organictoon
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- Jan 6, 2016
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Howdy everyone!!
I have a LGD Puppy that is a little over 3 months old and I am totally losing my mind (including my wife) any help is GREATLY appreciated:
1. So far we have been socializing her with the chickens/guinea fowl supervised daily and she hangs out in the coop with them with us for about 20-30 minutes and does not even mess with them at all she literally just walks around with them and respects her boundaries with them.
2. Besides that we are completely torn with how to manage the puppy when it comes to "home". We have been letting her sleep on the back porch at night due to her size and hating the kennel in the barn and barking all night and leading her out under a shaded area with water during the day.
Problem A: Should we not let her sleep on the porch if she is always trying to get to it during the day when off the lead?
Problem B: We have cattle stock panels, although sturdily reinforced, it has large enough openings to where she can still
fit through them (barely now) but we don't want her to constantly do that as we want her to respect the fencing.
Any suggestions as to what we should do here? I am pretty stressed out about this and unsure if it was a great idea just to buy her if she is just gonna wanna sit on my back porch all day. But my theory was that she will mature and at some point kick in her guardian instincts (came from a working mother and dad on site,Verified at the site) and she just will hang out on the porch until she believes the chicken's need guarding? I have seen other folks that have had great success even letting there LGD's inside the house regularly, it just may not be a good idea for "this" dog?
(COOP IS DOWN THERE ON THE RIGHT AND PORCH IS DIRECTLY TO MY LEFT) 3.86 ACRES
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I have a LGD Puppy that is a little over 3 months old and I am totally losing my mind (including my wife) any help is GREATLY appreciated:
1. So far we have been socializing her with the chickens/guinea fowl supervised daily and she hangs out in the coop with them with us for about 20-30 minutes and does not even mess with them at all she literally just walks around with them and respects her boundaries with them.
2. Besides that we are completely torn with how to manage the puppy when it comes to "home". We have been letting her sleep on the back porch at night due to her size and hating the kennel in the barn and barking all night and leading her out under a shaded area with water during the day.
Problem A: Should we not let her sleep on the porch if she is always trying to get to it during the day when off the lead?
Problem B: We have cattle stock panels, although sturdily reinforced, it has large enough openings to where she can still
fit through them (barely now) but we don't want her to constantly do that as we want her to respect the fencing.
Any suggestions as to what we should do here? I am pretty stressed out about this and unsure if it was a great idea just to buy her if she is just gonna wanna sit on my back porch all day. But my theory was that she will mature and at some point kick in her guardian instincts (came from a working mother and dad on site,Verified at the site) and she just will hang out on the porch until she believes the chicken's need guarding? I have seen other folks that have had great success even letting there LGD's inside the house regularly, it just may not be a good idea for "this" dog?
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(COOP IS DOWN THERE ON THE RIGHT AND PORCH IS DIRECTLY TO MY LEFT) 3.86 ACRES