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I read an article today talking about tourist and other do-gooders causing Ranchers headaches. They will see a ranch dog from the road, think it is abandoned, and then try to rescue it…

Then.. Ranchers have to figure out where their trained and seasoned dog is..

There are a couple farms around that have Great Pyrenees livestock guard dogs. The GP are notorious for wandering. Every month or so there will be pictures of them on the county Lost and Found Pets page on FB. They are always trying to get them to the pound.

Just leave them be. They know how to get home.

(actual FB page pic)..........

We used to have a Great Pyrenees as our house dog. He was a great protector of my kids when they were little. He would however get wanderlust every now and then and find a way out of the yard. He was well known in the neighborhood so most times someone would bring him home. We did have to bail him out of doggy jail a time or two.

Centermass wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 2:55 pm I read an article today talking about tourist and other do-gooders causing Ranchers headaches. They will see a ranch dog from the road, think it is abandoned, and then try to rescue it…

Then.. Ranchers have to figure out where their trained and seasoned dog is..

Hmmmm. . .

Invest in an expensive dog.

Invest a lot of time and money in training.

Probably got some expensive vet bills in there too.

Fail to purchase 40 bucks worth of collar, ID tag, and/or microchip with a link to a phone number.

See above for Reason Why I Want to Slap My Fellow Man Upside the Head, Number 920,436.

I know 4 Great Pyrenees in the hood. In all cases they live with one or more small dogs. The Pyrenees are there to keep the coyotes from grabbing the little ones. The Pyrenees are all friendly great temperament but I wouldn’t want to cover their groceries.

Bigslug wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 2:29 pm

Centermass wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 2:55 pm I read an article today talking about tourist and other do-gooders causing Ranchers headaches. They will see a ranch dog from the road, think it is abandoned, and then try to rescue it…

Then.. Ranchers have to figure out where their trained and seasoned dog is..

Hmmmm. . .

Invest in an expensive dog.

Invest a lot of time and money in training.

Probably got some expensive vet bills in there too.

Fail to purchase 40 bucks worth of collar, ID tag, and/or microchip with a link to a phone number.

See above for Reason Why I Want to Slap My Fellow Man Upside the Head, Number 920,436.

Having had farm dogs, a collar wasn’t a good option. They get them snagged on fences and brush. Leaving the collar loose enough that they can pull their head out if they get hung up; there’s probably still collars around here that I haven’t seen in years. I did have mine chipped. They never wandered far enough to need the use of the chip. Quit trying collars a long time ago.

I used my last dogs collar to attach her food bucket to a post. Otherwise she’d push it under the porch and I’d have to crawl under there to get it out.

Again today......

Japhy wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:49 am I know 4 Great Pyrenees in the hood. In all cases they live with one or more small dogs. The Pyrenees are there to keep the coyotes from grabbing the little ones. The Pyrenees are all friendly great temperament but I wouldn’t want to cover their groceries.

Nor clean up their gargantuan poops

Jay wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 1:16 pm

Bigslug wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 2:29 pm

Centermass wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 2:55 pm I read an article today talking about tourist and other do-gooders causing Ranchers headaches. They will see a ranch dog from the road, think it is abandoned, and then try to rescue it…

Then.. Ranchers have to figure out where their trained and seasoned dog is..

Hmmmm. . .

Invest in an expensive dog.

Invest a lot of time and money in training.

Probably got some expensive vet bills in there too.

Fail to purchase 40 bucks worth of collar, ID tag, and/or microchip with a link to a phone number.

See above for Reason Why I Want to Slap My Fellow Man Upside the Head, Number 920,436.

Having had farm dogs, a collar wasn’t a good option. They get them snagged on fences and brush. Leaving the collar loose enough that they can pull their head out if they get hung up; there’s probably still collars around here that I haven’t seen in years. I did have mine chipped. They never wandered far enough to need the use of the chip. Quit trying collars a long time ago.

I used my last dogs collar to attach her food bucket to a post. Otherwise she’d push it under the porch and I’d have to crawl under there to get it out.

When I had the ranch my dogs never wore a collar. They were also trained to a stupid level to come back to me regardless of what got their attention, including things like deer and other wildlife. And when I go hiking my dogs don’t go father than 10-15 feet away from me off leash. The command “that’s far enough” makes them stop on their tracks and wait for me. I HATE collars on dogs.

People in these parts pick up hunting dogs at times when there is no need to and when they do they usually call the phone number on the collar and get it back to the owner.

Sometime though a collar could be a death sentence when it gets caught on something, as I will relate below:

We were hunting rabbits with beagles and the pack took off across a field that was easily 80 acres. We were able to call the dog pack back except
for one dog. I got elected to go get the dog since being in my 60's I was the youngest. So off I go and finally located the dog; but, it was under
ground after going in a den and would not come out, but, I could hear it raising cane in there.

I had to go back across the field to find a shovel in the farmers shed and walk back again and dig the dog out of it's trap and did find it with
a root through the collar holding the dog a couple of yds back in that hole it was in.