Yay, Raksha! And yes, I would love to see current pics of the pretty girl. :) They can be protective when provoked, but they are smart about it; the one time any of my hybrids ever expressed any protectiveness was Fenris, when a kind of funky guy got a little too close to me in Golden Gate Park once. She growled a very low and menacing growl, and this was Fen, the most personable of all my pack. He backed off quickly. I am sorry you had a burglar; that must have been awful! But I'm glad Raksha was there to make her presence known.
Fen and Jez were/are pretty trustworthy with large male dogs and any dogs that they knew personally; Pryde was trustworthy with female stranger dogs and dogs he knew personally, but I never trusted him. Too big, quick on the aggression trigger, and unpredictable; even when the situation was probably safe, I often wouldn't risk it.
JRTs are just nuts as a breed, but they can, like pretty much any dog, be made into something socially acceptable if they're trained and brought up well. Too many terrier people seem to think it's cute to see their dogs be 'feisty.' I'll never forget the pair of them that I saw at the vet's once, who had come out the wrong end of a scrap with a German Shepherd. Frankenrussels...
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Date: 2010-06-01 04:53 pm (UTC)Fen and Jez were/are pretty trustworthy with large male dogs and any dogs that they knew personally; Pryde was trustworthy with female stranger dogs and dogs he knew personally, but I never trusted him. Too big, quick on the aggression trigger, and unpredictable; even when the situation was probably safe, I often wouldn't risk it.
JRTs are just nuts as a breed, but they can, like pretty much any dog, be made into something socially acceptable if they're trained and brought up well. Too many terrier people seem to think it's cute to see their dogs be 'feisty.' I'll never forget the pair of them that I saw at the vet's once, who had come out the wrong end of a scrap with a German Shepherd. Frankenrussels...