Big Brag section for your LGD's and working dogs purebred or not :o)

[big brown horse]

Hey, that is a great idea with the t-shirt! I hate those e-collars, do you know what a St. Bernard sized e-collar looks like? Just like those circa 1980 sized sattelite dishes!

Blakley is a great name by the way.

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

K - your house dogs can patrol the stuffed animals with Free's!

the great thing about workin dogs is they like to work. we are totally the 3 Amigos all summer long (Shady just likes to lounge around in her dotage). when it gets hot we play fetch in the pond - they love it.

and since we are bragging.... my fav 'job' is when i hook tools on Ti's collar and tell him to 'go find daddy' -- so i dont have to walk up the hill one more time to give him a hammer, fence tool, etc.

 

[big brown horse]

Hey that is a great idea! "Go find daddy."

Back in college I had a friend that I would go camping with. She had a dog that wore a backpack. We would fill it with beer and while we hiked up the mountian, the dog swam in the creek next to the trail. Kept our beer nice and cold.

Perhaps I should change the title to "working dog".

eta: typos!!!

 

[Patchesnposies]

What amazes me about LGD's is how naturally it comes to them. We have two Anatolian Shepherd Dogs, Zosia (female 1 year old) and Wrangler (male 6 mos old). They were both rescue dogs, whose owners were not educated about LGD's and thought they were just horrible dogs who would not mind at all. They had no concept that you had to deal with these dogs differently.

Zosia is the alpha dog and takes inventory many times a day of both her people and her animals. She is young but this protector stuff is so instinctive to her. She is very gentle and loving to all of the babies in her care. Wrangler is a BIG duffus right now. If his feet are any indication of what his size will be when full grown, he will be huge. Zosia is teaching him what she will and will not accept when it comes to the treatment of her animals.

The funny thing is, all of our dogs (we have 8) are used to being kenneled at night and put themselves to bed about the time the kids go (we have 6 of those!). They have been crated since we got them that is how we housebroke them.

Zosia and Wrangler were housebroken that way, too. Recently, as they have matured, they have resisted being kenneled. They will go into their crates if we insist but are very unhappy about it.

I know they are thinking "How in the world can we protect you......if we are in that BOX?" So, they sleep on a big doggy bed in our room. I pity anyone who tries to come into our house in the middle of the night.

This is Zosia, with Arriba the Redbone Coonhound.

A more pensive pose:

And this is Dangly Wrangly (who isn't really dangly, cause he's neutered, LOL):

This look is most definitely a "It wasn't me...Ma....HONEST!" look.

 

[big brown horse]

They are so cute!!

I can relate to the "how can I protect you in this box". My dog Kate hates to even come in the house. You practically have to drag her in kicking and screaming. Even then she sits by the back door's sliding glass window and watches.

 

[currycomb]

no pics, but got adopted by a neighbors husky mix. i have moved twice, and he stays wherever i move to, constantly patrolling. he is getting old, and we will miss george when he is gone. then there is cutter, a 3 legged blue heeler. both these dogs roam free, sleep in feed room in the hay. walked in there the last sunny day we had, asleep on the floor in the sun is george the husky, cutter the heeler, 2 chickens (don't like the other birds, get picked on) and 3 kittens about half grown. talk about getting along.there wasn't an inch between them! until we caught them, there were a dozen hens using the feed room as their sanctuary, no monsters going to get them in there. feed the cats in here too, now have 6 that come and go at will (mostly just hang out in warm spots). people have a hard time beleiving my dogs don't kill the chickens. cutter would pick his favorite hen up and carry her around, then gently place her on the ground when done with her, never ever hurt her. amazing animals

 

[Roll farms]

I've mentioned Razor on this forum in the past...he was our first, and best, LGD. Brought him home as a sickly 4 mo. old, saved his life, and he paid us back by running off anything and everything that didn't belong.
He'd jump in the sky after hawks, chew on chain link to get to neighbor's dogs, and patrolled faithfully, rain or shine.

Every day he came into the barn, ate his dinner, and came over and burped in my face while I milked, before going back out on the job.

What I haven't mentioned was that he died a month ago. I was too heartsick to 'say' it out loud.

RIP Razor....you were a great dog and we were lucky to know you.
Thanks for taking care of us and our animals, buddy.

This is Edge, another pyr, w/ her litter of pups in August. She's a great dog as well, and was a great mom. The litter was sired by an Anatolian Sheperd, purposely so we'd have shorter-haired pups.

And this is Edge w/ Gus, her son that we kept from that litter. He was 5 mos. old in this pic.

He got fixed today at 6 mos of age, and weighed 81#.

Hoping he grows up to fill Razor's shoes....

 

[Grillo]

Here's my LGD in training. Pictured at 8/9 months old while I was brushing her out. A real natural, learned to leave birds alone very quickly. With her deep, powerful, booming bark she is a fearsome deterrent for 4 and 2 legged predators.

And another ...

 

[Mugen]

I want to show my Komondors and Caucasian Mountain Dog too, but how do I attach files here? Thanks folks!

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

mugen - click on the "uploads" in the navigation bar at the top of the page in the blue bar. then browse from your computer, submit, then cut-n-paste the url from either the image or the thumbnail into the body of your post. you'll see that the "Uploads" will open a new tab in your browser you so can type your post while its uploading.

Roll Farms - so sorry for your loss. its a hard thing to loose a good old friend.

so Gus is the anatolian x pry? so is that the best of both worlds? less shaggy? how is his personality? i like the 'aloof' anatolian vs the bouncy "pet me" that i've seen in prys.. would love to know more