Comments on: Great Pyrenees and the Norwegian Brown Bear https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/20/great-pyrenees-and-the-norwegi/ Fri, 17 Jun 2022 01:48:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Ruth Kessler https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/20/great-pyrenees-and-the-norwegi/#comment-977267 Fri, 17 Jun 2022 01:48:26 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/11/20/great-pyrenees-and-the-norwegi/#comment-977267 In reply to Chris H..

Yes there was/is. I thought I had it. There were I think 3 short videos. I thought I got it from the lgd.org list back in late 90’s early 2000.

]]> By: Chantel Hayes https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/20/great-pyrenees-and-the-norwegi/#comment-592291 Mon, 04 Jun 2018 15:37:45 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/11/20/great-pyrenees-and-the-norwegi/#comment-592291 I read a wonderful story about Canadian sheep herders that were driving the flock further up into the mountains. They had Great Pyrenees dog’s for hearding and for protection! Well, one guy wasn’t in the middle of the sheep, where I guess you stay in case a bear attacks… And one came running straight at him from the side of the road! He thought he was a goner! Before he knew what was happening 2 of the dogs rushed the bear and drove it back into the woods… Where the other dogs came to help! By that time his other friends had arrived and they were able to get the sheep to safety! There are pictures of him walking, right before the bear comes charging out and then of the dogs running to his aid! ….whew…I can’t even tell that story without getting emotional, cause that is remarkable! Those dogs saved him without any regard to their safety! That just makes me so proud! And I don’t even own one! Lol… But I have chickens and I want a LGD to protect my girls! And they are big enough that if they do get into a fight with something trying to eat my chooks, they aren’t going to get killed! Nothing in my area is big enough to hurt one of these dogs!
Anyways, it was a GREAT story! And I want one of these dogs!

]]> By: Zach D. https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/20/great-pyrenees-and-the-norwegi/#comment-775 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:41:37 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/11/20/great-pyrenees-and-the-norwegi/#comment-775 Some of the more ancient dog breeds seem to have certain traits tatooed on there brain. Most sight hounds will chase anything that move unless there trained not too. Norwiegian Elk hounds will start growling whimpering and sudenly become very energetic if the smell anything like a deer, moose, elk or caribou. Portugese water dogs all love water it’s had to even keep them out of puddles.

]]> By: Chris H. https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/20/great-pyrenees-and-the-norwegi/#comment-774 Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:15:21 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/11/20/great-pyrenees-and-the-norwegi/#comment-774 There was definitely an English version of the pages, I remember reading through the story of the problems with the bears (a mother and two young as I recall) and how they brought the dogs in for a few days to get rid of the bears. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to get at any of the subpages in English yet; I’m hoping they’re in the Wayback archive, but I’m not too familiar with it.I was mightily impressed, particularly in watching the video. While the bear could likely have outmatched the dogs, I suspect there’s something about a few enthusiastic barkers that puts ‘flight’ as a much more attractive option than ‘fight’.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/20/great-pyrenees-and-the-norwegi/#comment-773 Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:18:21 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/11/20/great-pyrenees-and-the-norwegi/#comment-773 Interesting, Chris. There was an English version of the page at one point.

]]> By: Chris H. https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/20/great-pyrenees-and-the-norwegi/#comment-772 Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:18:44 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/11/20/great-pyrenees-and-the-norwegi/#comment-772 I found this page while looking for the original page I had seen years ago. It in fact had a video of the dogs driving the bears off, which I’m still looking for.I’ve come fairly close, though. The original page seems to be gone, but I’ve found it archived in The Wayback Machine:http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.adbsys.no/nphk/1994_Pasvik_Forside.asp.I’m still searching through to see if I can dig out the video, but there are definitely other pictures, and plenty of text if you can translate Norwegian.

]]> By: Anne-Marie https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/20/great-pyrenees-and-the-norwegi/#comment-771 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:48:45 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/11/20/great-pyrenees-and-the-norwegi/#comment-771 An ex-boyfriend of mine grew up on a goat farm and raised Great Pyrenees, their instincts are amazing. He never had to train one, he would just put the pups out with older, experienced dogs and they learned everything the needed to know. They aren’t total defense machines, though, he always had one “pet” that lived in the house instead of tending the goats, and although it would interact with the guard dogs on the property it never tried to take up duties with the livestock.

]]> By: IanR https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/20/great-pyrenees-and-the-norwegi/#comment-770 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:11:35 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/11/20/great-pyrenees-and-the-norwegi/#comment-770 This reminds me of a story I heard from some alpaca farmers – that in response to coyotes on the edge of their property, their dogs (one working, one pet) would take the lead in challenging the coyotes, with their horses and “watch llamas” forming a secondary “defensive line” behind the dogs.

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