Came across this little chap today ....

[CFC]

Pics or we'll believe you sold him to a cat food factory

[mel]

Pics or we'll believe you sold him to a cat food factory

Hi .....

Still got him obviously but he has really turned into a hand full !

We both love him to bits but if i,m honest i can see why he was up for re homing

He is really full on , not trained at all and a yappy little bugger in the night if he is not worn out enough , needless to say i,ve not been able to get on here much .

He is part trained but needs a firm but fair owner ( basically re trained ) so knows his boundaries which he does not at the moment

Thankfully this is my quiet time at work so i can spend time with him and bond .

Don,t get me wrong i knew he would be a challenge and in many ways he is perfect , very loving and great with people and other dogs , at only 9 months he is still a pup ?

Really not sure on the " bits off " thing either we never got a dog done when i was at home 30 years ago but everyone keeps asking me when i am getting him done .

Will register him at the vets next week and insure him with the same company we had Ellie with , only got 2 weeks left of the free insurance we got with him but i can get it cheaper and the last company was excellent .


Will get some decent pics up when the bugger stays still enough


Thanks all you are stars as always

[mel]

Ok i am lying i do have one picture Mrs Mel took

In our defence it was a long walk and i dashed home from work and when we got back we was knackered ......we were flat out for an hour

Can not believe i,ve posted this up i look a beached whale .

[Old Dragon]

Still got him obviously but he has really turned into a hand full !

We both love him to bits but if i,m honest i can see why he was up for re homing

Sounds like Mistie when we got her. Her first owner was an old chap who was taken ill and couldn't keep her, his family tried but they couldn't cope with her so they gave her to the rescue centre. She had been re-homed by them twice before us, both times she was returned because they couldn't cope with her either. She was a real handful, manic at times, but well worth the effort to train her. Even now she has manic 'bull run' moments but they don't last as long now.

[CFC]

Pics or we'll believe you sold him to a cat food factory

Hi .....

Still got him obviously but he has really turned into a hand full !

We both love him to bits but if i,m honest i can see why he was up for re homing

He is really full on , not trained at all and a yappy little bugger in the night if he is not worn out enough , needless to say i,ve not been able to get on here much .

He is part trained but needs a firm but fair owner ( basically re trained ) so knows his boundaries which he does not at the moment

Thankfully this is my quiet time at work so i can spend time with him and bond .

Don,t get me wrong i knew he would be a challenge and in many ways he is perfect , very loving and great with people and other dogs , at only 9 months he is still a pup ?

Really not sure on the " bits off " thing either we never got a dog done when i was at home 30 years ago but everyone keeps asking me when i am getting him done .

Will register him at the vets next week and insure him with the same company we had Ellie with , only got 2 weeks left of the free insurance we got with him but i can get it cheaper and the last company was excellent .


Will get some decent pics up when the bugger stays still enough


Thanks all you are stars as always

Terriers are lovely but they require a lot of input to get them trained, as you say he's only a puppy still. The yapping in the night is fixable but is going to take some time

Just be wary with your fences, when I was a kid we had a Jack and he could jump a four foot fence, they are quite amazing dogs (though they are probably not all Olympic jumpers)

I never had Maxi done. I think it's something only you can decide on, there is a lot of societal pressure nowadays to get them done because people are brainwashed into thinking it is automatically the right thing to do. It really has to be your own decision, there are pros and cons, it's not all pros like a lot of people say.

By the way I never even noticed you in the pic Mel till I read your comment about beached whale lol. He looks pretty angelic in the pic, how deceiving looks are, eh?

[Feline]

I would get him done, entire males have a yellow-green drippy bit on the end of their willy that they like to wipe on you
From my exoerience of rescue dogs- all of them have a 'honeymoon period' when you first get them lasting a few days, and then they start to show their manic behaviour once theyve settled in. It doesnt sound like hes doing anything too drastic so far- would be a great idea to take him to some training classes to get his brain focused. Jack-rats (sorry, thats what we call then in the trade ) are very intelligent little dogs but can also be stubborn. He looks like hes definitely found his forever home in your pic

[mel]

yuk...

off they come then that sounds gross . Got a local ladies number re dog classes sounds cool , he slept all night last night not a sound out of him i put my work jumper in with him i read the scent of you calms them down something worked anyway

[johnsb00]

now you can work with the smell of his yellow-green drippy end all over your jumper

[mel]

now you can work with the smell of his yellow-green drippy end all over your jumper

This is gross ....but i did put my jumper on from the dog bed and went to work its work washing day stuff at the weekend but i worked this morning and its my warmest one so sod it !

Was still minus 2 all day where i was working this morning out in the sticks and fog all morning bloody freezing even for me !

[CFC]

Ha ha not gross Mel, Maxi sleeps on the bed with us, it's all medieval living round our house, doubtless if we had a cow they'd be in a stable underneath the bedroom! The only thing I draw the line at is no sleeping on the sheets, my best friend lets all her 3 Yorkies sleep between the sheets with her...yuk

I could make a comment in a dog's defence about generic male drippy ends but I won't