[PyrNet-L] why I chose a pyr

[Hallgren <pyrs@erols.com>]

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>> I had always wanted goats as a child but never could have them as we
> lived in the city  limits and this was not allowed, but always said one
> day I would have them.  After getting married and moving to the country
> I got my goats two baby nigerian/pygmy mixes, we bottle fed them took
> them for walks, they were our babies.  We had them for three years, for
> me to come home one day and find six dogs in my yard and my my babies
> dead.
>      I had heard there were some type of dog that was gardian dog to
> goats but new no more of them.  I could not even think of replacing my
> goats at this time.  About two years later my husband went out and
> bought me a pair of pygmy's for my birthday.  Well this started my
> search, I talked to alot of people and went to the library and read up
> on the different types of guardians and now I new what I wanted and even
> knew how to spell it, Great Pyreness.  I thought great I am going to
> find one I don't care how much it cost, I am getting one.  Not so easy,
> where I live the pyr is not a popular breed and the people that bred
> them for show didn't want to talk to me about guardians.  So I went to
> another state and so on.
>      It was over two years of searching before I found someone many
> states away who was willing to ship me what I had been waiting so long
> for.  The pups were born on christmas eve and eight weeks later we were
> at the airport to pick up my pup, or should I say puppies, at the last
> minute I decided I wanted 2 not 1. So to everyones suprise we picked up
> the puppies and I knew from that moment they whould be special.  We
> named them Cheyann and Angel Bear.
>      My girls will be three this christmas, they guard my heard of 12
> goats now and there is not one day that I worry about there safety.  I
> have seen them in action!  They also have a big brother now Maximillion
> is a eight year old pyr that I rescued that is very well loved by
> everyone.  They will always be my favorite breed.
> 
> Kellie