Here's Ernie

[Pburgh]

I forgot to introduce you all to my pet Ernie. To the left you will see his picture. Ernie is a 6 year old, long-haired rat terrier. He's my buddy. He has the personality of a Jack Russell. At six weeks old he had a broken leg which needed casted for 6 weeks. That will give you some idea of how this dog bounces around.

[Lindaloo]

And what a cutie pie Ernie is.

[alicia-w]

how cute!!!!

[JonathanBelles]

is it the normal behavior of a long-haired rat terrier to be very jumpy?

[Stephanie]

What a sweet heart! He knows how to pose for the camera!

[Lindaloo]

is it the normal behavior of a long-haired rat terrier to be very jumpy?

Jack Russell is a rat terrier.

[breeze]

Oh, Karan, Ernie is such a cutie! I already want to pet him and tell him what
a darling he is! Do that for me, please!

~Annette~

[DaylilyDawn]

I bet Ernie is a ladies man with all the girl dogs around.

[cajungal]

He is sooo cute!!! My advatar is of my yorkie Chloe. She just celebrated her 1st birthday only 3 days after Christmas. Don't let the cute face fool you though, she is bad to the bone!

[Pburgh]

Yep, Ernie would definitely be licking all your faces. The only time that he is really hyper is when people first come in the house. After that he sits, lays, rolls over and dances for treats. At night he crawls under the covers of my bed and goes sound asleep. Cajungal, Chloe looks like the classy girl terrier (Lady) while Ernie looks like the scruffy bad boy (Tramp).

[CajunMama]

Oh he looks like he has an attitude! It's like he's just waiting until you turn your back and he's into something!

My cairn terrier, charlie, is bad. He has a severe case of separation anxiety. We've got to lock him up in the kitchen when we leave. My dear (heavy on the sarcasm there!) husband left him out for an hour monday night and he chewed up the slipcover on the sofa, the toilet brush holder, and something else. And he knows he does bad because you just look at him after and his ears go down and he gets this really sad look on his face.

[Pburgh]

Mama, charlie sounds adorable!!! How old is he?? I had an old english sheepdog that pulled a thread of continuous filament carpeting in my hall and was sitting in a big pile of wool when I got home. No carpeting remained, just the padding, a puppy and a pile of wool!!!!!

Ernie is at home and has the run of the house from 7:00a.m. to 6:00p.m. He has absolutely NO accidents and doesn't get into anything. He's an angel!! Now when he was a puppy it was a different story. One day I went to Weirton to see my Mom at 12 noon on Saturday. I got caught in a snow storm and had to stay at my Mom's all night. When I got home at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday. He had not had an accident. He was climbing the walls to get out but nothing on the floor. Bless his little heart!!

[southerngale]

Awww, he's so cute! My dog, Rita, is nearly 16 months old and hasn't chewed up anything for several months now. I'm still in the habit of making sure everything is picked up off the floor at night though, particularly shoes, but I think it would be ok now. She just sleeps all night. She wakes me up every morning about 6 - 7 am by sitting next to my bed and "talking" to me. It sounds sort of like whining, sort of like speaking. lol If I don't get up and let her out, she'll start to lick my hand or face until I let her out. She stays inside most of the time, but spends a lot of time outdoors too. She usually comes in for the night pretty early in the evening, and she never has accidents. Of course it wasn't always that way. Training her when she was a few months old was no easy task. I think the maddest I got was when she jumped on the couch and got a Cozumel straw hat down from on top of a video cabinet and chewed it to shreds. This was shortly after my cruise last April/May and it's not like I can run down to the store and grab another one. She was only 7 months old. Oh well...it was just a hat.
She is sweet as pie and I love her dearly. Don't leave her outside when it's cold and/or wet either, but if you do, she'll knock on the door!

[cajungal]

We thought once Chloe turned a year old and was no longer a puppy, she would start to calm down. She still acts like a puppy! We have been having her since she was 6 weeks old. She only weighs 3 and half pounds but she is a holy terror! She is still not at all housebroken and we tried everything! She knows where her pad is and what to do, but will only do it if she feels like it. Chloe's favorite thing is paper. You got to make sure all the doors are closed because her favorite thing to do is dig in garbage. She goes wild tearing up paper. She even got into my mom's purse yesterday that was unzipped and tore up her grocery list plus her receipt from Wal-mart.

Chloe is our second yorkie. Our first yorkie was Lacey and we had her for 13 and half years before she died of kidney failure in June 2005. Lacey was housebroken in under a month and she was an angel compared to Chloe. But, I still love Chloe to death and don't know what I would do without her!

[Stephanie]

They're all puppies in my opinion. I don't think that they ever fully grow up.

[Miss Mary]

Karan - Ernie is so cute! Thanks so much for introducing him to us. I had noticed his picture under your screen name and kept forgetting to ask - who's this? So thanks!

I'm such a dog lover now! And it all started when we got our Golden. She's almost 7 now. Still a puppy at heart but she's getting so much gray, her face is nearly all white now. But I love her like crazy.

I'm guessing Ernie follows you everywhere and is wonderful company?

Mary

[TexasStooge]

Aww! Such a cute dog!

[azsnowman]

I forgot to introduce you all to my pet Ernie. To the left you will see his picture. Ernie is a 6 year old, long-haired rat terrier. He's my buddy. He has the personality of a Jack Russell. At six weeks old he had a broken leg which needed casted for 6 weeks. That will give you some idea of how this dog bounces around.

So....I FINALLY get to meet him via a picture

Every time we talk to each other on the phone that's ALL I hear in the background, ERNIE barking his little heart out

[Pburgh]

Dennis, this pup really guards his home. If he sees someone walking IN FRONT of the house he barks just to let them know he's home!!! It's like he's saying "come on in so I can lick you to death!!"

Mary, I've had dogs all my life. When I lived in an apartment that didn't allow dogs, Craig bought me the siamese cats which I immediately fell in love with. They're a lot like dogs.

Southerngale, I love that name Rita for a dog!!! I have a straw hat from Cancun if you want me to send it down to replace your Cozumel hat. I think it has a few margarita stains on it!!