A Jack Russell Terrorist

I’ve been foster caring for a Jack Russell terrorist for the past month.
As with all Jack Russell dogs, they have big charming and alarming personalities.

Mocha :

From Alida Blair Landscape Design

She is quite a curious little cutie who has some interesting tastes.

For instance she does not like Country Home or Traditional Home magazines and tore them up on my Le Corbusier chaise lounge one day when left home by herself. She obviously has modern tastes because she didn’t tear up Met Home or Dwell.

She has a fascination with two antique Chinese paint brushes that sit on a side table in my living room.
Sitting along with the antique paint brushes is a stainless steel lamp with a metal ball pull chain.
The metal ball makes a ding ding ding noise when it swings back and hits the metal body of the lamp.
This has proved to be an “AH HA” epiphany moment for both me and the dog.

The side table with metal lamp and the alluring paint brushes:

From Alida Blair Landscape Design

Whenever the dog tries to pick up one of the paint brushes the lamp makes a ding ding ding noise and I am able to stop the dog from picking up the brushes, as well as shoo her off the furniture.

This epiphany has given me the idea of putting little bells on other tasteful tempting items that little Mocha wants to chew, such as my slippers and an area in the garden that she likes to dig in.

So I’m off to the craft store to purchase some bells in hopes of training the dog and myself during her stay at my bed and biscuit inn.