So I still do have terrier questions after all this time....

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Is this ALL terriers or just George? ?

It is so beautiful today I couldn’t stay indoors, so my laptop and I came outside. After 10 minutes or so I became aware of a Presence sitting staring at me.....

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He does tend to do this, it’s quite unnerving sometimes ?

So I invited him to come and sit on my knee, and apart from his complaints that it was too warm ? he was happy ?

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Are they all as demanding as this? ???
 
I don't know, what with being a total terrier novice but where I am, my terrier is too!! My hounds have been a bit more independent but this dog is reliably right next to me. Sometimes that's a good thing, other times not so!!
 
Mine is very demanding to OH. He comes it from work and she demands attention. She doesn’t do it so much to me, but when she decides she wants attention she sits and stares at me for as long as it takes for her to get what she wants.

One thing to remember is the world really does revolve around them as far as they see it.
 
Well it is reassuring that it isn’t just George ??? He has finally gone to sleep indoors this evening as I am sitting out in the garden in the sunshine (and I have no human food for him to beg from me!) - I shall put it down as a terrier trait from now on ??
 
Oh yes we have our JRT and our JRT x and both very in your face. My husband works from home and often ends up with at least one of them on the desk and even walking over the keyboard to get attention. They climb onto his lap and from there to the desk (he does allow this even though he complains).
My old JRT was glued to either one of us who was around and would sit and stare until she got her own way. The present two "speak" in growls to get attention.
Terriers - who'd have em.
 
My JRT has become (in)famous amongst my work colleagues since WFH, as he generally wanders in to my makeshift office and proceeds to find a warm spot on the floor, drops off and snores loudly! He has even featured on the website as an example of a non-motivational colleague!!!
The lab has no concept of personal space, which I hate!
 
buddylove said:
My JRT has become (in)famous amongst my work colleagues since WFH, as he generally wanders in to my makeshift office and proceeds to find a warm spot on the floor, drops off and snores loudly! He has even featured on the website as an example of a non-motivational colleague!!!
The lab has no concept of personal space, which I hate!
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I was gutted when I shared a short vid of George snoring on Facebook recently - my rubbish phone didn’t pick up the noise of him snoring! I have no idea how it didn’t, it reverberates around the whole house ?
 
Our younger one has to be beside me all the time, the other tends to be most of the time but will occasionally take himself a little distance await but always within sight. Both are very good at letting you know what they want - young one cries to have his blankie (blanket) arranged to his liking, the other grumbles away as if he is talking until you do what he wants!
 
meleeka said:
Mine is very demanding to OH. He comes it from work and she demands attention. She doesn’t do it so much to me, but when she decides she wants attention she sits and stares at me for as long as it takes for her to get what she wants.

One thing to remember is the world really does revolve around them as far as they see it.
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I have a jack Russell - but I Call her a princess ? because yes, the whole world does work around her! Simple as! She gets away with blue murder, all she has to do is slightly tilt her head and do the classic puppy dog eyes and boom.... gets what she wants!
 
Yes, ours are like that too. Something else most of them have done, if I'm in the kitchen, is sit in the dining room (adjoining - carpet on the floor whereas it's tiles in the kitchen) watching what I'm doing. They've all sat in the pretty much the same place too.
 
I came home last night to find my husband doing his online pilates class with two terriers sitting to attention at the end of the mat watching intently. He has a ball that they love to play with and they were totally focused on this. When he got on the floor to do some excercises they mobbed him for it :-). They are the best of dogs - so intelligent and so focused on their people.
 
My JRTs had to be close, if I sat down they sat on my knee, if I lay down they lay on my chest, and when I went to bed they slept under the covers.

I miss them so much :(

Lily the Lakeland is totally independent in comparison to them.

Fiona
 
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