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Madenhaven Acres

JRTCA Jack Russell Terrier Breeder
Our dogs are DNA tested and registered with the JRTCA. Our dogs are loved and part of the family.
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We try to go to the 3 "local" trials each year, and hunt vermin when we get the opportunity.

07/02/2024

Well geez, I took all these pictures the other day and cropped them because everyone has peepers now, then apparently forgot to post them! 🤔🙄🤭🥰

06/29/2024

We have 3 out of five with peepers today and we are 2 weeks old 🥰 👀 👀 👀 😁

06/26/2024

We have all reached the 1lb club and are doing well 🥰

06/25/2024

We survived our very great and busy weekend, it was wonderful to see friends and play with the dogs! Thank you so much to all those behind the scenes who work so hard to make this happen for the rest of us, we love and appreciate you all!!!!!

06/21/2024

Being a mommy is hard work 💜💤😴

06/20/2024

Happy 8th birthday to my bestest buddy, words can't say how much I love this dog ❤️ I'm a day late on posting but not because I forgot, it's just been a little busy getting ready for our next adventure 😉

06/19/2024

3 days old today 🥰

06/16/2024

This little momma at 12 1/2 inches and about 12 pounds is amazing! Look at these weights and gains on just day 1 😲🥰😇 little porkers!! 💪

06/15/2024

We have babies!, They may have been earlier than expected but they are all great weights 2 girls and 3 boys

06/13/2024

Awe sweet little Honor, you are looking rather large 🤔 one week to go. 💜

06/06/2024

Tuggy bug, last one who hoo... ok his mom guilty me into brushing her and I tiny groom job lol although you can never tell with her, the coat 🤯😅🤣 love ya too Lady

06/06/2024

Three more done, one to go. Gunny bunny, Getty turdy, Hottie tottie, or Gunny, Grr Tood, and Hot. 😅🥰

06/06/2024

4 dogs groomed and 4 to go... getting ready for the Tri State trial, come on out and play!!

06/02/2024

Feeling LOVED ❤️ Since I am practically living in my kennel building, working on colored pencil pet portraits, Tony put in a portable air conditioner to keep me and the dogs comfortable!!! 🤗🥰💜💙💚💛🧡❤

06/02/2024

I think it is safe to announce the next litter on the way. Madenhaven Acres A Legacy "Honor" and Forget-me-not Hot Topic are expecting June 18th-ish 🥰

05/26/2024

My last little boy did end up going home today, congratulations to the Seibert family, and he got a quick groom session in before he left. 💙

05/25/2024

Congratulations to the Baker family on their new little girl G/G 3 💜

05/25/2024

Congratulations Rick Mozzetti on your new little girl Olive. 🥰

05/25/2024

Bye bye sweet Elsa, congratulations to the Draggoo family on your new little girl. 🥰

05/24/2024

Are you ready 🤣😂🥰

05/20/2024

One baby has flown the coop, to amazing repeat buyers who own a small business called Blue Mountain Donut Company and let me tell you, they are YUMMY!! Happy trails little Gracie 💓

05/18/2024

Shhhhhh be very, very quiet 🤫 😅🥰😴💤💤💤

05/18/2024

Puppies are 8 weeks old today and have received their 2nd vaccine and worming. If I can get my chores done I will try to post pictures later today! I look forward to meeting you all next week ❤️

05/13/2024

They had a nap/ I need one lol

05/12/2024

Happy Mothers day 😁 Tony got me a beautiful Fuchsia!

05/12/2024

Puppy packs are ready, and paperwork is almost done. Time to schedule your pickup times, please pm me 😁 only 2 weeks to go 🤗

05/11/2024

7 weeks old, puppy weigh in day 😉🤗

05/11/2024

7 weeks today 😇🥰

05/10/2024

THE JACK RUSSELL: HISTORY WITH A WARNING

How did the Kennel Club come to add the "Parson Russell Terrier" to its roles 100 years after the Reverend John Russell died, and what does this story tell us about the role of all-breed registries in the world of honest working dogs?

▪️The Rise and Fall of the Fox Terrier▪️

The Reverend John Russell was born in 1795 and acquired his first white foxing terrier in 1815 from a milkman. Russell’s claim to fame is not that he invented the fox terrier, but that he was “the old man of terrier work” when the Kennel Club was founded in 1873.

Like most new organizations, the Kennel Club began on shaky legs, and sought to promote itself by trying to associate itself with big names as quickly as possible. Though John Russell had retired and sold off his hounds a few years earlier, he was still famous, and so he was tapped to judge fox terriers at the Crystal Palace Show of 1874.

Apparently, Russell did not much like what he saw, however, for he never agreed to judge a Kennel Club show again, and he refused to let his own dogs be registered.

Russell later described his own dogs as:

"True terriers…but differing from the present show dogs as the wild eglantine differs from a garden rose."

Working terrier men of the era agreed, and they too stayed away from the shows to the extent that by 1893 Rawdon Lee, author of Modern Dogs, noted the absence of hunt terriers in the ring:

"[Those terriers] best adapted for hard work… are cross-bred, hardy dogs, specially trained for the purpose, although many of the 'pedigree' animals will do similar duty to the best of their ability, but their 'pedigree' and no doubt inbreeding to a certain extent, has made them constitutionally and generally weaker than their less blue-blooded cousins."

Bam! The Kennel Club Fox Terrier had ceased to be a working dog in less than 20 years time!

▪️The Rise of the Jack Russell Terrier▪️

Dog dealers selling working terriers at the turn of the Twentieth Century sought to differentiate their working dogs from the non-working and over-large terriers paraded at Kennel Club shows.

Advertisements for working dogs no longer called them “fox terriers,” but instead offered up "Jack Russell" terriers, the name Robert Leighton was already calling them in his 1910 book, Dogs and All About Them.

By 1930, a survey of over 100 mounted hunts in the U.K. found "Jack Russell" terriers listed, as well as "white hunt terriers" and "Devonshire working terriers". When the term “fox terrier” was used, it was carefully proceeded by the words "cross," "cross bred," "non-pedigree," or even "mongrel".

No one was using a pure-bred Kennel Club dog!

World War II saw a decline in the mounted hunts, but things roared back in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, as easy access to cars made it easier to get out into the countryside.

In 1974, the Jack Russell Terrier Club of Great Britain was founded "to promote and preserve the working terrier known as the Jack Russell." In 1976, its U.S. analog was created -- the Jack Russell Terrier Club of America.

Both clubs have prospered and stuck to their original mission, and today the Jack Russell Terrier Club of America remains the largest Jack Russell terrier club in the world.

▪️The Kennel Club Steps In▪️

With an increase in the popularity of the Jack Russell terrier, a push was initiated to pull the “old” fox-working terrier into The Kennel Club.

In 1990 this goal was finally achieved with representatives from several smaller Jack Russell Clubs meeting to draw up a conformation "standard" that called for a dog standing 12-15 inches at the withers. The new dog was to be called the “Parson Jack Russell Terrier," a name invented special for the occassion.

The origin of the new Kennel Club standard is a bit vague. It is said to be adopted from one originally written by Arthur Heinemann, an American-born badger digging man and dog dealer from the 1920s, but no evidence to support this claim has ever been presented.

Gerald Jones, who hunted with Heinemann and knew him well, says Heinemann did not value the kind of larger dog saluted at the top of the Kennel Club’s standard:

"He always said there was nothing a good fourteen inch terrier could do that a good eleven inch terrier couldn't do better…. Some of his best workers were no more than ten inches."

And, of course, Heinemann, like every other digging man, was opposed to Kennel Club registration. Jones quotes Heinemann directly on this point:

"[I am] very much opposed to the modern show terrier and his type. Once you begin to breed it for show type, you lose the working qualities upon which you pride those terriers. I have been, I might say, the protagonist of the terrier bred for sport as against the terrier bred for show. I have no interest in cup hunting."

Russell and Heinemann may not have had any interest in cup hunting, but the Kennel Club hierarchy did, and so a few syncophants were rounded up, and the thing was done.

In 1999 The Kennel Club changed the name of the dog to the "Parson Russell Terrier" -– another name invented wholecloth and without historical roots.

The American Kennel Club followed the U.K. Kennel Club in embracing both the 12-15 inch standard and in embracing the various invented names and name changes.

In 2005, The Kennel Club added a bit more confusion to the story by changing the standard for the dog they were now calling the Parson Russell Terrier, extending it to encompass dogs ranging from 10 to 15 inches tall at the shoulders.

The American Kennel Club, however, has not followed the U.K Kennel Club in changing the standard, instead chosing to simply create another breed of dog (now in its Foundation Stock Service) called the "Russell Terrier."

The breed description of this dog claims it "originated" in the United Kingdom, but that it was "developed" in Australia -- a country which John Russell never so much as visited, which had no Jack Russells at all until the very late 1960s, and where the dog in question remains a pet and show dog that never sees a moment's work!

▪️Only Two Types▪️

How to sort it all out, then?

I think simplicity is best.

In my opinion, there are only two types of terriers in the world: those that work and those that don't.

The white ones that work, and which come from a long line of workers, are called Jack Russell Terriers, and they are called that out of respect for the working standard that the Reverend John Russell himself honored throughout his life.

What are we to make of the Kennel Club dogs? Simple: They are not Jack Russell terriers.

They are not Jack Russells in name, nor are they Jack Russell terriers in terms of performing regular honest work.

They are simply another small terrier, same as so many in the Kennel Club.

There is nothing wrong with that, but there is nothing very special either.

The good news is that with the name changes, no one will ever confuse these Kennel Club pretenders with the real thing – the real Jack Russell Terrier.

▪️A Lesson To Learn▪️

Is there a larger lesson to be gleaned from this history?

Indeed, I think there is, and it is this: No breed of working dog has ever been made in the show ring, while every working breed pulled on to the Kennel Club’s roles has been wecked or divided.

This, I think, is history with a warning!

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John Russell illustration by Kevin Brockbank
for the May 2011 issue of Dogs Today where this piece first appeared.

05/07/2024

And they are out 😴😴😴

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