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Getting a 3rd dog

19 11:37:51

Question
I have a border collie she is very nice and likes all dogs, I also have a Jack Russel terrier and he loves the border collie and trys to run her and she is very tollerant of him, so they get along great. I would like to get a female Chihuahua, will they get along, I mean the male jack russel?

Answer
It is hard to say... he might be a bit too much for a chihuahua. But sometimes those smaller dogs think they are 500# dogs, so who knows? I would try to locate a smaller bitch or two for him to interact with before I actually brought one home and then discovered that it was a huge mistake. You don't want him to be bullying a small dog and making it miserable. Please make sure that anything you buy is returnable if it doesn't work out.

Also neutering him might tone him down a bit if you haven't done that already.

Karen