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Jack Russell Terrier Open Thread

In memory of George

Some heroes walk among us on four feet.

 

 

 

 

The usual Open Thread rules apply:  be concise, be charitable and, above all, be amusing!

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Michael Paterson-Seymour
Michael Paterson-Seymour
Monday, January 14, AD 2019 2:12am

I always liked this epitaph by Lord Byron

Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who
possessed Beauty without Vanity,
Strength without Insolence,
Courage without Ferocity,
and all the Virtues of Man,
without his Vices.
This Praise, which would be unmeaning
Flattery if inscribed over human
ashes is but a just tribute to the Memory
of BOATSWAIN, a Dog.

[“Boatswain” should be pronounced in the English fashion: “Bo’sun.”]

Jeanne Bergeron
Jeanne Bergeron
Monday, January 14, AD 2019 3:09am

Seemed like a enjoyable dog. I liked the one with the windshield wipers

Philip Nachazel
Philip Nachazel
Monday, January 14, AD 2019 4:06am

Here’s to Lord Nim, King of the Snerts. Don’t ask. My brothers family late Jack Russell.

Art Deco
Art Deco
Monday, January 14, AD 2019 6:14am

Checked with our cat. He says the only pets he wants are the ones he already has. And it’s time for breakfast.

CAM
CAM
Monday, January 14, AD 2019 8:31am

MP-S, it’s pronounced Bo’sunmate in the US Navy also.
It’s Toliver for Taliaferro and Stanton for Staunton in VA. Linguists studying speech in rural Eastern Virginia and Southern Maryland liken the local talk to Elizabethan times. We have two chimlies on our historic house.

CAM
CAM
Monday, January 14, AD 2019 8:41am

When at the racetrack with my dad I always enjoyed seeing those little dogs with the pacing horses.
Friends of ours had a Jack Russell who would show off by taking a running leap into their pool; paddle to a float; sunbathe for a few minutes. Then off he’d go again.
Years ago a man would exercise his terrier by having him hunt rats at night in Lafayette Sq., Wash. DC. The dog did a better job than the Sanitation Dept.

Foxfier
Admin
Monday, January 14, AD 2019 8:56am

The last Jack Russell in my family was when my dad was a kid.

He got bitten by a rattle snake next to the house; after Grandma killed the snake, he went and laid down in the creek for several days…and fully recovered. As dad put it: not the treatment he would’ve wanted, but it worked.

Michael Paterson-Seymour
Michael Paterson-Seymour
Monday, January 14, AD 2019 12:02pm

CAM wrote, “When at the racetrack with my dad I always enjoyed seeing those little dogs with the pacing horses.”

Hunts always keep a few Jack Russells, for when foxes go to earth. They mix with the pack and can hold their own with the Foxhounds, who tend to be very respectful of them.

What they lack in speed, they more than make up for in stamina.

William P. Walsh
William P. Walsh
Monday, January 14, AD 2019 1:05pm

Our favorite four legged friend, Finnegan, is about twelve years old, in poor health, and five thousand miles away. One has to love the frantic comedy of the breed. Were I not too old, would have one.

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