Update on JRT and few questions...

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Hi all, just thought I would give an update on my little JRT who we have had a few weeks now.

She is fab, very clever - already walking on lead, sitting, coming, staying, leaving on command, mostly house trained, daughter has taught her to shake hands as well. Can't believe how quick she learns.... She loves her crate (thanks to Cayla for the fab puppy guide!) and knows the bedtime routine - as soon as we get up and start closing doors, getting drinks of water etc she just gets into her crate and not a peep out of her all night and she has been like that from about night 3.

I think we slightly underestimated that JRT 'big' personality as she is hilarious and very bold. At 10 weeks old she thinks nothing of giving the horses a good talking to (albeit from a fence) and giving the yard broom a good telling off!

A couple of things I would appreciate your advice on.... We are socialising with a couple of other dogs and puppies on safe ground but whereas she seems to have a bit of respect for the older dogs, the other puppies she just seems to get very over excited with and over the top and the play fighting becomes very growly and snarly and hanging onto lips and jowls and ears etc - tail still wagging but getting really stuck in ifyswim.... Should I be calming this down or just let them get on with it?

Secondly she is an absolute dustbin and eats everything from chicken and horse poo to weeds, stcks, bugs - she is catching on that we don't like this but instead of dropping it shebis now running off with it.... What do we do about that?

(I promise to post photos soon but am on iPad at the mo..)
 
Hello, I am also the proud owner of a 13 week old JRT we have had for about a month now. I was amazed how quick he learnt, he was the star of puppy class at the vets. He goes to bed without a peep and we wake him in the night for a wee. There character is just amazing, everyone falls for him. We too have the same problem, he eats everything! Ant obsessed, bumble bee obsessed (!) and generally anything else he can fit in his mouth!! He will pick something up, look at you to gauge your reaction and if he thinks he shouldn't have it he runs fast as his little legs will carry him! We have learnt that he gives up very quickly if you don't chase, make any attempt to grab and it's the best game ever. He has a cheese fetish and we can normally negotiate an exchange! He is brill out walking, normally off lead, normally carrying a stick/sheep wool/dung in his mouth! He is good with other dogs, been told off by older dogs a few times so respectful but definately rougher with puppies - when he meets his brother out on walks there is a total wrestling match. Hope you are as pleased as we are 
 
JRTs, especially pups, seem to have a rather 'unique' way of playing - it looks a lot more like fighting! But if they get hurt they usually squeak about it, provided no one is getting upset I'd leave them to it and let him tire himself out.

In terms of eating things - keep something on you at all times that is better! Cocktail sausages are great, rather than chasing pup/taking something off them, waft sausage under nose and ask pup to 'drop', then give sausage and remove offending object from reach. Unless it's poo, or a used condom, in which case, run away fast clutching sausage and squeaking excitedly, and hope pup leaves horrible thing behind!
 
I'm impressed, much better behaved than mine! She is good about going to bed and I don't have to get up at 5.00 a.m. any more. She will come shen she wants to, so I have decided that next week we do more training. She will sit, particularly if she wants her feed.
The walking on lead isn't very good, for one thing she wants to hold the lead and I put nasty tasting stuff on it, but that hasn't worked. I walk up up the road to the shop and she is very, very excited about this, although she is getting used to it. She is very friendly towards everyone, grown ups and children, but I am going to have to train her not to jump up, although everyone just goes "ah" at the moment it is going to have to stop.
Quite desperate to find some nice dogs for her to play with. Luckily all the ones we have met so far have been nice, but she needs some play time with others.

Seems to be growing out of the horse/cow poo eating luckily. Has stopped barking at horses although will bark at the cattle, which is naughty. Helps me a lot with the stables!
 
I really need to upload the video of my OH's brother's dog hanging off the mouth/back legs/tail of their sister's labrador, and riding on his back like a pony, all while making the most hideous growling/squealing noises. That lab has the patience of a saint, mine would have made a bite-size snack out of him :o
 
Orangehorse, Humbug wanted to hold the lead all the time, we left it on him in the house just trailing around for a few hours (obviously watching him) and he got bored and is now fine! Re socialisation our puppy party leader trains all dogs to sit when approached by people, her view is they can't jump up when sat down, the little man learnt this quite quick with the help of cathedral city and lots of willing friends.....! I like her theory, if they do something you don't like train them to do something you do! It's hard when everyone makes a beeline for the puppy though - of course it's exciting!!
 
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