r/greatpyrenees

One week after nearly losing our girl to an Addison’s Disease crisis she is back to her formidable, protective self, even though the doesn’t have pants because the nurses took them 😂

Sahara is about a week from turning 8 months. 50% Pyrenees, other 50% heeler and border collie. She is excellent with not chewing on the things in her bathroom (where she sleeps). She doesn’t touch her bed, our towels, Rupert (her heartbeat toy that was once bigger than her), or anything that’s not on the floor. If I drop underwear or socks on the floor, she quietly steals it to her bed and eats it but if I put them on top of something, even if she can reach; she won’t go for them.
For context; she has routine. She has play dates with her puppy friends (used to be twice a day but now only a few evenings a week. Other times we try to have her play with her reactive older brother but she is not very interested. She has high energy but he has attacked her a few times and she is just very careful around him so she can’t even play and be herself around him. He has no friends so she is the only playmate that will even tolerate him). If her brother is the only dog available to play on a particular day, it’s not enough to satisfy her because she has to dial back her energy. She also has enforced naps twice a day for ~3 hours each. I take them on long sniff walks daily as well. She gets about 3-4 hours of outside time daily.
We are at a loss because she has not only chewed up ALL of her toys (bears, ropes, rubber toys, leather toys, “indestructible toys”) at this point the only thing we haven’t tried is metal toys lol. She not only chews them, she eats them. Luckily we haven’t had obstruction yet and she poops all of them out but I need to know when this phase will end.
We tether her inside the apartment and as of now, she has eaten through all of the leashes and I bought a metallic one.
She doesn’t eat our stuff though, unless she is frustrated (needs to poop, sleep or hungry). It goes in stages; whining, barking, then she moves on to eat the couch, blankets or anything she KNOWS she shouldn’t while making eye contact.
I typically take her out when I know she has to go but sometimes I’m in a meeting or I’ve already taken her 5 minutes ago and she wasted time scanning instead of pooping. We live on a 2nd floor apartment and in this heat it’s really hard to keep taking her out every few minutes. I also have 2 other dogs and it’s exhausting because most of the time they have to be taken out separately.
She can only eat Nyla bones but she loses interest quickly and I’ve read there’s risk of fracturing teeth. We have edible chews/bones but we can’t have them eat these around each other. Older brother is a resource guarder and older sister is a resource thief; both habits might be taught to puppy. The point of toys is that no one guards toys and they can keep them busy while we all hang out together, I don’t want to isolate her with a bone when she’s already away napping the majority of the day.
Please advise on what we should do with her while her siblings have toys in the evenings. And let me know if anyone has experience of this phase ending

Does anyone else's Pyr just not be bothered the vacuum?

Anybody else’s dog go to the weirdest spot to hide during fireworks?

She is a very skittish dog and was going to be euthanized at work, I work at an animal shelter, named her Ragatha because she came in looking like a rag doll. I fell in love with her when I crouched down to pick off ticks and she shiley started to give me little kisses. Now whenever she sees me she gets a small burst of energy. It's so hard to not cry when writing this :c. My stepdad would put me outside at night sometimes and the only thing I had for comfort was my Great Pyrenees. Ever since then I've had a soft spot for these dogs ❤️

We recently adopted 2 great pyrenees puppies both 6 months old, one male (Butterbean) and one female(Coco). My small yorkie mix (Destiny) is 10 years old female.

The male is fine with Destiny as he just ignores her exempt for occasionally sniffing her but if she growls or walks away he doesn’t bother her further. However, the female is relentless. She constantly wants to play with Destiny but she doesn’t reciprocate and will bark and growl at her but Coco won’t stop trying to play with her. They’ve never truly bitten eachother, but Coco has put Destiny’s whole head in her mouth without biting down and has pinned her before we quickly separated them. I would like for them to atleast tolerate being in the general vicinity as I don’t expect them to be best friends.

I suspect Destiny might have been mistreated at her first home (were her third owners, have had her for 8 years) and she is very aggressive towards other dogs and other people she doesn’t know with the exception of older southern women (me too girl).

We don’t want to have to get rid of the other dogs and we just hope to have them able to be around eachother.

Edit: I see now that I’m likely overreacting probably because these are the youngest dogs I’ve ever really adopted as I’m used to older more tired dogs. Thank you all for your words of reassurance.

Made this video to send to my brother…

Found out on Friday he has cancer. Rest in peace yeti. My first and only dog.

She doesn’t listen for shit but I love her so much ❤️ she is a silly baby

We have been dealing with otitis for 5+ years. When i tell you that we have tried everything, I really mean it. Over the counter, prescription, specialty vets, sedated cleanings, CT scans, all of it. The final thing we were about to try was immunotherapy but we may not need to go that route now.

We decided to give a probiotic a try because of a recomendation from a pet store employee. I've been very cautiously optimistic about the results. But, its been a couple of months. I have never seen his ears in better condition then they are today.

I am hoping that this holds up through the fall, as that seems to be the season that we really go into a spiral with infections. But looking at how healthy his ears FINALLY are, I am ecstatic . I get emotional thinking about how relieved this poor guy must feel after all he's been through.

For the person that was me 5 years ago searching the corners of the internet for relief, please give a probiotic a try before you put yourself and your pup what we went through.

Rescue puppy Bors is now the same size as his mentor Buddy.

He handled 4th of July fireworks like a champion and is learning the art of running down steep hills like a badass running behind Buddy.

From scrawny underfed nervous foster to the newest guardian of a farm with a herd of goats, he’s living his best life. I’ll get an official weigh in next week but I believe he’s just shy of 80 lbs.

*She has not, in fact, ever captured a frog, but remains very hopeful.

I gave mine trazadone a little bit ago. The fireworks were becoming non stop, and although his barking doesn’t bother me I have noticed during previous 4ths and NYEs that the constant booming makes mine distressed. He is sleeping peacefully on the couch now.