Pamela Evans

Awe! Love the rainbow in the background. The promise God gives us that he will never flood the earth again. They always mesmerize me. That pretty boy needs a hug and some sugar on the whiskers.

Nothing like a pyr!

Oh my I will definitely show this to my husband. It took me a few seconds to see the pyr in the middle. Its really all of the above as he wants humans, sheep, cows and dogs. Also think one acre really is not enough. The people that used to own him were not living at the farm and supposedly they were feeding him once a day. He was too skinny for my liking and I think they may have only been feeding him once a day at times. May also play into the separation anxiety.

The puppies are in there with him. Will end up putting him on some type of schedule to come in the house and see us. I still can't believe he still wants to see the cats when they scratch him most of the time. He is such a sweet baby I wish I could take him everywhere with me.

Spoke too soon. lol We got up this morning and he was in the fence hanging out with the puppies. He ended up getting out of fence and came up to the door. Unfortunately, I was working and did not see how he got out. He was in the fence one minute and then the next he was at our front door.  He stayed in for a bit, got some food and whined to go back outside. Once I got off work, he loved on me and then wanted to go back outside. I leashed him and walked him to the fence. He went in the fence with no problems and let me put him on his tie out. I think he misses coming into the house and also would like to visit the neighbors dogs so that he has a pack to hang with. As far as the neighbors dogs, they are in a fenced area and are not chained nor have a run inside the fence. They are in with sheep.

So far he has stayed in the fence now that we have put up a new gate. Last time he got out which was over the weekend, he decided to push the gate open while we were in the fence and I was watching his actions. He had looked over at the cow pasture and made a quick get away out of the fence over to the cow pasture next door.

We have watched him the last few nights before sunset and we watch him some during the day while we work as our windows overlook the pasture. He starts getting wild eyed and wants out when the dogs down in the valley start barking at night/early morning. I think he wants to be down with the herd of dogs so that he can patrol with them as he can see part of their pasture which has the sheep in it. Anyways, when he started acting like he was measuring up the fence we kept telling him no and he snaps out of it. We got two puppies and are hoping they will all three grow into a nice pack. We will be adding more fencing as time goes on and may end up getting some more livestock as it probably is companionship and boredom mixed together.

Thanks so much for all the feedback!

Thanks everyone for the feedback! I have shared it with my husband also went back to the way of the pack book that I had recently bought. It has helped fill in some of the gaps that I had on how to train pups and poultry.

Does anyone have any experience with training a dog/puppy to chickens? I am not sure how long it could take. I had read that sometimes you should separate till at least 2 or 3 yrs and do training in between when you can supervise.

Thanks everyone for the feedback. Glad that you all are not keen on me getting goats. We might could borrow some sheep from our neighbor and see how it goes. The main reason I am skittish about getting another dog that is not lgd or is a puppy is because I am concerned about the chickens since we do free range them. Time to pray about it to see what the best fit is.

I have a three year old Great Pyrenees. Need some guidance how to keep him happy. We wfh and are able to go out and hang out with him, but when we are away he appears to be lonely. This is backed up by what happened this morning. He got out of our five foot fence that had been put up over a month ago. He was right next to the fence when I came outside this morning to feed him. He whined because he could not get back in. He could of seen a predator and went over the fence. What disturbed me the most is that once we opened the gate to let him back on our property we started to get him back into his fenced area and that is when he decided it was time to go across the street to the neighbors. When I used to walk him before we put the fence up, he always pulled me across the street. This time he got to the neighbors fence and went up to each dog that was in separate pins and whined at both of them like let me in. There are sheep in there with them that they protect.

Us and the neighbor are thinking that part of his issue is that we only have chickens. When the chickens get near him, he sometimes scares them just to see them fly. We are too scared to get another adult pyr as it seems most people that get rid of them are doing it because they will not stay put. I dont know if it would be wise to get two puppies and train them to stay in the fence for future proofing the hobby farm and also for some protection for us as we live on a mountain. Of course, we would have to train them around chickens. Our neighbor thinks we should get goats as he did have goats before he was with us. He is not fixed so that may also be part of his issue although our neighbor female dog is not in heat. I am scared of getting goats because they say it is hard to keep them in a fence just like a pyr. We were warned to get a dog up here because of how we had a bear living here before we moved in as the residence sat vacant for a few months so that's why we still want to at least have a dog plus when we had a period between dogs we had a fox eating our chickens. Thanks so much in advance!