A JRT called mouse!!

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I haven't much experiance of owning JRTs apart from my little black and white that looks like a collie wanabe! who is JRT through and through, 11 rats in one sitting very much a killer!!
She had a litter of pups which turned into an emergency c section, and the last one out was tan and white and looked and squeeked like a mouse and was so named, MOUSE! ..
Now! it took 1/2 hour to revive the little mouse, but she is now 9mnts old, and as fit as a fiddle, but I do believe she was starved of oxygen, because she is a bit special!!
she barks at rabbits then runs away, she is scared of birds! loud noises and would poo her pants at the sight of a rat!!
My question is .... is this normal for a JRT... or are there other JRTs out there with the same personality disorder?
 
My jrt has quite a few disorders. Chases torch beams, shiney things goes nuts for the air blaster ( it is a toy where you pull back a plas
 
It must be the Mo part of her name :D You have sooooo much more to look forward to :D

My little Moe was, according to a friend of mine an 'apology for a Jack Russell'
She didn't DO rain, snow, ice, the dark, thunder or fireworks. She was also the only dog I know who would beg to have her lead back on while she was out.

She was scared of chickens, ran away from rabbits and the one time she chased a fox (she got carried away watching the other dogs!) she ran up the muck heap after it and while the fox went down one side she ran straight off the top - and hovered in mid air with her legs flailing before she hit the ground with a thud.

She would climb the hay in the barn but you'd have to get a ladder to get her down - as you got within a couple of feet her she'd launch herself into your arms. I got good at catching dogs in mid air. She wouldn't go under a gate - it had to be opened for her. Or go through a puddle, I left her for 2 hours once to see if she would do it. No, I went back and carried her over.
She loved climbing on sleeping horses but every now and again would decide that she wouldn't go in the field with the horses so would just curl up at the gate and wait for me. I got a lot of phone calls about my 'lost' dog. If it was raining she'd swing out of your coat until you tucked her into it - then go asleep and start snoring.

She was the runt of the litter and I got her at 5 weeks (far too young really) as the bitch had run out of milk and the pups were only getting dry food, she also had a double hernia. She weighed less then 500g at the time and was always a tiny dog and very puppish looking. It took a full year to house train her - she thought nothing of asking to go out, having a look at the sky and coming back indoors to do her business. She also had a spate of b*ggering off on adventures - when she'd had enough she'd go to the first house she found and scratch on the door to be let in...take herself indoors and settle down on the sofa and wait to be collected:o Her other favourite place was a local smallholding that had pigs - she'd play with the bigger piglets and then go for a nap under the lights with a sow and piglets - I once had to wait for hours for the one person who could go in with this particular sow to come home so I could retrieve her. Her very favourite perfume was pig poo, my little white dog would be brown and dripping in poo. Tortoise and fox poo would do if there were no pigs available.I discovered the hard way that no matter what I washed her in it took a week for the smell to go. Unfortunately, she slept on my pillow in summer and in the bed in winter...

She loved cats and often slept with mine and would wander up to strange cats and sulk big time if they hissed at her.

She really was the dimmest dog I ever met, both her parents were proper working JRTs, in fact her mother was probably one of the sharpest terriers I've ever met . Her absolute saving grace was that she was the sweetest dog with people and especially kids. She loved being fussed, dressed up, taking part in games - she used to share food very gently with kids. She had one end of their sandwich while they had the other. She was also lazy and had to be forced to come out on walks, when she'd had enough she'd lie down and refuse to move.

So, not a typical terrier ;) but a very missed one.
 
Lovely story cbmcts, sounds like little Moe was a BIG part of your family.
The little Mouse also likes the fragrance of fox/badger poo, we are really only allowed one dog where I live, but the mouse has been here since being born with her siblings and has gone undetected! we haven't got a garden but she is house trained she goes in her cage 2 linked together and she goes on the paper bit she is very good.
She gives you cuddles and clings around your neck, she is too very tiny like a handbag dog, and very much a lapdog, and too has a little hernia! they sound very similar, I will have to try and post a pic!
 
Roly is a bit special like that - he's sensitive, he eyeballs sheep and chickens on the farm and is obsessed with woodlice :D he thinks they are his mini-army!!! :)

JRTs are prone to OCD so they can develop all sort of funny traits! :)
 
My 4yo JRT Tilly is the same. My 4 chickens round her up and peck her, she is scared of lots of other dogs, she also barks at anything provided she is in the car or behind a house window. She will run at things then run away. My friends goose terrorised her and she is scared of live rats:D She is happy and well socalised and is just not a killing machine except when she gets baby squirels. My sons JRT is quite similar. Together they are fearless and "attack" anything. The only thing they have actually killed was a mixie bunny which they carefully pulled apart before I could get to them. They have also presented me with some very smelly dead fish.:D I think they are just a bit of a quirky breed. Best dogs in the world though:)
ETS she also does not do rain or snow and likes to have gates opened for her as well so it is definitely a breed thing.
 
Lovely to read these stories, we collected our nine week old JRT pup a week ago and I have never met a dog with such character! He has not discovered woodlice yet, but is trying to up his protein levels by devouring ants and he is the tidiest puppy, takes all his toys to bed! We are introducing him to absolutely everything we can think of but having only had big dogs previously I guess I have a lot to Learn!
 
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