Moobear wrote:I can't give you any ideas but l could definately give you lots pf praise. I have one JR and 2 Yorkie X Cairn - l would say more Yorkie than Cairn.
How have you managed to get 2 lovely terriors?
I would love to know your daily routine for them as l am in a real fix with mine. To be honest l had GSDs before these 3 and they are a totally different character.
I am nervous to walk mine together and not fit enough at the moment to do all 3 separately. When they start to bark the noise is like pack of screeching cats with the colume turned up.
I have had some good advice on here but would love to know how a 2 X JRT owner copes with the
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Good question. They are mother and daughter; they not like most you would hear or see. Meaning they are very calm and relax; i guess i had something to do with that as well like i'm not a hyper person, but more of a calm one and they feed off that. I have always had big breeds like the GSD, Husky, etc; then i decided i want a real chanllage and that's when i got the one JR, but it turned out that she was really good mind you (
she did have her ups and downs like ripping base boards off the wall and digging holes in the wall etc; when she was a puppy that is)so i started reading everything and anything that i could get my hands on. I even went to a training school, but by that time she was trained by me with positive methods. So i went to the training school as i wanted to become a dog trainer myself but need a dog that was untrained now that was hard to do since mine where already there with basics and trick training; so now i have a little Chi which was untrained and i took him to the training sessions to learn right from the start to the end like hands on training which was good as i not only learn a few things, but also taught me that you don't really need food as a reward, but praise and lots of it.
I have seen lots of JR's jumping,barking just going crazy, and then i come home to mind and they are calm and relaxed, but happy to see me of course which is only normal. They do chase things though like squirrals which is something i'm working on by using the word leave it as they already know this command very well. They won't pick food off the ground nor will they take food from people they know or don't know when i'm not in sight which is a good thing, but they did that on their own. JR's can be real hard to train as most will have their owner trained before you know it the dog is barking orders.
I started training my dogs at 8 weeks of age; started with basics like heel, sit, stay,come, and down; then i would start with the other commands like drop it, leave it, out, and go. Then there are the tricks like i have stated in my last post.
Oh they can be real stubborn too at times; if they don't want to do it they won't. It would be nice to meet other JR owners in my area and a group meeting sort of speak, and have fun and share ideas what has or hasn't worked. Well i hope i have answered your question if not more on how i live with not one, but two JR's, and now a Chi who thinks he's the boss in the home.
l get in a bit of panic - and don't the dogs know it. When l got Schmoo the oldest now aged 2 and a half - l already had 2 GSD's, so had a handful walking anyway. Then poor Lucy passed away not long after her 14th Birthday and a couple of months later l got Scamper the JRT aged 15 weeks,then a couple of months later got Schmoos little sister Katie, then Seiger my other GSD passed away not long after his 14th Birthday, so left with 3 unruly mutts. All my fault l know.
