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Posted by Dalice on June 29, 2002 at 08:50:35:

I was lucky, someone gave me Lily, my Gr. Pyr. so basically I got to try her out for free. It cost 150.00 at the vet for her shots and heart worm, bla bla bla. But she has really worked out well. The puppy stage is kind of long! She chewed up everything in sight. I forgot and left the garden hose in the goat tank several times last summer and when I when come back out she had what she could pull into the pen shredded into a million kazillion pieces. I used to leave her tied up in the goat pen too because she tried to play rough with the goats and they certainly didn't appreciate that! But this spring, when she was about 15 months old I was able to let her loose and she is just fine. She is a very sweet girl, the goats have adjusted and they all lay around together now. I have not had her spade as yet. I would like to get a litter of pups out of her, because she has such a great disposition. I could use a couple more dogs in my other pens. She is in the main pen but can't get to the others. I have noticed that I haven't seen any possums in my barn eating cat food this year. I don't know if it's because they smell her or what. She couldn't get to them if they were there, but maybe they don't know that. We had a donkey for a while. He kept the goats safe by not letting them out of the barn. If they, the goats, peaked out of the barn, he stamped his hoof and they scurried back in. He has a stud donkey, so I don't know if that was the reason, or because he was too young. Anyhow, the Gr. Pyr. has been a blessing to our goat herd. Dalice


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