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I have 2 Jack Russels, and I have a problem with them both.

The first Jack Russel won't stop stealing food. Shes 7 months old. She's too small to steal of counters or anything, but we have a 1 year old baby in the house, and whenever she is eating the dog is constantly trying to get the food off of her. We can't keep the dogs out all the time as there's not many places to put them in the house. We've tried so much, including punishing her, but she is completely oblivious to everything. She doesn't care if she's get punished at all, she just goes along with it like everything is ok, and then will do it again straight after. Is there anything else i can do to stop her from doing it?

The next Jack Russel is about a year old, and he's very well behaved.. he sometimes gets agressive and very protective over all the women in this house but he's never any trouble and he's been great to train.
However, over the past few weeks he keeps cowarding and crouching down like your about to beat him or something and then he urinates. Even if you go over there to stroke him or say hi, he just can't control it and gets really scared. No-one has done anything to him to make him be like this and we don't know what to do

ALL HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED Thanks! Sian

>>I have 2 Jack Russels, and I have a problem with them both.
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>>The first Jack Russel won't stop stealing food. Shes 7 months old. She's too small to steal of counters or anything, but we have a 1 year old baby in the house, and whenever she is eating the dog is constantly trying to get the food off of her. We can't keep the dogs out all the time as there's not many places to put them in the house. We've tried so much, including punishing her, but she is completely oblivious to everything. She doesn't care if she's get punished at all, she just goes along with it like everything is ok, and then will do it again straight after. Is there anything else i can do to stop her from doing it?
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>>The next Jack Russel is about a year old, and he's very well behaved.. he sometimes gets agressive and very protective over all the women in this house but he's never any trouble and he's been great to train.
>>However, over the past few weeks he keeps cowarding and crouching down like your about to beat him or something and then he urinates. Even if you go over there to stroke him or say hi, he just can't control it and gets really scared. No-one has done anything to him to make him be like this and we don't know what to do
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>>ALL HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED Thanks! Sian

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You're going to need some expert help in person with the dogs. I have an article on Behavior Specialists and Dog Trainers that can help, one on Child Safety with Dogs, some on aggression, Stealing, Terriers--but your situation is very complicated, and reading isn't going to get you through it.

With a young child in the situation, you could be looking at child endangerment charges if you don't get the right help. People have lost their kids...the courts are getting very serious about these situations.

A JRT only looks small. Think of these dogs as having the power of 50-pound dogs, because that is more realistic for the breed. The articles are at the link below my signature.
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Kathy Diamond Davis, author, "Therapy Dogs: Training Your Dog to Reach Others," 2nd edition, and the free Canine Behavior Series articles at http://www.veterinarypartner.com/Content.plx?P=SRC&S=1&SourceID=47