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Jackie Wood here.  I wanted you all to know that I am leaving you.  I will monitor the list as my time allows but I cant keep up with all my other duties to other lists as moderator.

So I wont be receiving any more emails automatically.  That does not mean Im not available.  If any of you need information on guardians please feel free to contact me offlist,and I'll do my best to find an answer for you.

Jackie Wood tanimara@townsqr.com

I dont think I need to say much more than I am home safe and happy as if I had good sense.  After I get some sleep I'll post some puppy pictures....LO L  Just Kidding

Here are pics of my new babies until I get more. They dont even have names yet.

Jackie

Picture number 1 is my granddaughter Cheyenne and her new show pup she is going to handle herself.

2 My new male

3 My new female

4 my new female pic 2

5 Cheyenne and her first handling lesson stacking uncle Patrick.  "Ch Patorama's Guilty as Charged" son of Ch Pyrless Prime Time HOF HOF

Now on a more serious note, Im off to bed!

Later,
Jackie

I often check my PMs on this site but failed to realize when you get so many they automatically go to a different page.  Today I wanted to PM a person and ended up finding 3 pages of PMs that I had not read!  Duh!

So for any of you who have PM'd me in the past and I did not answer, it was only because I didn't realize  they were there.  Please forgive.  I would never intentionally ignore a request for information or for help.

Jackie Wood
Tanimara Great Pyrenees

I got this email from a rescue person I know in TN.  She rescues, retrains, and rehomes guardians.  She has this one male that is not going to make a guardian and she is looking for a pet home for him.  Apparently he is a HUGE dog even for a Pyr.  I'd post this direct to Chelle but Pippin might kick his butt, so he's still up for grabs...lol

Jackie

If anyone is interested in "Big Dan" contact Brenda directly at DaylilyRidge@comcast.net

Go to link below for pics of Big Dan.

Jackie

Hi Jackie,

I have a 5 year old "yard dog" that will never be a guardian--he wants to
guard me and follow me everywhere. He even will jump into the back of my
truck to ride. I have a special cage on the truck bed that prevents the dogs
from getting out/jumping overboard. Do you help place "yard pets"? He is Big
Dan on my PetFinder page
http://search.petfinder.com/petnote/displaypet.cgi?petid=6460898 and if you
do, keep him in mind.

He had just saved her from a fire in her house, rescuing her by carrying her out of the house into her front yard, while he continued to fight the fire.

She is pregnant.

The firefighter was afraid of her at first, because he had never been around a Doberman before.

When he finally got done putting the fire out, he sat down to catch his breath and rest.

A photographer from the Charlotte, North Carolina newspaper, "The Observer," noticed this red Doberman in the distance looking at the fireman.

He saw her walking straight toward the fireman and wondered what she was going to do.

As he raised his camera, she came up to the tired man who had saved her life and the lives of her unborn babies, and kissed him, just as the photographer snapped this photograph.

For all of you that own Pyrs or other livestock guardian dogs (LGDs). You may appreicate this story.

I have an email list for people that use Pyrs as guardians.  To help educate them on what to expect, what not to expect and what to do about it etc.

A friend on the list has been in close contact with me on a pup she bought from a BYB.  No genetic testing of the parents etc.  Horrid conditions.

Well Waco is his name and Waco has grown into a good livestock guardian.  Yesterday Sherry contacted me off list to tell me that Waco was missing and had been missing since the night before.  She was worried sick and asked my opinion on what to do etc.  The story she told me indicated that he was most likely laying somewhere hurt.  Dry lot for the goats had a big trampled area in it like there had been a fight.  Her grown female and 3 pups about 3 mo old were all looking into the woods/swampy area behind their property and looked "so sad".  I told her to get some help and wade through the mess just in case he was down and hurt.  Well this is the story I got from her late yesterday evening.  I am fowarding it to you so that it may be a help in understanding your dogs temperament. (Just to explain, Sherry is an x-vet-tech).

Waco is found, not in good shape but hes home. We found him about 4pm this afternoon in our swamp. We liked to never have gotten him out of there. Had to use neighbors tractor to get him. I had to stich his face up, he was dehydrated, and as far as I can tell nothing broken. But he fought something really big, looks like claw marks ripped his face open in four deep places. He has about thirty stiches along his rib cage, he was so lucky as they are not as deep were vital oragans would have been. If it had been any further back it would have gutted him. Sorry it took so long to reply but I stiched him up, we will try and load him tomorrow to go have xrays to make sure nothing really is broken. I called the vet,
he told me to bring him in around noon for the xrays, that I could stich as good as he could. A vet tech that lives down this way brought me fluids for him, and helped for an hour or so. The main thing now is infection, as I dont know how long he laid in the nasty swamp yuck. The other dogs are on the porch refusing to leave the house, now I have more problems. But hes restings now, and I will leave him alone for awhile, he looks so beaten. Goats are locked in the barn, until we figure out what got ahold of him or have dogs that will leave the porch.  Jackie:)) Will call ya after vet visit. Thanks so much for the prayers, we needed them. Sherry

This is a shot of Waco taken the day before the incident.

I hate to write this as much as I hated to talk to Chelle this morning.  We lost Arwen and her brother Aragorn to the heat this weekend.  I dont know how to say it any other way.

The heat here this weekend was 105 with moderate humidity.  They were in the pasture with the other dogs and goats.  Pleanty of shade, pleanty of water and a pond.  At noon they were ok and at 6 pm they were both dead.

There are times when we do all we can and try to do it right.  Often we can look back and see what we could have done differently.  But not this time.  Short of moving all the dogs (8 of them) into the house with AC, there was nothing I could do or could have forseen.  Because if I could have forseen this they would have all been in the house.

Todd and I have broken hearts as do Chelle and Randy, who were taking Arwen home with them this month.

Chelle and I have talked at length this am and cried together over this.  Pippin, Arwen and Aragorn's brother, did not seem to be effected by the heat, nor did the other dogs or goats.

The heat continues today and tomorrow here in the midwest with a break coming hopefully Tuesday night or Wednesday.  So take extra precautions with your animals this week.  I did, but it did not help.....

Jackie

Pic: Dutch (Nubian) Aragorn and Arwen on the right