Esk Kennels - Jack Russell Terriers

01/09/2025

Henry just being towed around by Reddy

01/09/2025

My office assistants for the day. I gave in and got them a bed.

30/08/2025

Nellie and Phil. She’s sure is one cutie. I see she has the jrt ‘thinking ears’ position! Growing up beautifully🥰

28/08/2025

🎉🎉🎉WOWEE🎉🎉🎉

Not often you get an Australian Champion title in the mail, but last week I received SEVEN!! And seven Breeders Certificates☺️

Showing and grooming isn’t natural to me, I’m from a hunting background, so to title seven Jack Russells is a big deal for me. All bar the neuter, these dogs had to beat each other and other titled Jack Russells. So now the following jacks will have their titles framed and added to the wall of fame.

🐶CH. NEWESK OH IM AWESOME (King Julian)
🐶CH. NEWESK DRAGON SLAYER (Dragon)
🐶CH. NEWESK TROUBLENEVALOOKSOGOOD (Trouble)
🐶CH. NEWESK RIVULET (Abbie)
🐶CH. AGAINST ALL ODDS (Lucky)
🐶CH. NEWESK GIVERS AND TAKERS (GT)
🐶CH. NEWESK COMIN IN HOT (Flame)

Thankyou to all those people have helped me achieve these results, it’s not easy to find up to six handlers for a line up! But those days of big numbers are over, it’s time to relax and just concentrate on the younger pups coming through. It’s pleasing to look back on how the dogs have improved.

28/08/2025

Easter 2026 - what a great event to come along and see all the different events that are available!

Make a note of this event! A weekend celebrating dogs will feature a range of activities, demonstrations, and opportunities to ask questions.
🐶🐶 More details will be shared soon.🐶🐶

28/08/2025

Read the below article and this is exactly why I’m calling out for breeders. We need breeders to keep the gene pool alive, to breed those beautiful old lines before we lose them forever. They may not be trendy for the show types, but the bloodlines are way too valuable to lose.

I don’t give too hoots about if it’s ’show standard’ or not, I’m more interested if it can hunt. I remember Eddie Chapman once said that prick ears and colours don’t determine if a dog could hunt (or something along those lines). I’ve always said I chase lines that I know produce hunters, my best hunter is White Eye, who has no pigment on one eye, so would never win anything in the show ring. There wouldn’t be many Fox holes she couldn’t work and her work ethic on wallaby is second to none.

Show trends change, years ago they were bricks with legs, the real hunting terriermen would look at photos from Melbourne Royal and laugh at the dogs. Now we are seeing tan&white dogs with big floppy hound ears that look more like a schnauzer than a JRT.

Hopefully if I can encourage only one or two people to breed, it may save some of these wonderful old lines. I’ll do some digging around to find out exactly how many JRT originally were changed over the ANKC, be interesting to see how big the genetic pool originally was.

Now I’m going to watch puppies play and thank my lucky stars that we aren’t facing the issues many pedigree breeds are!

Background Dog breeds are known for their distinctive body shape, size, coat color, head type and behaviors, features that are relatively similar across members of a breed. Unfortunately, dog breeds are also characterized by distinct predispositions to disease. We explored the relationships between....

27/08/2025

🏡🏡Crawford has found a home🏡🏡
Crawford is coming up nine weeks old this weekend and still looking for his forever home. He is the boy version of my keeper girl Tangle. Very very sweet boy.

27/08/2025

Australian Champion Hollybrook Jack Daz (Imp NZL) - Australian Champion Newesk Brass Buttons

DOB 01/08/2025

These are more like the JRT I originally bred. They are super athletic, beautiful toplines and cocky little attitudes. The handsome little boy at the back reminds me so much of Pinjarra Meg-A-Bounce in looks and how he is starting to work stuff out. Meg was an absolute superstar; Natiol Show winner, natural born hunter and great couch warmer!

Daz is the sire of a number of my homebred Australian Champions. Brassy is one of the very few JRT in Australia that have hunted fox one week and shown the following weekend! She’s the real deal!

There are a couple girls and the boy available.

Show, hunt, dog sports, pets… the choice is endless with these guys.

Ready to go 26/09/2025.

26/08/2025

Lil George is on his way to his new home. Fly safely little man🥰

23/08/2025

Last two rough coat boys from Flynn-Rita litter looking for new homes and ready to go now.

All girls have been sold, but there will be a couple girls available from Daz&Brassy litter. Watch page for photos.

20/08/2025

Three puppies are available and ready to go from 23/8/2025.
All from the Flynn - Rita litter.

Message page if interested.

Update: Girl sold

19/08/2025

Goliath went for his first wallaby hunt on the weekend and he is a natural born hunter. He got in and under the blackberries, gorse and hawthorne and chased the wallaby out to the shooters. He wasnt worried by guns going off (and there were plenty of shots, as they shot 74 wallaby in an hour or so).

Goliath was the fat little chubba bubba singleton puppy, he won half a dozen baby puppy in group awards. But no amount of show ribbons, or DNA testing can prove a dogs worth in the field. Goliath is still under 12 months old, so next winter he will join the hunt team for the full season. It’s just giving him time to fully mature, there’s no rush, look after them young and they will hunt into their teenage years.

Goliath is out of Newesk Sequins and by Hollybrook Silly Billy Joe (Imp NZL). So he has Johnny on his dam’s side who produces working terriers and Hollybrook Bobby Dazzler on his sire side who also produce working terriers. The cross worked, shame he was the only pup in the litter.

Fit, Form, Function…