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AAAAAAHHHH you are so brilliant, this is some very basic animal  
husbandry, I was just not thinking. Of course they need to live as a  
pack, of course they would be happier and less stressed.  Duh. You  
have just given me a smack upside the forehead moment. : )   I was  
thinking it had to be breed specific. I am such a dork. Hahahahahaha.

Do you know, I think I remember you getting Sirius, way back when.  I  
will go and look for pics in a tic.

When you said you sounded like James, I re-read it and heard it as  
Foghorn Leghorn. Oh dear. It is going to be terribly at odds for me  
now to hear James' posts like that, and he is the furthest thing  
possible from Foghorn Leghorn, isn't he? I do beg your pardon in  
advance, James, I tend to be so silly anyway and now, it will be much  
much worse.

Thank you, Rob, for the warning on the barking, too. My Anatolian  
rarely barked, but since my experience is limited to him as the  
representative for his breed, I don't know if that's a general  
tendency or I lucked out. I know I never had to wonder if he was on  
duty though, he was never *not*. (I'm sure your Pyrs, are the same, of  
course, but his intensity was a thing of real awe to me, so I still  
like to think of it with wonderment and share it.) The truth is I have  
three rescue corgis and if I can live with them, I could probably live  
with 100 Pyrs. They are um...chatty. : )  Not that there's anything  
wrong with being chatty. Or anything. ; p


M

On Apr 22, 2008, at 7:50 PM, EarthNSky wrote:

> True on both accounts.
> I have a donkey in my pasture at present, along with 3 horses.  I am
> definitely enamored of Jack, though.  I love to hear him bray, and he
> brays when he sees me outside or when Ava comes up to feed him.  He's
> just old and spoiled.
>
> I had Sirius for a few years, and like Rob noted, he barked a lot.  We
> never intended on getting another one, but one kind of fell in my  
> lap as
> a rescue, so Schultz joined Sirius in the pasture.  They both had been
> guardians, not pets per se, but Sirius was always happier it seemed.
> Schultz always looked so sad and did not have that happy smile about
> him.  They were both neutered males, ironically the same age, only a
> month apart.  Once Schultz arrived, Sirius calmed down and did not  
> bark
> as much,hardly at all, I say (OMG, I am starting to both think AND  
> talk
> like James! ;)  )  Perhaps he wasn't so stressed in his job with a
> partner to share the watch.  I dunno. Sirius did start eating more,  
> but
> always allowed Schultz to eat first.  They had separate areas, but
> Sirius always waited for Schultz to finish before he ate.
>
> I never had a fighting incident with the two, either with each other  
> or
> other animals.   The sheep adjusted fine (they were Katahdins)
>
> If you want to see pics of them, I think you can still access my old
> website.  I haven't done anything with it in I don't know how many
> years-maybe 5+ now.  The pages are slow to load.  Just click on Sirius
> and Schultz at the side.
> http://www.earthnsky.50megs.com/
>
> Bev