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Originally Posted by whitsend@mom
Alumatube -
You are absolutely gonna LOVE your Pyre. Suggestion - They make strong protective bonds with whatever or whomever they are put out with as pups, and then will guard them with their very lives. A Pyre bonded to & guarding a herd of sheep or goats will kill anything threatening that herd. They will even eat a baby goat that is born dead (or dies shortly after birth), ONLY to protect the rest of the herd from predators smelling the dead animal and coming in for more. If they bond to you, I suggest you warn your friends & family not to approach your house late at night. But once they see you & that friend or family member together, your Pyre will love your visitor. You & your visitors will also have to learn to not hear your Pyre's night time barking, barking that can be heard in the next county. We got over her barking but our visiting kids never did and we could hear them at 3:00 am shouting out the window for her to shut up!!! Our Pyre found a very unusual (in Central Texas) porkepine (I know, sp ???) around the house, decided it was a threat to us and promptly killed it & walked away. When the sun came up, I called Flower (our Pyre) up to the house and up she came for her morning loving. That's when I found the quils buried in her lips, tounge and inside her mouth. I tried removing a few quils, and she just stood there with all this love streaming from her eyes. Then I remembered the barbs at the end of the quills, so I took her to the vet for them to remove the quills properly & painlessly. Flower NEVER showd the least pain or discomfort.
After more than 14 years with us, her old body joints gave out on her and getting up to eat or go to the bathroom was just too painful for her and we had to make that hard decision to let her go to sleep. We had her cremated and are keeping her ashes in the house with us to mix with our own ashes when we also take that final trip.
Please do keep us posted as your Pyre grows, along with your love. Pay special attention to her eyes. They will graphically show you her love and devotion.
Warning - They love to dig and the holes can be huge, so much so that most of the time the only thing you can see of them when they are lying down in the hole is their nose & eyes - watching their herd. You will NOT be able to teach them not to dig, or at least we couldn't. We finally accepted them and named Flower's digging as her Flower Pots.
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Hi Whitsend,
I lived in Rolling Oaks back in the ’80s. I got my ’67 Trade Wind in San Marcos in the mid ’80s. Back then I used to ride my bicycle on what shows up on Google Earth as Lone Man Mountain Road, although I don’t remember it as having a name, just a number designation. Wimberley Valley Winery was located there then, and a friend of mine was cellarman at that time.
Sometimes I would come up on a herd of goats being guarded by a Great Pyrenees. When I would pass by a few minutes later on my return trip, the herd would always be gone. Always.
And yes, Nilla is a very sweet dog. I took the picture of her with Susan and Amy Saturday afternoon at Airstream of Arkansas. Nilla charmed everyone.