Post by josiegirl on Jan 12, 2022 12:31:54 GMT -5
Ok so I never thought in a million years we'd get another dog. We have 4 inside/outside dogs and while they are good dogs, 4 is still too many if you ask me buuut....
We had a litter of kunekune piglets and I posted em up and lady contacted me about trading a almost weaned great pyrenees puppy for a piglet. Now I had thought about not even showing that email to my husband and politely declining. But I would've felt bad about that and of course he was soooo excited when he saw that email. So I spoke with her so I could tell her that it would be an uneven trade for one piglet and we wouldn't want to pay anything for a puppy since I wasn't exactly looking for one. I told her she could certainly take two piglets tho. She said that she was fine with aneven trade, one piglet for a puppy. I will also give her a male toulouse goose she said she couldn't find one.
Under normal circumstances I would still say nooooooo but we actually really hit it off and chatted for like an hour. She's pretty close, homesteads and has dairy goats, kids my daughter's age and everything. And her dogs are working dogs and pups live outside already. When things line up so perfectly like that I usually try to go along and see where it leads. So we will hopefully to and see them today.
But I've never had a livestock guardian dog! How the heck do I train them? I'm so worried well ruin a puppy by not training her right and becoming a chicken killer or wanderer or something. We will, as God as my witness,put high tensile fencing in this spring soon as the ground thaws. Is that enough to keep a great pyrenees in? At the moment we have the barn corral which is plenty of room for a dog but not sure if we should keep the puppy with Josie and the young boars( they are EXTREMELY friendly so they wouldn't hurt her). Do we introduce gradually?
We had a litter of kunekune piglets and I posted em up and lady contacted me about trading a almost weaned great pyrenees puppy for a piglet. Now I had thought about not even showing that email to my husband and politely declining. But I would've felt bad about that and of course he was soooo excited when he saw that email. So I spoke with her so I could tell her that it would be an uneven trade for one piglet and we wouldn't want to pay anything for a puppy since I wasn't exactly looking for one. I told her she could certainly take two piglets tho. She said that she was fine with aneven trade, one piglet for a puppy. I will also give her a male toulouse goose she said she couldn't find one.
Under normal circumstances I would still say nooooooo but we actually really hit it off and chatted for like an hour. She's pretty close, homesteads and has dairy goats, kids my daughter's age and everything. And her dogs are working dogs and pups live outside already. When things line up so perfectly like that I usually try to go along and see where it leads. So we will hopefully to and see them today.
But I've never had a livestock guardian dog! How the heck do I train them? I'm so worried well ruin a puppy by not training her right and becoming a chicken killer or wanderer or something. We will, as God as my witness,put high tensile fencing in this spring soon as the ground thaws. Is that enough to keep a great pyrenees in? At the moment we have the barn corral which is plenty of room for a dog but not sure if we should keep the puppy with Josie and the young boars( they are EXTREMELY friendly so they wouldn't hurt her). Do we introduce gradually?