Dog pics

[goeduck]

Anyone use collar tags besides me? I noticed quite a few traditional tags in the various pictures in this tread. Nothing wrong with them but they can more easily get caught on things. I have had two on some dogs to get all the rabies, info, etc. But I boiled it down to one with the basics, address, name and my phone number.

Boomerang Tags

 

[DieselBound]

My last dog ran through very dense brush for many years (ugh, she loved to chase things) and never lost a tag. Rabies tag has our phone number on it.

I DID lose a collar that had a tag on it. I had two collars on my puppy (won't bother to give details) and she managed to shed the one with the tag. It was out on several acres and I looked and looked and couldn't find the stupid thing. After many days I was out with the puppy and she shows up with the collar in her mouth! I'd been encouraging her to find it but she didn't (or wouldn't?) until that one day. (no longer use that collar- plastic snap connector)

 

[CPTKILLER]

Bella the Boxer and her adopted Great Pyrenees sons (Jacky and Jolo). The Great Pyrenees will soon be full-time livestock guardians for the goat heard.

 

[Jstpssng]

Anyone use collar tags besides me? I noticed quite a few traditional tags in the various pictures in this tread. Nothing wrong with them but they can more easily get caught on things. I have had two on some dogs to get all the rabies, info, etc. But I boiled it down to one with the basics, address, name and my phone number.

Boomerang Tags

My dog doesn't generally wear a collar for safety reasons; I know of a few dogs who died because their playmate got caught in it. His rabies and license tags hang on my key ring. I started doing this with my last dog because she was constantly leaving them out in the woods.

 

[oosik]

There is a Spaniard and his family about thirty miles south of me. The word is that he is a Basque. Anyhow - he keeps 2000 to 3500 sheep and has at least three of the Great Pyrenees to tend his flocks. His Pyrenees have long white shaggy hair. Maybe you clip yours and he just lets his go wild. Whatever - I've "met" two of his dogs and they are REALLY big - thank God they are friendly also. He also has several donkeys - I guess they are good at protecting the sheep also.

 

[goeduck]

There is a Spaniard and his family about thirty miles south of me. The word is that he is a Basque. Anyhow - he keeps 2000 to 3500 sheep and has at least three of the Great Pyrenees to tend his flocks. His Pyrenees have long white shaggy hair. Maybe you clip yours and he just lets his go wild. Whatever - I've "met" two of his dogs and they are REALLY big - thank God they are friendly also. He also has several donkeys - I guess they are good at protecting the sheep also.

Donkeys are good guard animals as are Llamas. Both are alert, have good vision and dislike dog like animals.

 

[Dftodd]

Anyone use collar tags besides me? I noticed quite a few traditional tags in the various pictures in this tread. Nothing wrong with them but they can more easily get caught on things. I have had two on some dogs to get all the rabies, info, etc. But I boiled it down to one with the basics, address, name and my phone number.

Boomerang Tags

I use a regular tag, but no frills. Wife had gotten one of the designer ones (think bone shaped) with some bling on it for a dachshund pup we had. Was cooking dinner and looked over at the couch and he was standing up at a weird angle with the tag caught on a seam from a couch cushion Ran over and freed him, then removed the tag from his collar. It wouldn't have been good if he was a little shorter or the seam had been higher up.

Looked at the tag closely, and there was a ridge and seam on it that could snag on things. Switched to the no frills tags for the dogs after that.

Rabies tag goes in the filing cabinet at the house. That jangling sets my teeth on edge. I do keep a copy of the vaccination records in both vehicles just in case.

 

[goeduck]

I keep my dog callers on just loose enough to slip off if they get it hung up on a branch or whatever. They usually only come off when the vet wants to take them to the dreaded other room.

I do not like the jangling noise either, so the collar tags are perfect.

 

[aczlan]

One thing we used to do was to rivet the dog tags to their collar. No rattling or lost tags that way.

Aaron Z

 

[Pixguy]

One thing we used to do was to rivet the dog tags to their collar. No rattling or lost tags that way.

Aaron Z

Good idea. :thumbsup:

 

[300UGUY]

Sara our boxer pup, just chillin!

 

[DieselBound]

^^^ Love that pic!

 

[DieselBound]

Donkeys are good guard animals as are Llamas. Both are alert, have good vision and dislike dog like animals.

I had an awesome combination: Guinea fowl and a dog. The dog, if she didn't spot something first (perhaps she was in the house), would key off the Guineas, which can make an insane amount of noise at the slightest sign of anything that's out of place*. That combination was so effective that we didn't have to do anything as the dog would go and deal with whatever (aerial or ground -based). Miss that dog something awful. Puppy is starting to pick up on this, though we've got to get her to leave our fowl alone (play and prey drive is pretty strong).

* Last Sunday the puppy and I were out and about and the Guineas were making a fair amount of noise. I herded the puppy back toward the our fenced area (fowl are all inside it) and while scanning for coyotes, which are fairly commonly seen outside the fenced area, I saw, for the first time in eight years I've been here, elk! They were hard to make out as I couldn't see their side profile and they were in tight quarters, brush and a big tree close by the fence: couple days later I confirmed my suspicions as I found obvious elk tracks (though about 1/8 mile away from that spot).

Here's Xena (previous dog) hanging out around the Guneas (or, rather, the Gunieas hanging out around Xena):

 

[goeduck]

I saw, for the first time in eight years I've been here, elk!

I started having that problem on one of my properties in Clallam County. They have been around for years but only passing through. I have a few young apple trees they ripped the wire deer cage off of and munched to the ground. Fence problems too but the hot wire seems to keep them out of that. Mostly anyway.

 

[bunyip]

Went away in the new caravan last week unsure as to how the dog would take to it, set up at our first site and about 30 seconds later we found him on the bed.......

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^
Definitely stressed out.

 

[two_bit_score]

Went away in the new caravan last week unsure as to how the dog would take to it, set up at our first site and about 30 seconds later we found him on the bed.......

^^^^
Definitely stressed out.

Must have been a stressful trip. Looks like he lost all his hair.

 

[bunyip]

We had the windows down

 

[two_bit_score]

Must have been a stressful trip. Looks like he lost all his hair.

We had the windows down

:drink:

 

[Fade2blk]