Re: [pyrnet] Dogs & other critters

["Linda J. Anderson" <nightsky@direcway.com>]

Thanks for the encouraging words!  Today, I'm wondering if it is actually
chickens (which he has bothered little), or just Ski being strange about
him.  Toby is calm and sleeping in front of the barn and I have had him out
with Snowman all day with no trouble.  I like your advice - it builds on
what I started. I'm keeping Ski entirely away from him for the next two
days, just to let things cool down, so to speak.  I sure hope it all works
out.

>>       I've had Pyrs and horses for 14 years. What I do with my dogs is
when
> I get a puppy I spend about two weeks having him come with me everywhere
on
> my chores to feed the horses in the barn.  ( I have seven, I'm a Lipizzan
> breeder).Then I put my horses out in the pasture and again I watch and I
> correct him any time he trys to chase, nip or get too close to my horses.
> Then I take him in the house. I don't let him loose with my horses until I
> have convinced him that he can't chase them.
>      If your donkey doesn't go in a barn just take your pyrs leashed and
> spend a little time every day in the pasture with the chickens and the
> donkey. But I find it's better in a smaller space where things are
quieter.
> You have to moniter them until gradually they will think of these animals
as
> their flock. It takes time being with you and the other animals.
>       So many people think Pyrs aren't very trainable. But mine really
have
> been. My two year old Pyr Sweeney-Mac will not chase horses. However if I
> let a few horses out to eat down the high grass along our forest (our
whole
> property is fenced), the dog knows that these horses are not allowed to
> wander down to the lawns around the house. He will bark and drive them
back.
> He learned this simply from watching me go out and flapping a bag at the
> horses to make them go away from the house lawns. Yet he won't chase them
> any other time. These dogs can learn alot. It just takes the time
investment
> to teach them.
>                      Chris
>
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