Phoebe in her element - Snow!

We had a pretty good sized snow storm over the weekend. Although we didn't even close to what they were predicting. Its hard to tell exactly how much snow fell, I would guess somewhere between 14-18" total. With the way the wind was blowing and drifting the snow it is hard to tell. Of course none of this bothered Phoebe. If we had let her she would have just stayed outside through the whole storm. A Pyr in her favorite element!

A little camera shy

You call this deep? Well not at that spot, maybe 6-8" where she is standing.

That is a rather large tongue. A bribery shot if I ever saw one.

A Dog's Life

Phoebe about six months. Classic Pyrenees helmet head

Lani (Khalani) asking when Phoebe is going back

Phoebe claiming the loveseat as her own. About 10 months old, still has the fuzzy puppy ears

Phoebe a 14 months, quite the ham. About as tall as she will get, but will start filling out now, is still that rangy young dog.

Phoebe on rabbit watch. Stands about 5'6" now.

Lani in isolation (caught in the act here, that bench was up against the wall), trying to show remorse.

And the breakout, that bench weighs about 70# she forced it back from the wall with her muzzle

Watching for squirrels. Lani stands a bit taller than Phoebe in this picture, but Phoebe has now passed her up a bit.

New Addition to the Family

We made the plunge and acquired a used puppy over the weekend. We have an older dog, Hobbes, who is not doing well. So obviously the best thing to cheer Hobbes up is a sweet young puppy to mentor.

Phoebe, 4 months, Great Pyrenees

We called the Pyrescue, where 4 out of 5 of the Pyrs have come from, and they did, fortuitously, have a stray puppy that had just arrived from somewhere in MO. We grabbed two of the other dogs, Hobbes can't really travel at this point, and traveled down to Peyton CO to make a visit.

Everyone managed to get along so we headed home with three dogs in the Jeep, so it was a bit crowded (fortunately we had elected to take one of the JK unlimited jeeps and not the red two door TJ).

Phoebe is about 4 months old, and is just starting to lose her puppy fur, so she is still very fluffy. You can see her adult coat starting to come in on her back. She is a very laid back puppy, but quickly managed to claim all the dog toys in the house as her's.

The rest of the clan

A younger picture of Hobbes, now somewhere between 10 and 13, Great Pyrenees

Sadie 8 years (and my son's dog so a frequent visitor), Catahoula Hound/Australian Heeler mix

Peyton, 5 years old, Flatcoat Retriever/Border Collie mix

Kahlani (Lani), 2 years old, Great Pyrenees/Anatolian Shepherd mix
She's a big girl too pushing 120# now.

Those that have come before

Porthos, Nov 1996 - Nov 2008, Great Pyrenees

Babe, July 1996 - June 2008, Great Pyrenees

The pair together, almost inseparable.

And Larry

Larry in the middle of the bed, Lani looking forlorn

Okay fine, you can have the bed if I can have a corner

Hobbs and Sadie

Hobbs is settling in quite nicely and gets along well with Sadie and ignores the cats. All in all that works out quite well. The cats scatter when they see him, but he really could care less what they do. Eventually one of them will figure out that he has a really soft coat and provides an excellent napping spot. Its been cold and snowy here lately which means he would rather be outside! Sadie, on the other hand, would much rather be inside when its cold.

A rawhide bone and a bed, what more could a dog want?

I still can't believe you are letting him stay!

New Family Member

Both of my Great Pyrenees passed away in 2008 within about 5 months of each other. They were 12 years old which is definitely on the high side for the breed. My oldest son has his own dog, Sadie, and its nice to have her around the house but she's not my dog. I have been haunting the various Pyr rescue sites off an on since 2008 and a couple of weeks ago I found one that really spoke to me. A requirement by the rescue is that you need to bring any dogs living in the house down to visit first to make sure that everyone will get along. Well, this certainly made me a little nervous since Sadie doesn't really like other dogs. She had arrived in the house just before my second Pyr (Porthos) passed away. I remember her coming into the house very excited and still on the leash when Porthos came lumbering around the corner, she practically levitated into my son's arms, I swear there was no jumping involved.

I drove down with Sadie and was waiting at the house, I had managed to beat the caregiver there. Up on the balcony was this huge Pyr just looking down at us, easily the biggest Pyr I had ever seen. Sadie seemed totally unfazed, even when the current pack of Pyrs gathered at the fence to bark at us (its what they do) she didn't care. When the caregiver got back with the current rescue we went into the "greeting" enclosure and they brought the Pyr they were calling Boregard, Sadie went nose to nose with him and didn't have any problem, he didn't have a problem with her so it was off to the races!

Boregard is now Hobbs and seems to be settling in nicely. He's still a little nervous about some things but he seems to be starting to accept that this is home now. Its nice to have a dog of my own again.

Whatdya mean another dog? I'm not enough?
Sadie is a mix; half Catahoula Hound and we think Blue Heeler.
You can't see it in the picture but her eyes are an icy blue
and the left one is marbled with brown.

Okay, I'm here. Do I get to stay?
Despite the apparent blue eye color he has the standard,
Pyrenees brown eyes and is look a bit sad at the moment.
He is not pure white, he has a mix of wolf and tan markings.

Dibs on the couch!