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Rat Terrier Dog Breed Profile

by ttmw

I am a happy owner of two rat terriers. They are half brother and
half sister and other than coat color and size and natural
hunting abilities they are not at all alike. The male "Bingo" is
bossy and impudent and outlandishly boisterous. The female "Zoey"
is shy and somewhat retiring and loves nothing better than to
curl up in your lap and be petted.

I can speak with authority that they are not the dog for
everyone. First of all they are not "cuddly" in the sense of a
lap dog. They have short hard coats and hard bodies...not a lot
of soft fur, that sort of thing. BUT they look at you with their
liquid eyes and can melt your heart with the best of the soft
cuddly little fru fru dogs!

Their coats do shed a lot..( I also own large hairy goobery
slobbery newfoundland dogs and let me tell you the little rat
terriers shed equally as much AND their hair is short and "sharp"
and has a tendency to stick better on the furniture than the
longer hairs of the Newfoundlands.

Rat terriers are definitely a noisy dog. My son, who owns
Goldens, is temporarily keeping my male rat terrier while I am
going through a move. He LOVES the fact that Bingo sets up an
obnoxious and noisy barking at the least sign of any intruder
whether it be human or animal...and yes indeed they do certainly
let you know when there is an "invader" in their territory.

The goldens are nowhere near as noisy and they are prone to wag
their tails and greet everyone affectionately while Bingo jumps
back and forth and perhaps even appears threatening with his
loud, shrill, repeated yapping at various delivery men and
salesmen who arrive and depart. (This is the MALE, the female is
merely noisy but wouldn't dream of appearing to actually leap at
someone.)

The rat terriers have done more damage to my household than a
newfoundland ever did. Both of them are chewers and even with age
this has not changed. A record of the "losses":

two arms from two couches...(stuffing removed)

the battery cover to my computer camera ( it is now taped to
hold the batteries in place...thank goodness for duct tape!)

the remote control to my TV (the end got chewed off but if you
point it JUST RIGHT it will still turn the TV on and off)...

Various denominations of paper money ranging from one dollar to
a twenty dollar bill...

One leg of my antique library table now looks like hash...

and the list goes on!

I originally got a "rat terrier" because I had heard that they
were "varmint dogs" and basically I was sick of the little four
footed "varmints" who seem to frequent my kitchen every winter.
Believe it or not, I truly have not had a mouse in the house
since the day I brought home the rat terriers. They may be there
but somehow they just don't have the bravado to run across the
floor any more while I am talking on the phone or sitting at the
computer. The also get "varmints" in the yard, from squirrels to
grinnies to dead birds.

Bingo buries his grinnies and jealously digs them up and
re-buries them somewhere else if you are watching him. He watches
out of the corner of his eye and if you see where he buries it he
will look at you suspiciously and dig it back up and run around
the corner of the house and find another spot!

They get along famously with my Newfoundland. Except the male,
he gets all fired up when a new dog comes on the scene and he
just has to show his superiority, by reaching out and "nailing"
the big dog in the face as he sits on the arm of the chair where
I am sitting. He shows his jealousy to the new dog in this
manner. I always hold his mouth shut and tell him NO but he still
tries it for several weeks until the new dog has settled in and
become a member of the family.

Once the new dog, be it old or young, is accepted into Bingo's
life then he plays endlessly with them, chewing on their legs and
playing hide and seek..the two rat terriers together can
literally make the newfs dizzy, racing back and forth and around
the house at top speed and barking at each other all the while.
The Newfs love this entertainment..I admit it, so do I!

Rat terriers are not for everyone. But if you dont like cats,
and you have mice, you might want to give it a try! You get a lot
more interest added in to your life than a cat would give you (I
think so anyhow!)

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