His middle name is the last name of both his parents, sometimes pet lovers can be mean just like everyone else in the world.

Uh, this doesn't seem cruel to me by any means. I have a friend named Jack Russell and some thought was given to his name by his parents. He is tough and wirey and means business even though he is short stature. He never one moment has had less than pride in his name. Are you so sure your friend is ashamed of his name or is hurt by it in some way? You might we way off base.

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i have one and i think they're really good loyal dogs . mine is very energetic for most of the time , loves to play all the time .. she always has a toy with her, even when she goes to sleep she has to bring a toy to bed with her lol . as soon as i pick up one of her toys she goes hypo and wont stop jumping , its like shes a different dog when shes with her toys . shes really good with kids too , very gentle . when my little niece and nephew come over they pick her up and annoy her but she just lets them do whatever they want lol its cute . she was easy to train and at the end of the day she does relax and cuddle up to you , not constantly hypo . hope this helped

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Well i was walking him and i saw another Jack Russell and he was so i got jealous lol. But he will only listen to me if i have food not if i just pet him. Also tips on socializing him? Some dogs he okay with but some he attacks them lol. I want to take him to the puppy park lol.

Leashes are wonderful things for dogs. Leashes mean getting to go out of the house and yard to all sorts of interesting places. Leashes mean enjoying the outside world, protected from myriad dangers. With a little training, your dog will happily greet the sight of the leash, and walk along on it easily without pulling.

Does this sound too good to be true? There's a trick to it! The hardest part is remembering to use the trick every single time you and your dog use the leash together. Once you form the habit, your dog will too.

It's a good idea to start with treats in the early stages, to develop the ability to bring the dog to your side with a minimum of effort and without stress to either of you. See Attention, Please! for those instructions. If your dog is still a puppy, you'll want to do the foundation training as noted in Leash Training for Puppies. The puppy leash training also applies with a timid dog who is afraid of the leash.

For competition training to heel in formal obedience, it's wise to continue the treats. The sport of obedience requires precise position and movement from the dog, and skillful treat training achieves such precision while keeping the dog happy.

Going for walks is not the same as obedience competition, though. Treats will help make walks into happy experiences for dogs who tend to be fearful, so don't hesitate to continue the treats if they seem to help at all. Observe your dog's body language to make sure the dog enjoys the walks as much as you do.

If you are training your dog for dog sports, you'll need a different word cue for recreational walking. The heel or other competition cue word means precision, and certain other things, depending on the sport involved. It also means full attention.

Walking down the street to exercise and socialize, you'll take your attention off your dog and allow the dog's attention to wander, too. So you need a cue for this walking that doesn't require full attention. It can be any word or phrase you like. You can also teach your dog one word cue for walking on your left and another for walking on your right side!

When the dog pulls on the leash, pressure on the dog can cause damage, no matter what type of collar you use. The constant pressure also reduces the dog's ability to feel your motions with the leash, resulting in the need for excessive pressure to restrain the dog if that should become necessary. This excessive pressure can cause temperament problems in some dogs.

Keeping a loose leash is really simple. All you have to do is react every time the leash goes tight. Don't try to determine when the dog is pulling. Instead, make it black and white by reacting whenever there is tension on the leash.

So here's what you do. Start out for your walk. Make sure your arm holding the leash is comfortably bent, elbow in to your side. Walking along with your arm extended is not a good control position for working a dog. The instant the leash goes tight use one of three options. 1) Stop — works well for sensitive dogs and young puppies. 2) Back up — works well for highly trained dogs. You can have the dog come to heel position from left or right directions (vary it), or take backward steps. 3) Quickly straighten your arm to create momentary slack in the leash, and step off abruptly in a new direction, taking a right turn or right-about turn.

With the third option, the dog may feel a slight pop on the leash, but will immediately realize that you made a move and the dog missed it. This doesn't feel unfair or upsetting to the dog, and gives the dog an easy way to prevent it from happening again, by simply paying more attention to your movements. Moving this way gives the dog something to DO, and you employ body language to clearly communicate what you need. You don't have to be athletic, either. Just a few quick steps are enough of a change of direction for even a large dog.

When the dog turns attention to you and moves to get back close to you, praise, praise, praise! And keep moving — make yourself and your actions unpredictable enough and interesting enough that the dog has to make an effort to keep with you. Continue to generously praise the dog for this effort.

The loose leash needs to be your new habit, for all situations. Never stand there, or walk along, with the leash tight again. The dog will quickly think you WANT it tight if you go back to that habit, even after you've taught the dog to walk on a loose leash. It's so natural for the dog to pull when the leash is tight that most dogs, even trained dogs, will nearly always do it when someone tightens up on the leash. In fact, the dog may HAVE to pull on the leash when the leash is tight, to keep from being off balance.

It's really we humans who cause this problem because by holding the leash tight, we teach dogs that a tight leash is normal. That's why it is so quick to retrain a dog on this. And forever afterward, you'll have an easier dog!

When you get used to this handling, it's very good-natured and happy on your part, and the dog has a great time, too. You'll always need to react to a tight leash with some sort of change in direction for the life of the dog, but it becomes second nature. You won't look foolish to the neighbors, you'll look fantastic.

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i bought a fish from the pet store just today..and well..The owner told me it was a young flowerhorn,Its only about an inch and a half,But Im confused coz i think it looks like a jack dempsey ..how do i know if its a jack dempsey or a flowerhorn…Help!

they can look very similar baby cichlids.

baby jack dempseys:
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baby flowerhorn, colours maybe slightly different though, that's the trouble with hybrids.
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the easiest way for sure is to get a photo of it and post it one of the many many cichlid/flowerhorn messageboards that are out there.

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also, I saw another electric blue jack dempsey at the pet shop … but there was a lot of nice yellow color in him. If i buy that fish, do you think its color will change too?

Yes most jacks and other fish will have their colors come in later down the line. Like my Flower Horn. He was mostly gray for about a year. Then he started to become a red. Now he is a brilliant deep red. So with a lot of cichlids the color will come as the fish matures.

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In a perfect world, animals would be free to live their lives to the fullest: raising their young, enjoying their native environments, and following their natural instincts. However, domesticated dogs and cats cannot survive "free" in our concrete jungles, so we must take as good care of them as possible. People with the time, money, love, and patience to make a lifetime commitment to an animal can make an enormous difference by adopting from shelters or rescuing animals from a perilous life on the street. But it is also important to stop manufacturing "pets," thereby perpetuating a class of animals forced to rely on humans to survive."
-PETA pamphlet, Companion Animals: Pets or Prisoners?
"I don’t use the word "pet." I think it’s speciesist language. I prefer "companion animal." For one thing, we would no longer allow breeding. People could not create different breeds. There would be no pet shops. If people had companion animals in their homes, those animals would have to be refugees from the animal shelters and the streets. You would have a protective relationship with them just as you would with an orphaned child. But as the surplus of cats and dogs (artificially engineered by centuries of forced breeding) declined, eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship – enjoyment at a distance."
-Ingrid Newkirk, PETA vice-president, quoted in The Harper's Forum Book, Jack Hitt, ed., 1989, p.223.
"It is time we demand an end to the misguided and abusive concept of animal ownership. The first step on this long, but just, road would be ending the concept of pet ownership."
-Elliot Katz, President, In Defense of Animals, "In Defense of Animals," Spring 1997

Have you ever heard of more crap then this? Dogs WERE living on their own years a go. THEY decided to join us humans for their benefit. What we humans have done is provide, MOST of them a better life and protection. In turn, they have provided us with their skills. It is only when we as humans try to intervene and start doing stupid things, like breeding dogs that do not conform to their original purpose and then treat our dogs like humans that we start having problems. Peta needs help.

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Well I have a girl jack russle terrior, and everytime we pick her up and try to pet her she goes for our hands. She licks them at first, and then starts bitting our hands. Please someone help I don't want to get rid of her.

We got a dog that was abandoned by her owner, and she was never really well-trained before that, and she was 6 when we got her. I was afraid the biting would never stop because she was so old! I read somewhere that you have to talk "dog talk" to them. In this instance, you yelp loudly when they hurt you, just like your dog would do if another dog bit HER. We did that, and Sadie stopped and looked at us, and looked very sad like she was sorry. It happened one or two more times, and we yelped when she did it, and now she doesn't do it anymore.

It doesn't cost anything and might help! You feel a little silly doing it, but it sure made sense to us, and to Sadie!

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They're not exactly pets, but I would prefer a jenny.

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Looking for a dog. I don’t want one that is a ton of trouble and too small to take care of it self, but also don’t want one too big to ride in the front seat of truck with me. Just looking for a one to be my best friend.

you should diffinately get one. I have one. his name is caesar. We got him when he was just born and we taught him to not be as hyper. it worked. but if you want a hyper dog you should get a jack russel. there sooo fun!!

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I have 2 jack russells, a boxer, a husky, pom.,fish and a stray cat. I actually paid about $700 for the boxer, the jacks and the pom, and well the fish were about $10.00 . The others were given to me. Is it stupid to have to pay money for a pet?

Absolutely stupid.

Buying pets just encourages more people to breed them when we already have a major companion pet overpopulation problem.

Rescued my kitten: Free + vet bills/shots etc

Adopted my Sheperd/Sharpei:100$ adoption fee included spay/microchip/vet check

Adopted my Sheperd mix for 60$ included neuter/microchip/vet check

Plus, I have two foster kitties who are recovering from URIs, not mine permanently, but fun to have extra kitties around and be able to do my part by volunteering my time and my home.

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