just saw this thread

wanna show off my JRT + Maltese pup. His name is Combi and I adopted him last week. He should be around 5 months old.



Very cute lil fella. nice to cuddle when I sleep! My mom pampers him like mad. He's really active but sometimes when he sleeps... takes up alot of space.. have to push him around and he doesn't bother waking up
Loves his tennis balls. sometimes chase after the ball but can't break... crash into the door

I have 2 adult dogs that tolerates with him but Combi think's that he's big enough to bully the bigger dogs

hehehe.

yeah.. I noticed tht. I'm just worried though about leaving him home alone for 8 hours when I go to school. my mom suggested to put him with my adult female dog since she tolerates him better and she's more gentle...

is that alright? or should I just leave him alone in the house?

lol. my adults dogs, at least my female is alright. she has this big-sisterly instinct towards combi. she even lets him eat from her bowl and he's the one growling at her

my adult male dog is more like the strict uncle. he'll allow you to poke around all you want until he gets really irritated then he barks and sometimes snaps at the naughty one but without any intention of hurting. he just scares the lil fella.

I'm just afraid tht combi would think tht he's the big guy there. he has tried barking and growling at my big dogs before but this afternoon's play session was alright.

left combi home alone for 12 hours today.... not alot of damage but half of my comic book gone

he stole my mom's rubber door stoppers he loves tennis balls so we're getting more of those or a solid rubber ball.

we're kinda used to the biting because I've had 3 dogs since puppies. chewed up my bike seats and pedals

lol. he's really good at fetch. he knows how to bring the ball back to whoever has thrown it... but he doesn't realease the ball I've tried the "exchange with treat" method... he ignored the ball and focused on the treat
"exchange with another toy".... have you seen a puppy with two tennis balls in his mouth? (only for a few seconds)

how tall and heavy do JRTs actually grow?

cuz mine's starting to look like a border collie already (he's mixed JRT and maltese but he's getting pretty big) but still so lovable nonetheless.

Some of his habits and odd character:

- His favourite TV channel is Playhouse Disney. We didn't want him to be lonely so we on the TV for him... and how we know tht Channel 63 is his fave is tht he poops in front of the TV when we put on a different channel! This happened a few times. When it's channel 63, no poop. different channel, got poop. Since when, we put channel 63 and no more poop his favourite programmes are Madeline, Jojo's Circus and Stanley. Also, TNA wrestling every friday.

- We couldn't exactly toilet train him... he developed a habit of going to the upstairs toilet and pooping in there. We didn't approve at first but then he would keep opening the door (no lock so we just close it) and pooping inside... also since then, he's kinda trained himself to poop in the toilet. So, when he feels like pooping when he's watching tv, he'd run upstairs to poop

- He loves playing with water! We put a large pail 1/2 filled with water and he'd splash the water, get himself all wet then charges into other dog that is dry We hope to take him swimming one day.

- my mom let him play with a 500ml 100 plus bottle one day. I told my mom that maybe he can open the bottle cap... and he managed! although it was only one time

hmm... He's much heavier. 9kg. I just think tht it's kinda funny cuz his mom's a maltese... so I didn't think tht he'd grow this big

good luck with the breeding!

If I'm at home and the tv is off, he's ok... but if the TV's off when we're not home... we can expect a HUGE mess! he'll be chewing up stuff

nah... that's not a temper. He's just bored... A JRT! with no one to play with or even have around for at least 8 hours every day! We're glad enough that he can be entertained by tv.

technically, that'd be the appropriate thing to do but all this while, we don't train our dogs by the book. We understand them, their character and we come to a compromise. In return, we get wonderful protective companions who we can rely on. And I think Combi took after me. I'm in front of the tv anytime I'm home and sometimes even when I'm sleeping or eating.

hehe. yeah. It's my mom's training. My dogs are pampered but not spoiled though cuz my mom's strict. Just like how she trained me! I'm an only child and I get to "manja" but I'm not spoiled.

My dogs have the ability to understand how we feel about people. They can recognise who are out friends by how we react with the people who come over. Even when I just "pretend" to like someone, my dogs will know and would hardly entertain those ppl. If they know that I dislike some people, they'd bark at them