Well, my goodness, you do have your hands full! Especially with a Jack Russell Terrorist! I hope it’s not reall cold outdoorw here you live.
I had five dogs at onetime. Four Shih Tsus and a pekepoo, so they were all small, and I had them rpretty well trained. The used to wait for me in a lpuddle at the foot of the stairs. I used to descend, stop and address them: “I suppose yu wonder why I’vae called thi meeting?” Of course they immediately activated their approval with waving tails.
This was 25 years ago, and none of them are still here, of course. But they left me many happy memories. Good uck with your wonderful rescues. :o)
I’m in S.E. Tennessee near Georgia so our winters are pretty mild. All of my outside dogs love cold weather and I always put clean hay and shavings in their houses. Our summers are more brutal than our winters but they have a huge shade tree in the yard and “swimming pools” made from large heavy rubber stock tanks that they get in when it’s hot. I also take them swimming at the farm pond. :-) They are also very good to sleep together in winter if it gets really cold. My JRT has a fenced yard at the end of the house where he plays with Sara, the Aussie mix that my neighbor left me with. She is an outside dog but he’s indoor/outdoor but always indoors at night and when it’s cold. The good thing is that I have an enclosed shed with windows that the outside dogs can be put in at night if it were to get unusually cold. I always make sure they are cared for, indoors or out.