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What is your Livestock Guard Animal? Also how many and why them? Please share any other info you care to share about them!!
My LGD is an Anatolian Shepherd. Her name is Callie and she is four months old now. She wouldn't be able to really protect the goats if a predator were to come after them because she is still a bit to young and small, but she doesn't know that. She already growls and barks at anything she thinks is abnormal or strange. She was doing this at 9 weeks!! It is amazing how quickly these dogs mature.She lives with two Great Pyrenees' who are 100+ pounds and yet she somehow bosses them around. It is so funny. She loves them and they love her but she lets them know she's boss sometimes!! I had the opportunity to buy a Great Pyrenees, but I really wanted an Anatolian. I like how they have shorter hair so they can stay cool in the hot climate. I also like the look better and their fierceness. If they don't want something near their animals then they make it go away one way or another. When I was first getting into goats I knew I had to have an LGD because there are so many coyotes here, so I was reading up on goat LDG's and it seemed like everybody had an Anatolian and they loved them. So I became set on getting an Anatolian. I ended up becoming very fortunate and found Callie. She is an absolute angel and I couldn't love her more. It took a bit of training but she listens pretty good, in a sense. She sometimes sits and comes if you tell her to. But she DOES no what "NO" means. After alot of time she learned to not give you "love bites" but to give kisses, which she does quite often. She also comes into the house once a day just to hang out and get some love. I also go out there with her and I lie down on the ground and she will lay right with me and fall asleep. Her favorite thing in the world it to lay on her back and put her head on your lap as you are sitting down and if you stroke her head and her face then she will crash. She lives for it.
My LGD is an Anatolian Shepherd. Her name is Callie and she is four months old now. She wouldn't be able to really protect the goats if a predator were to come after them because she is still a bit to young and small, but she doesn't know that. She already growls and barks at anything she thinks is abnormal or strange. She was doing this at 9 weeks!! It is amazing how quickly these dogs mature.She lives with two Great Pyrenees' who are 100+ pounds and yet she somehow bosses them around. It is so funny. She loves them and they love her but she lets them know she's boss sometimes!! I had the opportunity to buy a Great Pyrenees, but I really wanted an Anatolian. I like how they have shorter hair so they can stay cool in the hot climate. I also like the look better and their fierceness. If they don't want something near their animals then they make it go away one way or another. When I was first getting into goats I knew I had to have an LGD because there are so many coyotes here, so I was reading up on goat LDG's and it seemed like everybody had an Anatolian and they loved them. So I became set on getting an Anatolian. I ended up becoming very fortunate and found Callie. She is an absolute angel and I couldn't love her more. It took a bit of training but she listens pretty good, in a sense. She sometimes sits and comes if you tell her to. But she DOES no what "NO" means. After alot of time she learned to not give you "love bites" but to give kisses, which she does quite often. She also comes into the house once a day just to hang out and get some love. I also go out there with her and I lie down on the ground and she will lay right with me and fall asleep. Her favorite thing in the world it to lay on her back and put her head on your lap as you are sitting down and if you stroke her head and her face then she will crash. She lives for it.
