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Great Pyrenees Discussions / Re: Is this a Pyr thing?
« on: July 11, 2005, 10:42:02 pm »
Some Pyrs like to patrole at night even as the owners sleep. Blizzard sleeps in the hall, between all the bedrooms. I can hear her getting up at about 10, moving from sleeping across the front door, to the hallway.

The around 12, she gets up, goes down to the basement, sniffs around and comes back up, and begins laying across the hall to block it. (I  know, I've almost tripped over her a few times)

Around 2 am, she begins to pace. She'll check into each bedroom and if a door is closed, she'll scratch untill someone wakes up to opens it. She does not like doors closed when she's on patrole! Then she'll choose wich one of the kids' bedrooms she'll sleep in and lay infront of the window (we have floor to ceiling windows), blocking it the same way she blocks a doorway.
By the time we all wake up in the morning, she's normally found sleeping across the front door again. I honestly beleive her body's clock tells her to get up ever two hours and check everything out. Early morning, when I first wake up (about 5 am) she is ready to eat. Then that's it. She wants nothing more unless it's an extra special treat, for the rest of the day.

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Jackie,

 "The outer coat can be straight or wavy but should never be curly or cottony."


That's what I meant!
I met her at Purina sponsered dog event out here. It was just a basic little family thing. Rescue groups came out, like SPOTS and so on, as well as a family fun day with frizby demos and AKC breed information.

Anyway, We had Bliz and were walking around and up comes another woman with a Pyr too. I had to make sure at first. I mean the features looked Pyr, but.. the hair.. it was intensly wavishly curly? Expecially along the back of her neck, oddly along her sides and down her back legs. Not tight ringlets that you find in a poodle, but tightly wavish hair. I'm not sure how to discribe it but it looks so odd.
Hard to discribe. I asked if I could pet her, but as soon as I allowed the dog to sniff me, she barked. I never got to touch the hair.

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They are all so sweet! Cute babies.

I could almost bet they will be adopted soon to a very loving family.

But, Reilly and Robin have my heart!
Those two boys...
just prescious!

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Great Pyrenees Discussions / Re: Why is this?
« on: July 11, 2005, 04:17:21 pm »
Nah, Blizzard wont leave the bowl , even when she is done eating. Once it's gone,she curls up to sleep and wait for the next meal right next to the bowl. The cat strolls by and she'll peek open one eye and grumble at him.


I caught her once, with her nose in 40lb bag of Natural Choice... SLEEPING!!!
I had forgotten to put the rest in the large plastic ben and seal it up after I fed her. That'll teach me.

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Great Pyrenees Discussions / Re: Summer heat - Cut back his fur?
« on: July 11, 2005, 03:59:31 pm »
I've never had Blizzard cut , but I have done a few things myself.

Like the tufts behind her ears and under the flaps. I keep those shaved and trimmed well so air cirulation keeps the ear canal dry and free from possible infections. Of course, cleaning once a week helps too.

In the summer, I   shave the inside of her back thighs, along the genital area and about 1/4 of the way up her belly. She loves this! She lays flat in the cool grass and just... well, you can see the pleasure in her eyes.


Other than that, it's all I do. Oh, and lot's of raking/combing/brushing. Matts are not allowed! I really, really dispise any kind of matting on my dog.


Oops, I forgot one other place I keep trimmed, but it's hidden and no one ever notices it. A tiny 1/2 inch square between the shoulder blades, but it's later covered up by the longer strands around her neck and shoulders. This is where I make sure her Front Line is applied to the skin and not caught up in the denser undercoat, only be in ineffective in protecting her from fleas and ticks.

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I would love to show her! But, no digi cam. Well, we did have one but the kids throught it was a toy and we weren't smart enough to put it up so they couldn't get it.
It was a sad sad day the digi cam met it's demise. We'd only had it for a few days.

Well, needly to say a very frustrated husband claimed we'd never get another.  He's loving,but grumpy..lol

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I'd make room for all three! Pyrs... are... wow, just wow..

How sad. I know we got Blizzard from a breeder who couldn't sell her girls. She had three left. I keep kicking myself for not taking ALL of them.

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Great Pyrenees Discussions / Re: Do all Pyrs blow their whole coat?
« on: July 11, 2005, 08:42:29 am »
Yay for rakes!

I love mine, too.  So does Blizzard!

In fact, yesterday she got a little ticked that I was using a smaller version on the Pom I'm fostering.
I was kind of surprised that this Pom's coat was JUST like a Pyr's! Thick matted-up undercoat, nice straight water resistant top coat!

Anyway, I pulled out this smaller rake to work through the undercoat mats and strip away the thicker winter coat that was so clumped up to shed. I had the little guy on a newpapered covered coffee table and Blizzard comes in, sits down and makes that low, long grumbling sigh. My husband cracked up. But, after awhile her pride must have  gotten in the way, because she got up and walked off, giving me one last sigh as she looked over her shoulder and went down the hall. Guess she got tired of waiting in line.

I'm very lucky she loves to be brushed so much. She'll just sit there, on the newpaper I place on the floor, and let me brush her. I love gooming dogs. It's so relaxing plus, they look so pretty once you're done.

Oh, and as for blowing coats... I found it so much easyer  to just keep regular grooming. Dosn't seem as bad or as much trouble. Either she dosn't blow that much of her coat, or I've become to used to it that it's nothing and no big deal, now.

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Yes, that's the first thing I've noticed when browsing the websites for pics of pyrs (gotta get my Pyr fix, sometime.lol)


Blizzard is my 5 yr female and I think it all depends on certain things.

Like climate. I noticed other Pyrs who are kept mostly outside, like guard dogs, to have a thicker, more dense undercoat. It then makes the top coat look fuller. Indoor pet Pyrs, if brushed often (wich I know we all do. No one wants white tufts tumbleweed floating down the hallway in the morning.) normally have a thinner, less poofy coat. I think it's due to climate controle. Of course the Pyrs on farms, in the summer, blow huge hunks of coat that can be peeled off and then their coat looks thinner then the indoor pyr's coat.

Males have a heavery coat then females around the neck area, also


But feel of coats? I think that all depends on genetics. I've actually met one female Pyr with wavey hair! I'd never seen that before!

Blizzard's hair, I'd like to think, is average for a Pyr. It's straight, with more around the pant and writhers, and neck. The only cotteny/silker area she has is around the ears. I like to clip that part off, however, so she has more circulation , airwise. Just as a practice to help prevent ear infections (along with cleaning the ears, often). Her top coat feels smooth,  but corse. It's very water resistant and takes allot to get her drenched enough for a bath. The second layer of fur is softer, more dense. She gets groomed, once a week for about an hour, but only bathed once a month. Her hair is easy to clean by just brushing out the dirt. It dosn't cling at all. The bath is more for getting rid of the doggy oder. hehehe


Umm anyway...

I think it just all depends on two things... genetics and invirment. I honestly think invirment has the most impact, however.

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Great Pyrenees Discussions / Re: 7 month old Pyr male
« on: July 11, 2005, 08:16:33 am »
aww, I'm glad he's okay and safe.

He sounds perfect, like what we've been looking for in a theropy dog for our Asperger son.

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