Spike's long-time enemy, Big Brown Bully With Balls, is dead. According to his owner's brother, in a brief conversation on the stairs, he "turned vicious", went for his owner and had to be put down.
so, reading between the lines: bought for an insane sum of money (my other neighbour with the JRTs told me £4000!) from a backyard breeder, never neutered, very likely bred himself, either temperamentally unsound by breeding or the victim of incompetent handling. Poor bastard dog, he never had a chance.
one small piece of good news: out of the six (now five) dogs living in this apartment block, he was the only one who wasn't a speutered rescue.
We never even knew his real name, but (after a fashion) we'll miss you, BBB.
so, reading between the lines: bought for an insane sum of money (my other neighbour with the JRTs told me £4000!) from a backyard breeder, never neutered, very likely bred himself, either temperamentally unsound by breeding or the victim of incompetent handling. Poor bastard dog, he never had a chance.
one small piece of good news: out of the six (now five) dogs living in this apartment block, he was the only one who wasn't a speutered rescue.
We never even knew his real name, but (after a fashion) we'll miss you, BBB.