Does your Homestead Dog make the list?

I have a female Husky Wolf mix and her pup after mating with the neighbors Pit Bull.

2 Border Collies here...male & female. Both are spayed/neutered.
Super smart, I love teaching them new things. Both have funny quirks...Bailey(male) chases thunder and Maggie chases smoke. If i burn inscense I have to put it where she can't reach it and if you smoke she attacks the smoke coming from the cigerette. I tell my husband that she's trying to tell him to quit. When we burn leaves Maggie leaps through the air & smoke with her teeth popping together. (Don't know what that's about...she's always had that obsession)
But they also do tricks and Maggie knows hand signals and has a vocabulary. Our male Bailey is more work oriented and loves to try to put the horses in their place.

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We have 2 Dachshunds...one male-slim and one female-tootsie roll. They are great but dont do anything except sleep, bark and eat...They do play with the cat and bark at the wind and catch flees but we cant seem to live without them.

Belinda

I have a blue tic / redbone hound and chow/lab. Both girls are adopted strays and trained to pull a cart.

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We have 3 Orginal Mountain Cur dogs, they tree game, chase predators away, great guard dog, great with the kids.

We have four dogs. The oldest has an incredible sense of judgement of character. The saying in our family is that if someone comes to the door and Barney growls at him, shoot the guy. We'll find out from the cops later what he was wanted for.

Well, we have had several dogs who "got" us. One was a white german shepard that was litterally tossed over the fence into the yard. We heard the car door slam as they raced off!! We had a wonderful black lab/shepard cross. These two dogs helped raise my kids and we sure missed them when died.
Our current dog is a goofy Border Collie.....the only dog I ever actually went and brought home on purpose (even as a kid we adopted strays only) He is wonderful, playful and smart. Unfortunately due to a rare medical problem he cannot be a working dog but it doesn't prevent him from helping me around the place with chickens and ducks. He also is very protective of his family. One day he stayed glued to my leg and gave a "border collie stare" to a man who came to buy fryer rabbits. I thought what is up with Bandit? Then it dawned on me he didn't trust that man and I didn't either!! I don't recommend Border Collies to the average person as they need a job to do but they can be wonderful dogs to have around.
Denise

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Denise

We have 6 Anatolian Shepherds, ages 5 1/2 months to 11 years. Have had this breed since 1983, & they're the best dogs with poultry, goats & sheep. Not herders, but flock guardians. Here's my 2 youngest (pup & 2 yr old) up in one of the pastures:

If you can only have one dog then a hearding dog might be the best option.
They may not be biggest dog or able to fend off an attach but they can alert owners to intruders and can serve during the day in a hearding role.

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Gary in Central Ohio

Am I the only one with Great Danes?

Great watch dogs, the size of them is enough to intimidate most. Very loyal.

Danes were originally bred to hunt wild boar and have strong herding instincts. My female will herd the goats in if they get out of there fence and she litterly loaded the pigs on the trialer when it was their time to be butchered.

Great dogs!

I'm really enjoying reading this thread! Nice to get a glimpse into the lives of forum members.

When I was little I saw a woman walking a Great Dane (had never seen one before) and looking up at it, I decided it just must be some weird looking horse! (grins)
I asked her if I could ride her pony.
Needless to say, I took a few steps back when she told me it was a dog.
lol

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We have 4 dogs and parts of them are on the list. Three of the four are mixed breed pound puppies, the fourth is a beagle. Lab/retriever cross is the smartest dog we've ever owned, the husky/lab cross isn't far behind, but the Mastiff/lab is big and dumb-intimidating, huge bark, but dumb and loveable. The beagle, well, he's a beagle. All are good on the farm and with the animals...they have never offered to chase chickens, but they will bark at the horses if they're running in the pasture.

Stacy in NY

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We've got two dogs: one genuine American Mutt and my German Shepherd/wolf mix. They make a great team: the Mutt usually finds and gets into trouble ... and my Shepherd/wolf has to bail him out! :haha:

cocker/lab mix and blue heeler/aussie shepard mix and can't forget the C.A.T. (he thinks he is every bit a dog as the other two.)

Next dog will be an English Shepard (old farm collie)

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Cyndi (and sometimes Paul)

Muller's Lane Farm
"Lessons in Homesteading"

Australian Shepherd, got 2 of them, just lost my first one to old age :waa: Could'nt manage our 25 cheviot sheep without them, plus they are a huge help when trying to catch various poultry. DH has a hunting Lab. his drive sometimes overtakes his brain!

Great Pyranese. Like to kill coyotes and sleep with the sheep

I have a wonderful English Setter mix. He was found on the coldest day in January in a snowbank, about 8 weeks old. He started guarding the house as soon as he got there.
As I was driving in Amish country I saw an Amish man with his two dogs. The dogs were chasing a spirited horse around a paddock. One dog was a border collie or such, the other was a dachshund. Very funny to watch. He was keeping up pretty well though.

Homesteading Dogs:

1 200+ lb rottie - purebred - looks like she could eat your whole truck when you pull in the drive but that rush when you open the door is only to clean up the food on the floor :haha: .

1 Rottie lab mix who is the sweetest thing except she thinks now that there are boys around that she needs to lift her leg to mark her territory. She actually fell over a time or two learning this one!

1 breeding pair of ACDs. They were both abused so it took forever to get them to love us but love they do. Ginger thinks she is mine and only mine. She goes where I go. I can sing me and my shadow and she follows every step. Dad - Snapper - is a blue acd, loves dh and ds most but anyone who pays attention is a good thing.

2 6 month old (tomorrow) neutered male ACDs. They will probably be the death of all of us. They escort people up and down our road. They torment our cows occaisonally. They are learning to work the cows and the chickens are worried. THe cats thought they were ok when they were little but now ...! They have made us consider that tranquilizers for dogs may not be a bad thing. They both play great one on one basketball (though they leave marks when they block) They are water dogs which I never expected. Our frog pond may never be the same. They steal eggs if given the opportunity. Drink out of the hose and if you are dumb enough to leave food on your plate untended on the picnic table it is theirs!

They too can hear people cut wind in the next county and are quick to respond. Though they need to stop eating so many cow flops because their 2 am gas attacks are horrendous!

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cocker spaniel is 7yo now...he's a wonderful dog i wouldn't trade for any other.
the mutt i picked up last spring is around 2...we figure she is a collie/australian shephard cross...she's a good one with the kids and a good watch dog...sees and barks at almost everything. they are both gentle with the kids and well mannered.
had 2 great pyrenees before i gave up the house, etc. last summer. friend has them now, and i'll have more when i get back out into the country and get the goats back...wouldn't have livestock w/o my pyres.

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I have a Akita-coyote-Malmute cross I won on a bet. He's a great hunter/ retriever. You can almost show him a picture of something and he'll be up to retrieveing it. But when he's done going after stuff you'd better call it a day or get it yourself!!!
I take him Deer and Elk hunting with me, he can spot them long before I do, he looks and has a "snort" he does when he see's them, so I start looking that way, and sure enough they'll be there. He's never run them, but he does get upset if I miss a shot.
He gets small game and birds. He hates squirrels, he was bitten when he was a puppy. And he goes out of his way to find them, if he's looking up a tree. There's probably a squirrel up it.
He also is our protector, and no one gets by him at his house.
Shadowwalker