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chickadoodles said:
Arielle, Have you ever tried an australian shepherd? They are very smart and they are very good with people and kids! I have had a couple and loved them very much! Even in the city where we just wanted a family dog, he was great!
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Yes, I have him higher up on the list of shepherding dogs!!! I remenber our old english sheepdog racing around us and nipping at our heels to manouver us!!!! Several of the herding dogs are in the running!!

Have you heard of the Canaan dog? He is a new one to me-- on a 10 Q survey, he popped to the top of the list.

Saw a coyote yesterday!! I know they are out there.
 
Arielle said:
Yes, I have him higher up on the list of shepherding dogs!!! I remenber our old english sheepdog racing around us and nipping at our heels to manouver us!!!! Several of the herding dogs are in the running!!

Have you heard of the Canaan dog? He is a new one to me-- on a 10 Q survey, he popped to the top of the list.

Saw a coyote yesterday!! I know they are out there.
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I have not heard of the Canaan dog. But I will look it up on google. But the thing I was thinking of was a good dog will be protective of you and your homestead and everything on it! With out having to be a great big dog. I know you will find one and love it from now on! Good luck in your search!
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Canaans I have seen are very nice dogs. I've never worked with one, but I know they have a good rep.

I'm with you on the Pugs. Never have thought they were cute and they are all over like Chihuahuas. Another on my never to own list. I loved our Pekes though when I was younger, but they had fur to hide the ugly where a Pug doesn't. LOL
 
I was just thinking. Maybe take the family to a specialty show or a field show and walk around and meet the dogs and owners. A lot of times we find just the right family to place a dog. I've given dogs to kids for Juniour Showmanship, or co-owned or worked things out with people who really where great people, but couldn't even touch my PQ prices. I know others do too. If you can find a Rar Breed show somewhere, they are very careful about who gets what dog, but they also promote their breeds and are very knowledgable. They try to keep the breeds as they should be and most don't want them to even go AKC, so they have their own registries. But I meet the nicest people at the Rare Breed shows. They aren't as snotty and will talk to you like a real person. When we were waiting for Isis to be old enough to ship to us, I took my husband and some grandkids to one near our house one weekend. The kids got let in to a pen of pups where they wanted to stay all day. MY husband talked about getting one of the breeds for years that he saw there. They were cool! Expensive and we were maybe going to import with the people we talked to, but never got the chance. He loved the Peruvian Inca Orchids. There's a fun breed to look up. Not what you want, but I've given you another to look at too that isn't anywhere near what you want. LOL
 
chickadoodles said:
Arielle, Have you ever tried an australian shepherd? They are very smart and they are very good with people and kids! I have had a couple and loved them very much! Even in the city where we just wanted a family dog, he was great!
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Oh yes, I also love love these dogs! Very smart. Quick to please. Great watch dogs. Very good with children, at least the ones I've known. In fact, protective of family.
 
Cynthia12 said:
Oh yes, I also love love these dogs! Very smart. Quick to please. Great watch dogs. Very good with children, at least the ones I've known. In fact, protective of family.
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I agree totally! I have one now! She is very sweet and very protective yet when people come to see us if we welcome them, then she is all over herself trying to get attention from them. She also keeps our pit bull in line! lol
 
I have spent a fairly productive day (for me) in between duckling watching sessions. Planted a Rose of Sharon in the yard near the pond. Scrounged up left-over chicken wire to protect garden plantings: 2 lemon cucumber plants, an ollalie berry bush, a climbing rose, some woefully pot-bound iris plants, a wisteria, and some previously planted tomato plants. Need more containers to hold 3 more tomato plants, and a watermelon start. I have a second ollalie and a raspberry to plant, too. Dragged the empty garbage can from the road. My neighbors pick theirs up and transport them home in the back of their pick-ups, but it's a shorter and straight shot for me to get it there and back home. It used to be a real trial for me to do this, but not any more, ever since I started walking to and from Gray's Corner every few days. I no longer need to stop for a rest on the way there. Before the rain stopped, I washed 2 small rugs and a runner, tidied up the plastic-covered coffee table where the house chickens perch at night, and moved the turkey poult and its 5 tutors from their brooder cage to a larger brooder bin. Sparkle the House Silkie has not only kicked her four chicks to the curb, but she's gone broody again as of today. The two cockerels are both starting to crow, but they still want to snuggle with her. Tomorrow I will select three or four eggs from the flock for Sparkle.... I think. I do have to figger out a way to kick all four Sparkle-raised chicks out into the general flock population so they sleep in the main coop. Punkin just came in with her 3 chicks and settled into their dog bed nest. She has been taking them everywhere all over the yard. She uses the secret hole in one gate... (Sparkle only took hers out into the fenced garden, but that's because SHE has never been outside of the garden herself.) It's almost time to let the Easter chicks out of their mini-coop and small run to mingle with the rest of the flock.
 

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