Rosasharn's Great Pyrenees
and Livestock Guardian Dogs

PUPPIES AVAILABLE NOW!
Guardians and Pets

Our goats and poultry are all guarded by Livestock Guardian Dogs
who live in the pens with them.We primarilly use and breed Great Pyrenees, from working Livestock Guardian lines, as in our opinion they are best suited for our farm and family. We have one teriffic Anatolian Shepherd, Ahu, who takes care of our bucks and has been bred to our GPYR Stud, producing a wonderful LGD cross.

Our puppies are all bred, whelped, weaned and raised right in our goat pens. From the time they open their eyes they are interacting with goats, family and farm visitors. This lays the foundation for a reliable working life. They are well imprinted on their charges and well socialized to humans. They model their mother and receive their earliest training from her and learn early respect from the goats and us as needed.
Our reccomendations for raising successful and reliable LGDs are to move your puppy directly from our goat pen to your livestock. Do not take it into your house unless you want a house-dog. A parallel pen affords the opportunity for your puppy to live side by side to their charges without having the opportunity for negative interactions. You don't want the puppy to be beat up or intimidated by your livestock so for the safty of both a parallel pen is invaluable. It is important to correct misbehavior immediately and early but just as important is to avoid the opportunity for misbehavior to occur. Bring your puppy into the livestock pen with you whenever you go in for chaperoned visits until you feel the livestock accept him/her and until you feel the puppy will not make michief with his/her charges. Remember that LGD puppies are puppies and will play like puppies, especially betweek 9-18 months of age. They should be supervised, especailly with young goats or does. Our young dogs spend this period with our mature bucks who are less likely to run when chased and more likely to disciple with a head but as needed. Our goats wear bells which allert us to their running and give us the opportunity to repremand the puppies acordingly. We do not reccomend toys that resemble animals; no squeeky stuffed animals, nor do we play chase and fetch games with our LGDs. Kongs are good toys as are wooden sticks and rope knots. Do not take your dog for walks off your property as this will encourage the thought that his teratory includes more than your farm, and will lead to roaming tendencies. Walking your pen perimiters reinforces his boundries. We highly reccomend that you stimulate your puppy and build your relationship with it through obediance training. This will ensure that you remain dominant in the relationship and allow you ease of handling when you need to lead or load your 100+ lb. dog. You should be able to call and handle your dog at all times; it should allow you to remove any object (food, toy, etc). Discipline should be achieved by voice comand first reinforced with "dog language" such as grabbing the muzzle, growling and physically asserting your dominance by rolling the puppy to the ground, belly up if needed. If you want your dog to be socialized to other dogs or people you must introduce and reintroduce early and often (your best window of imprinting is within the first 18 weeks of age). Your dog can learn that your other dogs are accepted as part of the herd while strange dogs are not to be tolerated. LGDs work very well in teams and we do reccomend raising two together for the cooperative work effort you will experience and because puppies raised together will generally focus their playful energies toward each other in preferance to chasing goats. We are happy to discuss forther training with you in detail.

Our dogs are AKC registered and cleared for hip and other genetic issues