my friends have a GP and it is wonderful with the goats, however I have yet to find a canine that doesn't enjoy the taste of duck meat. I have never had a GP though. I have had three different mutt breeds and they all tried to get my ducks. Good luck, maybe someone who has had one could help more

OK thanks! Anyone else who knows or can give me some good advice please do!

Hi Gennym - all you could ever want to know about a Great Pyrenees, including how to train for all kinds of livestock guarding and how to select for a good LGD from a litter, is at this site:

http://www.sonic.net/~cdlcruz/GPCC/library.htm

Good luck - I envy you the experience of having a Pyr for the first time. They bark, they roam, but they are the most wonderful, beautiful dogs in the world nevertheless. We just lost our 12 year old male and our 11 year old female is limping along on her next-to-last legs. They won't be the last Pyrs in our lives!

thanks! And, I'm sorry for your loss. We lost ours after 10 years. He was a good ol' boy.

Can I jump in? GP's are my favorite dog and we have had a lot of dogs over the last almost 60 years. We lost our beloved Homer about a year ago, he was 11 and a wonderful gentle animal that loved everything except coyotes and other dogs. The old guys kidneys just shut down.

The girls were raising sheep as a 4-H project and coyotes were getting more than a few. The other dogs would bark but seemed afraid of the coyotes. After we got old Homer we never lost another sheep. I think they would take one look and decide I don't think so.

There were ducks, geese and turkeys plus chickens and the dog seemed to like watching them. Never a problem with him bothering them. We have had 2 other GP's over the years but they were not guardian dogs like the last.

We now have a 10 month old GP pup, I consider them pups until they are about 18 months old. With the girls gone we don't have a menagerie of fowl around anymore but the pup is in with the sheep except when someone takes him out to play and romp with him. This guys name is Bear, he looks like a polar bear except for the brown slash between his eyes.

Can you tell that I'm a fan of pyrennes?

One thing more, a feral cat wandered down the creek that runs close to the house. It and Homer became buddies, the cat would eat the dog food and the dog would just watch wagging his tail.The two would lay down and sleep together. The cat would never let anyone get close to him but the two were inseparable. He left when Homer had to be put down. Sorry to run on but you hit on a favorite topic.

Gandle, your GP sounded sweet. Mufassa was too. He was one of the best dogs we've ever had. We just didn't have our ducks or our cat when we had him. So, he was never around any animals but dogs his whole life. I think he probably would have hurt a cat or something. He was very protective of 'us' the other dogs, and the yard. So, anything that came in that wasn't supposed to come in made him very upset and angry. He was so precious though. I miss him so much. We had him for 10 years but here is a picture of him when he was about 3 or 4. I forgot again which link to copy and paste here when your usuing tinypic.com to post pics. Can someone remind me? Do you post the TAG, URL, IMG, or the LINK???? I'll try to post it anyways though... thanks..

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