Kimber tangled with Cougar!! Underdogged.

[Ridgetop]

The sound of my LGDs warning off predators (animal or human) is just a lullaby to me.

 

[goats&moregoats]

Just got done reading this thread and still no news. Wondering????

 

[Latestarter]

Yeah... she hasn't been back in a long time. Hope all is well with her.

 

[Baymule]

I have ear plugs so I can sleep. DH snores, roosters crow through out the night, George barks (LGD), neighbors cows bellow, etc.....

I just trained my brain to identify sounds and keep sleeping. If it is important, wake me up. LOL

 

[Skiesblue]

^ Do that with middlin success I’m naturally a night owl and have spent the last decade on the graveyard shift w variables. I hope to get better with the ignore. LGDs dispatched a raccoon overnight everyone good with vaccinations and no visible wounds-didn’t hear a thing.

 

[Ridgetop]

Rika, Anatolian bitch has taken to sleeping inside the round pen corral where we are currently keeping sheep at night. She can squeeze under the bottom bar but Bubba is too big. He has to content himself with sleeping on the outside of the pen. Pen is on top of ridgeline so they have good view over gully. I am not sure when she goes in there since she is working at night around the perimeter, but around 5am she is resting in pen with sheep.

 

[Baymule]

We have one stretch of fence that runs from the back yard up to the road. If it is open all the way, Paris, our female GP will lay up by the road (inside our fence). When we drive in, she trots back to the back yard. I guess she figures we're home, she's off duty. LOL

 

[Ridgetop]

It is really wild that they know when they are on or off duty. Rika knows that after we bring the sheep into the barn or the pen and feed them that they are safe, so she will come in the house for a couple hours if we invite her in. If she is not happy about something in the field she will not even come to the back door. She knows when the predators are around. We have had times when she would not come to the porch to be fed because she was on guard even though the sheep were locked in the barn! DH has to take her dinner out to the pasture. Bubba never misses a meal, but he is just turned 2 years old so I expect when he is older he may act the same. He is more vocal. Rika has a serious side to her nature, so maybe it is just the difference in the dogs' personalities.

I always depended on my dogs to alert me to danger - these LGDs are just amazing though. I never worry about prowlers, and where I used not to like strange cars driving up our private dead end road, now I hear our 2 barking and know that even if these guys are checking out houses to rob, they will give us a miss. Getting more excited about adding our puppy in September!