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01-02-2016, 08:32 PM
I'm feeling very thankful right now for our wonderful livestock guardians. Daisy is still hanging in there. She has her good days and her bad days, and I'm resigned to the fact that she'll probably always moves stiffly, but she seems happy with life and we will keep her around as long as that's the case.
Pluto is turning into a wonderful goat guardian. He's a beautiful dog and he's good with the goats. He's about eight months old and bigger than most of them, but he seems to be getting ever gentler with them as he grows.
We've had to reprimand him occasionally for short spurts of chasing and for teasing Tigerlily, but that almost never happens any more. It's also been a while since I've had to scold him for barking at the horses. He doesn't like the horses--they sometimes chase the goats--but he's finally learning that he must accept them. For a couple of months he was waking us up in the night because he would bark at nothing or at things far outside his territory (we know it's not important if Daisy isn't barking). But he's been toning that down lately as well. I'm hoping by summer he'll have figured out what things are actually worth making noise about. So far I'm very please with this dog and I hope he gives us many years of good service.
Pluto is turning into a wonderful goat guardian. He's a beautiful dog and he's good with the goats. He's about eight months old and bigger than most of them, but he seems to be getting ever gentler with them as he grows.
We've had to reprimand him occasionally for short spurts of chasing and for teasing Tigerlily, but that almost never happens any more. It's also been a while since I've had to scold him for barking at the horses. He doesn't like the horses--they sometimes chase the goats--but he's finally learning that he must accept them. For a couple of months he was waking us up in the night because he would bark at nothing or at things far outside his territory (we know it's not important if Daisy isn't barking). But he's been toning that down lately as well. I'm hoping by summer he'll have figured out what things are actually worth making noise about. So far I'm very please with this dog and I hope he gives us many years of good service.