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  1. Dr.Dale

    Got my Great Pyrenees today!

    Good idea! What is GHO? I need to recheck my perimeter fencing. I suspect that I may have a short somewhere. We have had two hurricanes after all!
  2. Dr.Dale

    Got my Great Pyrenees today!

    Yes, I don’t think that they have gotten to that point yet. They don’t have an older dog to show them how, so they are learning on their own as they mature. I think this experience was a good learning experience for them. They were clearly agitated that a predator had gotten on the land.
  3. Dr.Dale

    Got my Great Pyrenees today!

    Just had an unknown predator attack a couple of minutes ago. The predator managed to get a mouthful of tail feathers from our silver penciled Plymouth Rock, but nothing more before the dogs chased it off!
  4. Dr.Dale

    Got my Great Pyrenees today!

    Good luck! I am really enjoying these dogs, so I hope you do too. We have young kids and lots of friends with young kids, and they are great with everyone and all the animals. We are still waiting for the infamous adolescent rebellion. But at this point these are the best dogs I have ever...
  5. Dr.Dale

    Got my Great Pyrenees today!

    I do hope you are right, but ... Yes, I am very aware, in two days they are 8 months old
  6. Dr.Dale

    Got my Great Pyrenees today!

    Oh, my sympathies to them. I wish that I could claim some wise foresight in the matter, but my experience is similar to your brother’s, minus the dachshund. We had a free range flock of 16 chickens last year. All of the sudden last fall a large fox and/or a stray dog discovered our chickens...
  7. Dr.Dale

    Got my Great Pyrenees today!

    Our coons were pretty vigilant too. They knew almost as soon as the dogs were out of commission and took their opportunity
  8. Dr.Dale

    Got my Great Pyrenees today!

    They are definitely all outdoor animals! The dogs were miserable when we had to keep them indoors for a week after they were spayed
  9. Dr.Dale

    Got my Great Pyrenees today!

    What is POW submission?
  10. Dr.Dale

    Got my Great Pyrenees today!

    Yes, we have raccoons in the area. But the dogs are vigilant and keep them off the property quite well.
  11. Dr.Dale

    Got my Great Pyrenees today!

    I don’t know yet. None of our nearby neighbors have set any off yet, nor have we. Oh, that is awesome! Good luck
  12. Dr.Dale

    Got my Great Pyrenees today!

    Well, the dogs and the chickens seem pretty well integrated with each other now. Our doorstep will probably never be clean again
  13. Dr.Dale

    Got my Great Pyrenees today!

    I can definitely see that urge. I was not a big dog person before, but these are just great animals!
  14. Dr.Dale

    Got my Great Pyrenees today!

    Thanks @bruceha2000 I am glad to know that the dogs are not just a sop to my paranoia. It is not a terrible loss in the end, more of an annoyance. I was planning on butchering one silver penciled rooster and two buff roosters this weekend anyway. But I wanted to do the selecting and eating...
  15. Dr.Dale

    Got my Great Pyrenees today!

    We have 1/2” hardware cloth around the run and on all openings in the coop. But the fence where the rooster was killed was at the 2”x4” welded wire fence that we have going around the yard. It isn’t feasible to fence the whole yard with hardware cloth. We will just have to keep the chickens in...
  16. Dr.Dale

    Got my Great Pyrenees today!

    We lost our first chicken since getting the dogs. We got them spayed on Tuesday and then they told us that they had to be indoors and rest and recover for 10 days. We were completely surprised. Wednesday was ok but Thursday we lost a silver penciled rooster. He was inside our pen, but it looks...
  17. Dr.Dale

    Got my Great Pyrenees today!

    100% agree. Here is a photo of exactly that from this afternoon. They had alerted on something, and were in full guardian mode. I have no idea what it was, but that is the direction where most of the predators come from. I never chastise them when they act like this. Only praise. That is them...
  18. Dr.Dale

    Got my Great Pyrenees today!

    Yes, although I am not confident on the effectiveness of my training skills. More like I am confident in these specific animals
  19. Dr.Dale

    Got my Great Pyrenees today!

    Yes, reports vary but on the exact age, but I do expect an adolescent phase with misbehavior, but at this point they have shown that they have the right underlying personality. So I am confident that such misbehavior will be a temporary setback that we can work through.
  20. Dr.Dale

    Got my Great Pyrenees today!

    What are CO dogs?
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