dog training problem

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I am haveing a problem with my male{fixed}Great Pyrenees,he is doing his job to well.He will not allow his daughter in the goat fiels at all. He acts like he will attack her,every time she goes near it. He is a great dog except for this,I know he would defend the stock no matter what. Do you think he needs more space? I will not be able to keep him if this keeps up,I need to beable to have the dogs out together.Any ideas?

-- renee oneill{md.} (oneillsr@home.com), February 06, 2001

Answers

Your exactly right, he is doing his job. He understands that other dogs are a risk to his flock, and that includes all dogs. She'll need her own flock if you want her to protect, and she'll need to be with them 24/7. Can you devide the flock? If Pop has his own flock safe, he probobly won't begrudge her a flock, and they'll probobly even be able to share a field. If you just want her around, make her a house dog, and leave him to tend his flock, and be prepared for him to keep her away. Dog nature, I'm afraid.

-- (Mrs.Puck@Excite.com), February 06, 2001.

Sounds like you have a very good dog. He will most likely continue protecting his herd in any size pasture. Instead of trying to "correct" this problem why not look at it from a different angle. First, why do you have the dogs? If it is to protect your herd, the male is doing the job and I would keep the female away from the herd. If you have no way of confining the female you may want to ask yourself: is the daughter an exceptional dog, is she protecting stock, will she be an improvement over the male? If the answer is no you may want to keep the male. If you have the dogs as pets,keep the one you like best. (If you want only a companion dog I might recommend a breed with different instincts, trying to train instinct out of a well bred dog is almost impossible.)

-- Nancy Bakke-McGonigle Mn. Sunset (dmcgonig@smig.net), February 06, 2001.

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