacks described as "Jack Russel Terrorists" and as "Little thugs in clown suits". Wonderful dogs if you have the time and energy for them. Jerry Liles | |||
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Yes Jagdterriers are hardcore hunting dogs. I love JRT's great dog but the Jagds are better big game hunters. The Patterdale is toughest then Jagd then JRT. Patterdales don't listen well but will fight anything. Jagds are smarter. Two to three jagds will make a grizzly bear run for the hills. I hunted with all of them and the Jagd is the best all around hunter. | |||
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DUK Handgrenades with fur I like that. My hunting buddies called my Jagd 18lbs of dynamite. | |||
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If you are thinking of a JRT, go to a few shows and speak to breeders who belong to the JRT Club. You have to realise that you must understand "dog hierachy." If you do not, a strong willed dog will rule you and cause no end of grief. More often than not, poor tempered dogs come from "back yard breeders" who only see the potential for money and do not put the breed first. As a small working breed, [hunting activities] I have had a ongoing "love affair" with the breed. | |||
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Hogwash! My Mountain Cur is the perfect versatile woods dog, loves people, and is at home in the woods,  or in the house.  GSP's another good versatile hunting dog if you can find some of the old Grief blood. Unfortunatly,,,, just like every dog Americans get their hands on,,,, there's some really poorly bred ones out there, so choose wisely. My Sophie dog hunts Grouse and Quail better than any pointer I've had and has never had an E-collar on in her eight years of life.  Both of these dogs go about forty pounds so they might be a tad big for your wants/needs, but if not I wouldn't overlook either. FWIW,,, my buddy (a Bear guide over in OR) has a Rat Terrior that's one of the best camp dogs ever, but that's the only one I've been around. Luck in your quest for a new woods buddy, and by all means, post pix. Charlie Field sports are not about targets and scores. Score-keeping is necessary in competitions between humans, unattractive in competitions with weaker adversaries. Constant scores of many to zero do not smell of struggle and chance. They smell of greed. | |||
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A picture from Mr. and Mrs. Handgrenade. The first one behaved so well at home that my wife gave permission to acquire a Mrs., too. I just love those terriers, no other dog with a higher performance by lbs. of life weight than these.  | |||
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What a good job of blaming a dog for the owners lack of undestanding of how to deal with such a dog. I have an adopted JRT/Wire Hair Fox Terrier mix. He had some problems when I got him from the lady in Green Bay. He barked too much, didn't like to be dominated, didn't like a person crawling toward him on the ground, ran off, aggression issues, almost got himself killed by my lab, etc. It's been almost two years and he has been a totally different dog for most of those two. He's a hunting machine. He trees squirrels, does long water retrieves, releases on command, honors my lab, tracks, runs my trap line with me, walks at heel, anything you could want him to do. Sharp as a tack is a good way to describe him. And yes as someone else put it, he is still a terrorist. There is never a dull moment with him around. He has been great for my lab as he gets older. He keeps him playing like a pup and loves to be chewed on which my lab is only too happy to do. He's also a great house dog and loves everyobody. | |||
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I can appreciate the dog but definitely a bad idea if you don't have experience with strong willed dogs. Way too much risk of them wanting to dominate everyone in the house. The risk is even bigger with the age of kids he has. | |||
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We adopted a roughly 1 1/2 year old terrier mix from our local animal shelter; she appears to be a jack & Queensland mix, but I'm not 100% certain. She is super sweet with our 3 kids, and keeps my back yard cat free. I'm super happy. She does chew but is getting better. She's not yappy and I don't have to leash her when we venture out to the front yard. She stays right by me 24/7. I'll try to post an image later tonight -eric " . . . a gun is better worn and with bloom off---So is a saddle---People too by God." -EH | |||
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DUK,,, those are some fine looking dogs you've got there. You have every right to be proud of em. Field sports are not about targets and scores. Score-keeping is necessary in competitions between humans, unattractive in competitions with weaker adversaries. Constant scores of many to zero do not smell of struggle and chance. They smell of greed. | |||
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We are very happy with Shaka, our JR, (named after the fierce African chief in the early days of SA). Warwick Evans sent him from South Africa to us. Warwick uses them to go into the boulder fields to chase the leopards out when they bay in them. Warwick catches 25-30 leopards per year with his JR's and hounds. We have used him on cougars and bears here in Idaho. He will strike the bears off the back of the 4 wheeler and pick-up. He has treed two adult bears by himself. He will stand and fight with them all day. All this in only 22 pounds. I use the 4 wheeler to condition the hounds and Shaka. They will run 8-11 miles averaging 9.3-9.5 mph with an elevation gain of 2,900 vertical feet. Shaka can outrun and outdistance them. He will be the first of the strung out line back to the truck. The only challenge is keeping him from starting fights with the other hounds under the tree. If he can't chew on the bear/cougar he will ultimately grab hold of one of the hounds as it passes by. We are high on him, but only because we burn up his extra energy. I cannot imagine someone having one for their lap dog. | |||
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Watching Jack Russells at the local snake breaking training is one of the more interesting and amusing of my memories. They all got real tired before they learned to avoid the rattlers. Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do. | |||
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I keep telling her it is because the dog is a terrier.