Jack Russell Terrier Rescue Oregon Washington & Idaho

Jacks have been unfortunately popularized in many films and television shows, and people do not realize that these small cute funny dogs need to run for miles and miles, that they are governed by deeply engrained prey drive and are designed by nature to hunt...and kill. Many Jacks are dumped when they become adolescents, when people start a family and don't have time to stand for 2 hours in the driving rain every day with their exercise-needy Jack, or when their Jack shows his true colours and chomps a neighbour's cat.

Jack Russell Rescue Oregon Washington & Idaho takes these abandoned Jacks and re-homes them in terrier smart lifetime homes. We act as a matchmaker for the Jack Russell terriers of the Northwest. All of our volunteers are exactly that - unpaid volunteers. They foster dogs in their own homes, work with retraining difficult dogs to make them more adoptable, and they drive long distances to pull dogs from shelters or meet with potential adopters.

So…why a Jack ?

Because a good Jack is a joy for many many years. A good Jack is smart and funny and fiercely loyal. He will walk through fire for you, or cross raging torrents balanced on a slippery log or scale sheer rock faces - just for you. He will grab the spaghetti sauce pan by the handle and carry it carefully, without spilling a drop, to a lair under a chair where he can safely consume it. And then at the end of a hard day, he will burrow in under the blankets, tuck himself up tight against your side and make you laugh. There is no better dog than a good Jack. (Especially when he is good and tired.)