Badger [rescue Great Pyrenees' - 2000]

  
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Badger's coat shows the signs of the brush the sheep are grazing down. Lots of seed burrs stick to his coat. I comb many of them out every day and he finds more to replace them in this FALL of 2001 photo .



Badger is grumbling at #52 telling him to stay away from the feed bucket! Ole #52, a pet wether, is generally a pest to the LGD's.



Badger & Lilly on a nice Fall morning in 2003 . That's Ole #52 beside them.




He leaves the barn in February 2005 amid the mud and isn't too happy about it. ...Messing up his beautiful Pyrenees coat.



Badger really likes to take his food to the sheep, then eat. I used to set out a pail. He would pick it up and carry it, deftly. However, Abbey would go and see it later then toss it in the river to hide it. It got quite expensive considering two-gallon Forteflex pails are about 5 or 6 US dollars. So, Mary suggested what we all call "Brown Bagging" it. So, here's a picture of Badger taking his kibble back out to the sheep in a brown paper bag. The paper is biodegradable and vanishes in the fields.



2007 early Spring and Here's badger again, grabbing morning breakfast and taking it out to the sheep where he will lay down and quietly eat it all.




However, They knew rain was approaching and just didn't really to move out.

Badger takes his breakfast-bag and TRIES to get his sheep to move into the field on a cold February 2008 morning. He's having troubles getting them to move.



Finally they start to amble around and a slim few start following him. in thirty minutes it began to rain heavily.

Badger again heads out. He turns to try and get them to follow.



Mid February 2009. Bagari is protecting Badger as he tries desperately to recover from an attack made by by as yet an unknown member of the Lair here..  Badger has some puncture wounds on his head.

Late January 2009 and it's snowing.  Badger got his bag of food up in the sheep barn. He decided to take it outside. You have to love the quality of the LGD's who are bred by those who don't mess with the old standards form thousands of years ago.




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I've sprayed BetaDyne on the area after I clipped the fur back a little ... thus the uglier color.



And the next day, I am seeing Badger, once again, taking to the high-ground for good observation.

couple days later and Badger has been checking himself in to the X-Pen towards evening.  If I see he's done this, then I bring him some extra goodies and lock his gate ... forcing him to have to rest over night.  Anyway, it's raining, windy and chilly and I felt he'd be better off resting.  What   I noticed though is that good old Bagari is making sure he is comforted and safe.  There she is again laying in a guarding position so he can rest ... and as I can see, he understood this.




First week of April '09 and though warming, the leaves in the forest have not made themselves seen. I was about a quarter-mile away and had the feeling "someone" was watching me. This Telephoto shot proves I was right for badger had me in his "cross-hairs" .

So, this afternoon,  a heavy Tornado warning pops up as well as 60 MPH winds ... Badger seems to be feeling better and I see he's placed himself in the DogLoo which is in the barn.  The guy knows where to hang out in severe storms.





...Well, hopefully a reorganization will allow this keen, old, friend to regain confidence as well as live out his remaining years in safety. This being, what I count, his 5th attack, and by far the worst.

By Late July '09,  Badger has had three more dealings with some unkind pack member. I did not see which one did this.  However, I have reassigned all of them. In all Badger's years here, I have not ever seen him act in the least bit aggressive towards any LGD member, Rescue or otherwise. It would seem to me that ancient requirements for actual working LGD's would logically require they get along with the LGD's that the "master" obviously considers part of the Pack.





...we need more pictures of Badger,  don't we? This is Tooka, my favorite wild mustang of all time. ... a few years ago. 

Fall of 2009,  Badger is running the upper area now that I have had Bagari out of his paddock for several months.  He was lying in a pile of hay,  surrounded by some sheep on a 50 degree afternoon in early November. Badger is something else. He sees me walking along a path and gets up to walk over for an ear-rubbing. Agrippa sees the opening and takes the prime real-estate quickly. Uh,  that's the extra tail in the picture.  If you are new to this,  then just do yourself a favour and get a Great Pyrenees first and add other breeds later.  The fact that the sheep are hanging out where Badger, the GP, is should be all that need be said about the Great Pyrenees. Hey ... not that the other breeds don't guard the livestock ... they do ... However, when I sneak yup and see who the livestock hangs out with, I make a mental note.





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