Posted by Jennifer on July 28, 2004 at 20:37:13:
I don't have a sick goat question, but with all the good advise and goat people visiting this board I was hopeing someone could give me advice on my Great Pyrenese. I bought a 6 month old Great Pyreness puppy as a livestock guardian dog two weeks ago. The people I bought him from had said he has been around goats/chickens and cattle. (They had him in with the cattle) She said she was selling him because she is downsizing her goat herd and didn't need him and his father. which I believed because she also told me most of her goats was for sale. Problem, is now that he is home he has been in with goats for two weeks and I have caught him chasing the goats many times. He does it in a "playful" manner. and he is still very playful. We introduced him to our german shepherd before putting him in goat pasture to make sure they knew each other belonged here and all the puppy wanted to do was play! But he does wiegh over 80lbs and I am afraid this behavior with goats is going to turn into a bad habit or he might get more aggresive about it and end up biting them or prey drive kicking in and he ends up killing one. Is this normal for a a LGD puppy? Has anyone else had this problem with LGD dogs?How do I break him of it? He seems to have absolutely no concept of what "NO" means. as I have yelled no at him and he just gives me a "huh?" look. It has no effect on him at all! But they had never even put a collar on him before. He is the only dog in pasture. He was in with an adult pyreness (his father) at previous owners farm. If anyone has any advise or has LGD dogs of their own I could REALLY use the advise..please! thank you.