Fox Fire’s Josie

Fox Fire’s Josie

8”, 10 lb, Chestnut-Brown/White Short Smooth Coat Female

EJRTCA registered

AKC-FSS registered
DNA Profile recorded
 

Josie’s Photo Album

 

Personality:  

Josie loves people, cats and ponies. She adores one of our little Shetlands and runs over to the fence to get kisses from the pony. She is also very persuasive in getting a couple of our cats to groom her and clean her face. She loves deep muscle massages and groans with pleasure when she gets them. She is the alpha dog of our family, mostly because she was first. She always wants to please; however, she is not the “cuddle-hog” that the other two Russells are. Josie rarely barks—we wondered for awhile whether she even had the ability! Josie grew up around only cats for the first couple of years when she was our only dog, and sometimes she thinks that she is a cat herself. She prefers dry cat food to canned dog food!  She is the mouser in the group and sometimes joins in with the barn cats to stalk field mice. Josie has proven to be a wonderful little mother, but is not overly protective in that she trusts us, our other dogs, and our cats to play with her young puppies while she keeps a close eye on things.

 

Conformation:

Josie is small, but muscular. She has incredible muscle definition and especially nice thighs!  She has nicely folded ears and beautiful, expressive, soulful eyes. Though she is quite short-legged, her legs are very good (minimal curvature), and her head and chest are in proportion with her size.

 

Coat:

Josie has a typical coat for a smooth-coated Russell Terrier in terms of hair length, density, and texture. Her color is white with deep, rich reddish-brown markings.  She has less white than the ideal standard describes (eg, she is only slightly more than 50% white), but her brown markings are of such a rich color that most people find her coat very attractive.

Fox Fire’s Lola

Fox Fire’s Lola

8.5-9”, 11 lb, Mahogany-Brown/White, Long Smooth Coat Female

EJRTCA registered

AKC-FSS registered
DNA Profile recorded
 

Lola’s Photo Album

 

Personality:

Lola is like a stuffed teddy-bear or ragdoll. She is very laid-back and loves to cuddle. She prefers to fall asleep on my stomach or tucked in close beside me on her back. She is also the dog most likely to stay right by my side when I am working in the horse barn or gardening. The other dogs might eventually go off to investigate other things after awhile, but Lola never her leaves her “human”. However, she is the ball chaser in the family, and is clever enough to win out against our Italian Greyhound by cutting corners.  She also always wins the toy tug-o-war played between the dogs. She loves games. She also loves to grab at the water spray as it shoots out of the garden hose. Lola has the biggest appetite of all of our dogs. Whereas Josie likes to go out to watch the koi (pond fish) when I am feeding them, Lola likes to go out to try and steal the Koi’s food pellets right out of the pond! Lola ignores the fish; she concentrates on stealing their food as it is tossed into the water.

 

Conformation:

This little girl has great bone! She is sturdy and thick-bodied. Like Josie, she is quite small Her ears are heavy and folded. She has a nice broad chest proportionate to her pelvis, with a straight back.

 

Coat:

Lola is a smooth-coat, but it is a heavy smooth coat—meaning that the hair is slightly longer and thicker than the common smooth coat.  She is all white except for her ears and one side of her face. The split face markings in a deep rich mahogany color are very striking. Her eye rims are darkly pigmented, even on the white side of her face, which is highly preferred. She also has pigment under her lower lip, which can give the impression that she wears lipstick!