Agrippa

Agrippa [2005 Kuvasz]

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  Dec '10 --> Jul '11

Agrippa, Son Of Bandit, on Christmas Day of 2010.  It's about 20 warm degrees and there he is with Fiona, Donkey! and my Wild Mustang Queeup. Thus very trait,  remaining with or wonderfully near,  the Livestock is a wonderful trait I have witnessed over the years of my all time favorite breed, Kuvasz ! Not a thing is going to harm those equines at this moment with Agrippa laying there.  For those of us/you who have been here and seen his father,  Bandit,  don't you see that intense stare of his farther in Agrippa's eyes?


You may have already seen this picture,  however I just had to put it beside the Christmas 2010 picture to the right of Agrippa to show how he's kept his trait of hanging out with the horses and Burros. 




What I love about Kuvasz

About 15 minutes later,  Agrippa lets out a bark in this direction. I see him sniff the air and look around. He winds up at my fence-post site and gives it the third; inspects me then ....


85 degree July 2011 afternoon. I am continuing repairs to fencing and the poor job the Hamm Construction did. I'm setting railroad-ties as high-cattle-pressure fencing in a 'chute' which leads to the field.  This was supposed to be on the other side of the pond over there but Hamm, we find out later, is noted for not following directions and abruptly finishing. Anyway, I feel like I am being watched. I look around and spot Agrippa, son of the "Bandit" Kuvasz from Anja in Germany. When Bandit was alive, I could count on him being somewhere so as to keep track of me.  Agrippa has, for a few years now, followed in the same tradition. Bear did the same as did Bailey and Capella, all Kuvasz. At the moment, Bagari, an Ovcharka, is in the Grain Room and on the cool cement floor along with Cato. Cato favors his mom, Lilly in looks and traits whereas Agrippa is a spittin' image of Bandit.




I come back for another railroad-tie and notice Agrippa has returned to the shade of the cattle-working chute area ... and,  yes, as ever, he still has eyes on me. I love this trait that the Kuvasz has .. or at least a couple of lines of them which i have dealt with over the years. Given a mile of pasture there and also shady barns, the Kuvasz makes the choice to watch everything around "Boss" .. or at least, mine do; or mine like me. Many I have seen write that theirs are "Loyal". What I have seen though is that, those that I have read, have little other place for their LGD to go. So, "Duh", the LGD stays near them. Given the chance, theirs would leave. I maintain most other breeds would leave .... given .... the ... space ... the Kuvasz I have been associated with, in this working environment, simply keep track of all of it and at least one Kuvasz, of many, will always be assigned to me. How they make the decision I do not  know. Later on Leroy took it over.


...... he heads out to the field to inspect the calf-creep-feeder and mineral-holder. Both are on sled-runners and are easily moved by the tractor. The cattle are in the next field and when I'm finished with this I'll move those feeders and bush-hog the iron-weed which no one eats .. it's an Annual nuisance






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