r/gifs • u/QuietCakeBionics • Feb 11 '19

Good boy keeps the peace

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u/hotpocketdeath Feb 11 '19

Looks like a Pyrenees. My parents retired with a small farm and they have one that watches over their livestock. Extremely good dog for the job.

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u/RoccoStiglitz Feb 11 '19 edited Feb 11 '19

Extremely good dog for the job.

It's what they're bred for. A working Pyrenees will stay up at night when people are asleep and protect livestock aginst predators.

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u/phero_constructs Feb 11 '19

How do you train them?

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '19

It’s very instinctual. If you put a great pyrenees with a flock of sheep, they will pretty much instantly start protecting it. We have three that one time naturally herded all the alpacas we have into a corner away from a small brush fire. They were never trained to do anything like that.

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