Place Your Bets… Coydog?

[Pampered chicken girl]

I’m especially interested in opinions like both of yours where you’ve seen similar mixes. I have not and therefore have nothing to compare it to.

I’ve also never had a pup with a personality like this one. Strangely intelligent and aloof. The intelligence could come from the Aussie and the aloofness from the Pyrenees, but its an odd combination. I’ve raised bulldogs my entire life, and retrievers, curs, misc. hunting dogs, and yard mutts on the periphery. This personality is all together different. Could be because the LGD is a different personality from a different behavioral genetic tree from what amounts to hunting and blood-sport dogs I’ve always raised.

Or maybe its half-wild? I would guess it would be timid. Timid it isn’t. But its still something very different than I’m used to. Genius level intelligence compared to even smart dogs like Catahoulas at the same age.

The intelligence could be from the pyr too, Mine is extremely smart. Smart to a point she problem solves on her own and is hard to train. Also the aloofness could be pyr. Also my pyr is very brave and not scared of really anything.

 

[my spoiled chickens]

If you have/could get from the breeder a pic of the mom that would be great or describe the mom's coloration that would be awesome

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

Imma go with coyote just cuz i like chaosVery cute puppy is she named after the character from avatar or did you just like the name toph?

Toph from Avatar: The Last Air Bender. My wife got to name this one, myself naming the male bulldog and my daughter naming the female bulldog. I protested a bit, because I didn’t like who Toph became in Legend of Korra. I might err towards superstition when naming dogs. Sometimes I worry they’ll become who I name them after. Although I don’t seem to fret over it when I give them Sith names. I wanted her to be named Ventress.

 

[SourRoses]

I’ve also never had a pup with a personality like this one. Strangely intelligent and aloof. The intelligence could come from the Aussie and the aloofness from the Pyrenees, but its an odd combination. I’ve raised bulldogs my entire life, and retrievers, curs, misc. hunting dogs, and yard mutts on the periphery. This personality is all together different. Could be because the LGD is a different personality from a different behavioral genetic tree from what amounts to hunting and blood-sport dogs I’ve always raised.

Or maybe its half-wild? I would guess it would be timid. Timid it isn’t. But its still something very different than I’m used to. Genius level intelligence compared to even smart dogs like Catahoulas at the same age.

Dog breeds definitely have big differences in the way they think thanks to thousands of years of human intervention.

My family used to breed Jack Russells. Talk about smart puppies. They practically know what you're thinking before you do. You can medicate (worm) them easy one time. After that, they know what the bottle looks like on the shelf and will skedaddle if you look like you're reaching for it.
They know what your face looks like when you're thinking of putting your shoes on to go somewhere. Before the socks.
Managing them requires a certain level of constantly changing trickery (note that I didn't say training, lol).


This reminds me of the Dean Koontz book, "Watchers".

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

If you have/could get from the breeder a pic of the mom that would be great or describe the mom's coloration that would be awesome

I’ll see what I have. I met the mother, the pup’s littermates, and the presumed Pyrenees father. The mother actually tore me up good when I picked up the pup in front of her. Thankfully I was wearing jeans and she frayed the fabric but didn’t break my skin.

 

[my spoiled chickens]

Toph from Avatar: The Last Air Bender. My wife got to name this one, myself naming the male bulldog and my daughter naming the female bulldog. I protested a bit, because I didn’t like who Toph became in Legend of Korra. I might err towards superstition when naming dogs. Sometimes I worry they’ll become who I name them after. Although I don’t seem to fret over it when I give them Sith names. I wanted her to be named Ventress.

Ventress is a good name. I thought LOK had a lot of potential and they just wasted it it was too romantic and not enough sokka or uncle iroh,and they did toph dirty with who she became.Not to get political though

 

[my spoiled chickens]

I’ll see what I have. I met the mother, the pup’s littermates, and the presumed Pyrenees father. The mother actually tore me up good when I picked up the pup in front of her. Thankfully I was wearing jeans and she frayed the fabric but didn’t break my skin.

Thanks

 

[ShrekDawg]

I’ll see what I have. I met the mother, the pup’s littermates, and the presumed Pyrenees father. The mother actually tore me up good when I picked up the pup in front of her. Thankfully I was wearing jeans and she frayed the fabric but didn’t break my skin.

She tried to bite you? Or just jumping? If biting, you still got her puppy after that? Lol

 

[my spoiled chickens]

Thanks

good thing she didnt break the skin that could have been a trip to the ER

 

[No Coop No Problem]

Also, let me add that its a pretty normal thing for people to allow total free-range of their dogs in North Florida. Confirmed coydogs do happen in the locality from time to time. But the ones I have seen in a litter of domestic-born pups obviously looked like coyotes. Coydogs I’ve seen and hunted in the wild look like mutant German Shepards. I’ve not seen one with floppy ears (that I knew to be a coydog). But doing some googling has shown some that look eerily like my pup.

I'm in the same area and I believe I've accidentally gotten a coydog before. I was trying to find a companion dog for my main dog and brought home this girl here. Her manner of movement, her behavior, her silence, the rare yipping and extreme prey drive (why I ultimately gave her back) led me to believe her father was a coyote

This dog here was a non-stop chicken hunter, but I'm sure yours will make a perfect LGD