Rise
02-11-2009, 09:28 AM
Hello all,
I found this website when doing some research on the breed. I've had dogs my entire life but never a Great Pyr.
I work in a grooming salon and one of our regulars came in with 3 puppies she found wandering around her neighborhood. She lives a great deal out of the way almost in the country area and figured someone was missing some sort of livestock guarding puppies or selling them, etc..
They were scanned for chips with nothing, no collars, dirty, infested with fleas, worms and could hardly tell they were even white!
She had no idea what to do with them so I told her i'd keep them and try to find the owners or at least find them good homes.
To make a longer story short I found homes for two of them and fell in love with one and kept her. I'm not positive she's pure bred or anything but I do know she has Pyrenees in her. She is 5 months old now and 62lbs her name is Pyrrha.
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g13/veddersucks/Pyrrha5.jpg
After cleaning her up when I first brought her home, vet estimated that she was 3 months at this time. She was also losing fur around her eyes so I had a scraping done and it's all growing back now. It was a small case of demo-mange.
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g13/veddersucks/pyrrhastick.jpg
My beautiful girl today, she loves to fetch but only sticks for some reason
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g13/veddersucks/play-3.jpg
Playing with my German Shepherd, Pandora.
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g13/veddersucks/attention.jpg
She also "smiles" usually if someone is trying to spray her with a dog perfume but even when greeting people who come inside she proudly shows them her teeth.
Another Great Pyr that comes into the grooming salon every few months for a good bath/brush also smiles like this. I was thinking maybe it's a breed thing that they are known for?
I hope you enjoyed my pictures, and any information on if you think she's mixed or pure would be great. A few people have said she's smaller then a pyrenees should be and might have some golden in her with her love for water and fetching. She also LOVES other animals and children and although I have two german shepherds and a husky mix who love getting out of the yard but she never leaves. One of my shepherds has opened the gate before and they were in the front yard but not Pyrrha she was still on the back porch barking as if to tattle on them!
I found this website when doing some research on the breed. I've had dogs my entire life but never a Great Pyr.
I work in a grooming salon and one of our regulars came in with 3 puppies she found wandering around her neighborhood. She lives a great deal out of the way almost in the country area and figured someone was missing some sort of livestock guarding puppies or selling them, etc..
They were scanned for chips with nothing, no collars, dirty, infested with fleas, worms and could hardly tell they were even white!
She had no idea what to do with them so I told her i'd keep them and try to find the owners or at least find them good homes.
To make a longer story short I found homes for two of them and fell in love with one and kept her. I'm not positive she's pure bred or anything but I do know she has Pyrenees in her. She is 5 months old now and 62lbs her name is Pyrrha.
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g13/veddersucks/Pyrrha5.jpg
After cleaning her up when I first brought her home, vet estimated that she was 3 months at this time. She was also losing fur around her eyes so I had a scraping done and it's all growing back now. It was a small case of demo-mange.
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g13/veddersucks/pyrrhastick.jpg
My beautiful girl today, she loves to fetch but only sticks for some reason
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g13/veddersucks/play-3.jpg
Playing with my German Shepherd, Pandora.
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g13/veddersucks/attention.jpg
She also "smiles" usually if someone is trying to spray her with a dog perfume but even when greeting people who come inside she proudly shows them her teeth.
Another Great Pyr that comes into the grooming salon every few months for a good bath/brush also smiles like this. I was thinking maybe it's a breed thing that they are known for?
I hope you enjoyed my pictures, and any information on if you think she's mixed or pure would be great. A few people have said she's smaller then a pyrenees should be and might have some golden in her with her love for water and fetching. She also LOVES other animals and children and although I have two german shepherds and a husky mix who love getting out of the yard but she never leaves. One of my shepherds has opened the gate before and they were in the front yard but not Pyrrha she was still on the back porch barking as if to tattle on them!