I have to say that this is the type of thing the Jack Russell Terrier Club fought for a long time. One of their rules of memebership was to never register or show a JRT in AKC. Of course, AKC finally got them into the books and they have been approved in the Terrier Group rather than the Miscellaneous Group. The fact of the matter is, JRTs are more a type (or two or three) rather than a true "breed". There are the short-legged ones and the tall ones, rough coated and smooth and broken. But, the main concern was that they would be bred for looks rather than working ability (they're SERIOUS vermin killers) and that will probably happen on down the road. For now, though, they are few in number in the AKC. The same was true when we started with the Australian Cattle Dog breed 7 or so years ago. Few around and majors were difficult to find. We finally ended up selling our dog to a man that was looking for a good show dog and Bubby (Legend's Mystic Wizard) was a very handsome dog, but Brad finally had to put him with a professional handler to finish him. We all thought that sucked, because he was such a typey dog, but couldn't get the points to finish without some "help". My mother shows Border Terriers and my daughter shows various dogs as a semi-pro handler. She just acquired a Vizsla puppy and will be showing him next year and we are beginning to see that same sort of thing in these breeds as well. Still, what they've done with the GSD and even Collies and Cockers is just sad. Lassie would hang her head to see Collies in the show ring now. They have very narrow heads and small eyes and I sometimes wonder about the intelligence level. These were dogs that were originally bred to work at a distance from the handler with whistle signals or hand signals or both and were able to make some decisions on their own about handling the sheep, etc. Now, I wonder if they'd even have a clue. Well, I just did it again, didn't I??? I'm sorry.

I'm glad Lilly and Honey are enjoying the snow so much. It sounds like Lilly has been helped a lot by medication for her pain and is just back to enjoying life in general. Hooray for you, Logan, I know she's grateful for the relief.