Great Pyrenees Dogs: Ten Things You Should Know About These Beautiful White Dogs.
This dog has been used for many thousands of years in the Pyrenees Mountain are of southern France to guard sheep and other livestock. It is a working dog, which is a member the Mastiff family and related to the St. Bernard and Newfoundland. Here are nine more things you may not know about the Great Pyrenees Dog: Around the 17th Century it was introduced to the courts of France, became an official court dog and gained popularity as a guard dog of French Nobles. Armies have even used it, probably as a dog of war and certainly in the Second World War, where it was used to haul artillery over the mountains. Great Pyrenees is also know by other names such as the Pyrenean Mountain Dog, Chien des Pyrenees which means Dog of the Pyrenees or even sometimes known as Chien de Montagne des Pyrenees, a straight translation to English meaning Dog of Mountain of the Pyrenees. Like the St. Bernard and Newfoundland, the dogs are medium to giant size and very strong with a muscular body, long course hair and are white in colour but sometimes being slightly tan with a little grey. The dog is not really suitable as a family pet as they require lots of space and firm control. More of a working dog, trainable, quick to learn and intelligent but they have a mind of their own and if they don’t want to do something they will not do it! If they ever were used as a dog of war, any viciousness has now been bred out of them. They are very loyal to their owners and family and very protective. They can be wary of strangers but are in general quite, loving and tolerant dogs. If you live in bear country then this is the dog to have, for it is said it will hold off bear long enough for a Shepherd to move his flock or indeed a family to move to safety. As said, these are big dogs, the height of a male ranging from 27 to 32 inches (0.7 to 0.8 metres) and a female little smaller at between 25 to 29 inches (0.6 to 0.75 metres). A fully-grown dog will weigh 100 pounds (45 Kilograms) and a bitch around 85 pounds (38 Kilograms). In temperament the dogs are well mannered, calm, confident, a little reserved and yet attentive. They are affectionate and gentle to family members but the male can be aggressive with other animals and of course extremely protective of its flock and family. If you are thinking of owning such a dog then a word of caution, these dogs fall into the category of ‘livestock guarding dogs’, LGDs for short and this can make them less than ideal as an urban or sub-urban dog.
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