Callie Pups!New homes & Teaching Moments

Thanks Southern. We are still working with some folks in TN and I trust them from what I see so far. They are more "old school" in their handling so I've avoided asking things of them that I can ask on here.

Mike CHS said:

Thanks Southern. We are still working with some folks in TN and I trust them from what I see so far. They are more "old school" in their handling so I've avoided asking things of them that I can ask on here.

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What do you mean "old school"?

I have such a hard time keeping up with threads on my phone, but I LOVE the puppy pictures! So cute and fluffy! Makes me wish we could have one.

Old School may not have been the correct term but they are among those that does very little socialization of either the parents or the pups. We haven't committed to getting a pup from them because of that. The Aussies they raise or treated like pets but are still good herding dogs. Their LGDs aren't people aggressive but they definitely don't look at the owners as the leaders and I have my doubts about how they get vet care.

These 2 pics were taken when we outside of the new goat barn... we just had my daughters doe kid and we had to whisk them out(bottle feeding this year)... the 10 month old pups Eliza and Chunk came to clean them off and I looked over and saw the pups, snapped a few shots...

You can see there are several in these 2 pics that are attentive, alert, watching and focused... 7 weeks old






Forgive the mess, we are under a great deal of construction here. The mud is not helping! Grrrr

This is Eliza and Chunk cleaning the babies. They do a better job than we do and they are faster at getting them dry.
We did have one issue... Callie came over and Eliza let out a horrific growl... it was the "these are my babies back off"... Callie's hackles went up because no 10 month old female pyr is going to tell her what to do... then Chunk started growling and I decided that it was too big of a party... put Callie in with her pups and Chunk laid down right next to the babies and let Eliza do her job.

Good girl Eliza

Callie... before she was moved

Drying kids

Chunk lays down to not intimidate and lets Eliza continue cleaning

Chunk- the kid thinks it is mommy LOL

Chunk


Notice Eliza's face? She has some battle scars... no idea what she tangled with recently but she has quite a few scabs on her face and head. She has been going under the gate (there is a hole for that) to the front field at night and she camps out under a cluster of trees... there has been something out there she doesn't like. DS found a partially eaten fawn closeby and another fawn carcass a week ago, this am a coon.. coyotes have been very active here so Eliza (our patroller) is out on patrol apparently keeping watch. She is a good dog. Chunk stays withthe goats for the most part and daddy Badger is wherever he needs to be when he needs to be there.

Love the pics! All the pups are growing up so fast!

Yesterday was finally dry enough... and I use that term lightly, for us to take pups to the field. Our friends that help us with the pups came so we had about 6 people out there to supervise.
We also brought Amy up. Amy and Chunk did get put up as they are not fond of anyone being in their field.
So... pups like to run after the chickens... no surprise there as they are toli's some goat kids were running around and a few pups thought they were something to play with. Gave a few corrections and pulled out the training lead but didn't really use it. It was more of a watch and observe time. Several are more exploratory, some are just very focused and meander around more slowly, others are what's that what's that and are here there and everywhere.
4 pups felt the wire.

Callie was furious at that wire and went crazy running to see what was hurting her babies. So of course Eliza doesn't like Callie ripping through "her" field. Runs after Callie trying to figure out why she is running all over... next thing it looks like it will be "on" between the two. UGH
I ran a little interference and got between them walking and using my body to push back against Eliza. * If you are not familiar with how to do this or how to read fight mode DO NOT DO THIS.

Got Eliza pushed back and moved out of the way... brat went right back. Decided to but Eliza in the barn. Eliza has taken complete ownership of this field. Came right up and over the gate. She does not back down but all was well and there was peace.

Eliza is not the high confident dog outside the field as she is in her field. I was impressed however that at just turning 11 months there is no backing down. Good dog. Amy, Eliza, Chunk, Badger are all together today.... Will take Callie and pups out to the field but Amy will get put up.

Hope to take some pics today and get them posted.

The one pup that was running and grabbed a chicken (that was then corrected) later walked around the chicken. Smart dog. Hope they all do that.

Good pups! Here's hoping they figure out staying away from wire and chickens! Something tells me they'll figure out the wire before the chickens.

Well... waiting on UC Davis.
Got all excited yesterday when I got the 13 emails ... yeah one for EACH INDIVIDUAL DOG!
that excitement turned sour quick... It was to verify all info.

So anyway... any day now.

My friend who shall remain nameless, Babs, says she thinks there is some pyr in the woodpile!

Told her the only thing that could make a Toli better is to have some pyr in him anyway!

I love these pups and it could end up any which way... what do you all think?

I think....they're all stinking adorable and will be amazing LGDs!
I love those oh-so-serious faces!!!