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Originally Posted by pygmybabies
Ok so i am going back and forth on the great pyr...I have 2 dogs now that are in the yard and not the field, Would the gp accept them if we get and 8 week old, if he is kept in barm/pasture, but can see them and hear them. Does your lgd friendly enough that when you feed them and handle the goats they respect you as the owner? I have no problem training i just wonder how to do it. I have been taking the two i have out with the goats and chickens a little at a time, and they are doing pretty good, the one i was worried about (shw has killed chickens in the past) had to be put to sleep 2 weeks ao, she was bad but she was my dog and I never gave up on her, that is a whole nother story! Anyways I just want a dog to watch animals be friendly to me my cats/kittens, chickens and the 2 dogs I have, I also dont want them to attack someone that might come to pond to fish if we let them, so I guess I should find a book or something that I can learn from fires. I found one for sale that is a male 8 weeks old. I am not gonna make a desicion until I am confident.
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Mine respects me when I have to take care of the goats. She sometimes comes over to investigate what is going on, but she has never shown any signs of aggression towards me. She is also nice to my friend that has been in with the goats, and my family. She loves human attention, but I know that she is ultimately attached to the goats. She will want scratches and such, but is always "on top of things." As for your other animals, well, today my Pomeranian (who has no concept of the fact that our Pyr is large enough to eat her in two bites) crawled into the goat pen, because I was in there. I had no idea what was going to happen; Mellow (Pyr) had been following her along the fence line, as always, staying between her and the goats. Mellow was right there checking her out, and stayed right with her when she ran to me, but she didn't attack her. She is smart enough to not senselessly attack every living thing that isn't a goat or me.
I imagine she was evaluating the situation thinking, "Hmm...this fuzzy thing is small, and I've seen her down here with the two-leggeds before, so I guess I'll just keep an eye on it and see what it does." :baby04: I have heard from other people with Pyrs that they will escort stray dogs away, rather than attacking them.
As for training, everything came naturally to Mellow, or had been picked up watching her mother before we bought her. I only had to train her to understand "No!" for when she tries to get out of the pen without permission, and when she occasionally jumps up for hugs (I'm too lenient on her with that...
). I also trained her to come when she's called. The puppies really learn a lot from watching adult dogs, though, so it would probably be a good idea to buy one a little bit older than 8 weeks if you don't have an adult to "train" him with. I bought Mellow when she three months old. Lakota, my new male puppy, was eight weeks old when I got him, but he's learning from Mellow.
