Dog pics

[DieselBound]

He is a steer, he’s Angus-Jersey cross. I had a full blooded jersey Steer once. That dude was a bully to people or anything in his pasture, he would sometimes aim his horns at the chickens trying to rob his corn. He did chase off a Fox trying to tear up my chickens though.

My neighbor, mail lady and a few other people saw a fox chasing my chickens then saw my jersey chasing the fox, I free ranged 24-7 for over a year at that point, I lost a bird about every 30-40 days at the end till I sold the flock. So the jersey kept the chickens from being massacred, I have heard stories of people losing 10-30 birds in one night, I never had that but I did have attack cattle watching over the chickens. We have hawks, raccoons, possum, fox and coyotes in the area and surprisingly non wiped out my chickens.

It’s funny, when I first got chickens I looked into a LGD (Great Pyrenees), had one lined up, was gonna train it to look after the flock and live in the stalls back at the barn, then have the Sheppard up at the house, as a pet and to guard the house which he does well, he even scares off the Jehovah’s Witnesses now which is impressive and not easy. But I didn’t think it would be a good fit for my situation and passed on the dog.

About a year after chickens, I got cattle and never needed a LGD after all. A year or two after cattle I lost interest in chickens and sold my flock, still have the coop and supplies, one day I’ll get into them again.

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That little red calf was this guy when I first got him, it was a few days before the others let him eat with them.

Great story!

I have a couple neighbors with Great Pyreneeses, one doesn't really do anything, while the other is supposed to be an LGD. Owner of the LGD-assigned dog said that it didn't protect their chickens from eagles and hawks. My rescue dog, not an LGD breed, got trained to protect against aerial predators: a truly magnificent dog.

I faced the same dilemma of how to manage a family dog with and an LGD. Never did find any useful insights. Was angling to find out on my own and then our makeshift LGD had to be put down. Now we're back to family-dog-come-LGD: inside at night, daytime outside as much as possible.

Just the scent of a domestic dog scattered about does wonders for keeping predators away. Had ZERO raccoons until we lost our dog: and then we were losing eggs and chickens left and right. That dog (Xena) was as good as any pure bred LGD (individuality [does the dog have it in it?] and training are the determinants).

 

[Sigarms]

My sisters dog, "chillin" on a hot summer day ......


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Did the dog actually learn to float like that? Neat pic.

 

[jaydee325]

This is one of our 4 Whippets coursing.

It is her birthday today, Happy Birthday Emery!

 

[2LaneCruzer]

What a great picture!

 

[DieselBound]

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This is one of our 4 Whippets coursing.

It is her birthday today, Happy Birthday Emery!

Those dogs are wicked fast!

 

[Navvet]

Did the dog actually learn to float like that? Neat pic.

Yes, he loves it !!!

 

[sixdogs]

My sisters dog, "chillin" on a hot summer day ......


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Wow, good looking dog. Springer?

 

[abunchofidiots]

 

[Navvet]

Wow, good looking dog. Springer?

Standard Poodle.... Very smart dogs (and no shedding).

 

[PhysAssist]

Was rifling through some of my pictures and ran across this one of Kisha (about a month and a half ago- age 5 months).
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His[ or her- Sorry, but CRS strikes again] face reminds me of our Sully:


He's a mixed breed rescue about 2 yr old now- with definitely some hunting type breed in there because he gets a scent and won't stop following it, and tries to catch [and I think eat] anything he sees moving.

He also bit about 2" off the tip of the tail of the feral cat that lives on our front porch- SWMBO agrees that it was her fault- he was just under a yr-old, and she was petting the cat as it stood on the top of the double hung windows in our kitchen...

Sully showed "gentle" interest and was sniffing her, so SWMBO held the cat's tail where he could reach to smell it----

...a short lunge later and Thumbs was missing about 2" of fur and meat, and had a skele-tail sticking out of the approx 10" of tail she had left.

It all healed fine, and Sully is never let near Thumbs any more.

...and I have a 2' black furry reminder to torture SWMBO with...