Originally bred to be hunting dogs, they have a strong prey drive, and dogs that like to hunt often won't let anything stop them. "Originally bred for fox hunting, the Jack Russell terrier has ...

Exercise needs: Around an hour daily Origin/native country: England These dogs were bred for fox-hunting in the early 19th Century, originally by a vicar called Jack Russell – hence their name.

The story of the Jack Russell The terrier’s irrepressible self-confidence was noted long before the arrival of the strain familiar today. In AD207, the Greek poet Oppian wrote about small, underground ...

By the mid 1850s the Jack Russell had been recognised as a unique variety of fox terrier, and the “Sporting Parson’s” name went down in history for a reason he hadn’t anticipated.