our club happens to HAVE a border jack. ALL the BEST teams HAVE border jacks, not one person who knows what they are doing will sell a border jack to ANYONE who they do not know personaly, and its part of the contract they they MUST play flyball or agility with that dog, or give it back to the club. out clubs border jack is sweet and gentil, what breeding a border to a jack does is create a jack with an off switch. I agree that an inexperienced person should never ever own, or breed border jacks, most flyball clubs do know what they are doing, and do know just how high drive a BJ is. we will turn away anyone who we dont deem prepared for one of these dogs. they are also in extremly high demand amongst flyball people
Well, that's YOUR club. If EVERY club did that, then I suppose border jacks would not be such an issue as they are now. There are obvioulsy people out there breeding border jacks who do NOT do these things, because there are a lot of these dogs that end up in shelters and pounds, a disproportionate amount. I rescue Parson Russell terriers, I see first hand how many die at animal controls. The ONLY people in the dog fancy who think it is ok to intentionally create these mutts are certain agility/flyball people. The rest think it's an atrocity. Sorry, but that's how it is.



however you have NEVER been to our shelter, with rarly ever has more then 4 dogs, who are all adopted VERY quikley,
Well, that's great ... but it's without a doubt the exception, not the rule. Do some research, and you will see the average number of dogs euthanized in this country daily. It is appalling. Just because YOUR shelter is small, doesn't mean there isn't a pet overpopulation problem in the country.