Pics of my LGDs

[drdoolittle]

I finally got pictures of my 3 new family members! Sheba/momma, Hondo/white male, Cara/red female.

It's so funny how the puppies turned out! Cara is built and has the coat of her momma (Pyr), but the coloring of her daddy (a red Anatolian).
Hondo has the coloring of momma but the coat and build of his daddy. I LOVE his derpy face!

Sheba is such a sweet, calm, intelligent girl! I just can't believe my luck in getting these awesome dogs!

(Pics aren't great and Sheba is in need of a thorough brush out and bath....which I'll be doing today. I love the pic of her smiling! The puppies obviously like playing in the mud.

 

[drdoolittle]

 

[Baymule]

Those mud smeared puppy pics need to be framed and hung on the wall! LOL they are serious about being dogs. Sheba is a pretty girl.

 

[B&B Happy goats]

They make my heart smile , so happy for you

 

[Mike CHS]

I think someone has a good bit of love for the new family members.

 

[drdoolittle]

I brushed Sheba out and gave her a bath Saturday......SO MUCH HAIR, even though

her former owner almost completely brushed her out less than a week before! I'm so glad I kept Cara and didn't have my friend take her as a house dog (she has her momma's coat!

 

[Beekissed]

You'll not want to bath them very often if they are to live outdoors...I've found, over the years, that an outside dog NEEDS the natural oils and dirt that collects in that to protect them from biting insects, repel the rain and snow, etc.

Every time I've taken a notion to make that dog white again, I noticed they didn't fare as well against the gnats, biting flies and even ticks after a bath...and they seemed to get more soaked and muddy after a rain, so dogs no longer get a bath unless it's a treatment of some kind.

 

[Baymule]

I brushed Paris and cut some wads off her. There was enough to build another dog. I never bathe mine. If it made you feel better to bathe your Sheba, then she has a fresh start. I have found that my dogs will be mudballs, covered in dirt and filthy. The sun dries them out, the dirt falls off and they are glistening white again. Trip is laid on his back on the floor right now, belly up, sound asleep, and there will be a dirt pile when he gets up to go outside and work. I will sweep it up.

 

[Beekissed]

This is the time of year, isn't it? Brushing out the old and dirty coat each day, flocking all the spare bits sticking out, and underneath is a clean new coat. Enough Ben hair to make a pillow up there by where he eats, as I brush him as he's eating.

 

[Baymule]

I sprawl out in the dirt to brush mine. They lay down and I brush all I can, roll them over, brush more, they stand up, I brush the ruff of fur on their butt, they immediately sit down, thwarting my efforts.