Hagrid @ 3 months

[Mountain Man Jim]

Carrie,

I'm changing my mind about what breed Hagrid looks like. Check out this link:

http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/anatolianshepherd.htm

What do you think??

Jim

 

[picklespickles]

his face reminds me of my red heeler. the expression.

 

[ozark hen]

Wow, Jim, that breed looks a lot like Hagrid but I know he is not that breed. Sure looks like one though doesn't he? I hope Hagrid keeps the temperament of a great pyr and whatever the mix is ..I hope it keeps him home and he doesn't wander. A few years ago we had a full great pyr who I named Sophie. she was a year old when the neighbor shot her face half off and my dh had to put her down as there was no saving her. All she was doing was running through his field...he had 500 acres! The night before my dh and I watched her run through his field but she was chasing a coyote. That broke my heart and I swore I would never have another pyr but they win your heart over. We live in the middle of 82 acres and I am trying to train her to stay home. I didn't do my research back then and didn't know a pyr would try to protect everyone's property from predators. Some folks don't want a strange dog running their property and I don't blame them. There is no way we could fence our property to keep her in. So training is the key here.

 

[Mountain Man Jim]

Carrie,

OK, now I’m very afraid for you and Hagrid. Is your property the 82 acres? Or is the 82 acres at least safe for Hagrid? Pyrs roam. As they say, a Pyr off of a leash is …. GONE.

Are the chickens in a fenced in area. Can he go in there??

I guess your best bet is to train Hagrid to believe that the chickens are his flock. The drag we talked about is used to limit the roaming of the LGDs. I would try to get him to sleep, eat … everything with the birds. He really will need to bond strongly with the birds. You may want to limit his time and focus on the other dogs and people and maybe yourself. Your training may need to be more like the classic LGD training, except with chicken instead of sheep. When he’s older, to protect the girls he will need to be with them all day and night, so that training may need to start now. Just a thought.

There are some books out there on LGD training. You might want to pick one up.

Good luck,

Jim

 

[ozark hen]

thanks Jim, yes, we live in the middle of the 82 acres. The mean neighbor sold his place and a nice guy lives there now. we have talked about dogs on his place in case it happens. I am hoping it won't....Hagrid spent all his time in the coop from age 3 weeks until 6 weeks in a cage but he outgrew it so I put him in the pen and only allow him out at night or supervised in the daytime. My husband tried putting a slender, long cable on his collar so we could catch him easily if we had to but somehow he manages to remove it. Should he be in a fenced in area within the coop? What about in the run with the chickens? Won't he just kill them playing with them if he were to be kept in the run?? I have seen him chase the guineas but then they turned on him and went after him so he left them alone. He doesn't have a mean bone in his body but he wants to play so that is my fear. I do watch him closely when he is loose as I don't want him to think he can chase them.

 

[Mountain Man Jim]

I agree, chickens are not sheep. It's impossible to leave a puppy alone with the birds. He'll just love them to death. I caught Fluffy once with one of the birds in a corner of the chicken tractor. The bird was fine, but soaked. Fluffy was licking the poor terrified bird.

If you have the means, a run next to or with the chickens could work out. It would need to be a pleasurable experience. Lot's of chew toys and a nice treat for submitting to the training. He should start to associate his time with the chickens as a good enjoyable time of the day. Since a puppies attention span is short, I might try it for only half an hour at a time at first and then slow work up to most of the day by time he's a year. The adolescent months (1 to 1.5 yrs) will be the toughest.

It¡¦s actually hard to say what will work. There¡¦s not a lot of CGD training info out there. We¡¦re work¡¦in this out as we go. I wonder is Adoptedbyachicken has any ideas. I don¡¦t know if the Maremma¡¦s tend to roam or not.

Oh, and I told the joke wrong. Question: What do you call a Pyr of leash Answer: GONE

Jim

 

[Haviris]

He's adorable and I agree he looks like a anatolian shepherd, if the mother was a LGD I would think it's very likely that that is what his father is, I think it's a pretty common cross for LGDs! Cute either way!

 

[ozark hen]

I don't know what this guy is crossed with but I got him from a small run down trailer park where young families were struggling to make ends meet. The family that owned the mother moved away and abandoned her there. Of course, I don't know what other dogs were in the area when she was bred but when Hagrid barks he sounds like a hound. All the puppies in the litter..eight of them...looked like Hagrid. I picked him out when he was two weeks old and chose the largest of the litter.
Thanks for the compliments, I think he is cute too.

 

[lacyloo]

cute puppies..