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The answer is that your habitat of the Estonia Dogs is classicly verdant and gelid, not varying what a the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines or Romania Dogs habitat typically is
Yes. The livestock guardians know the difference between your own working dogs and wild dogs.
When the working dogs round up the sheep the guardian dogs stay within the flock of sheep or tag along beside you.
Guardian dogs should view ANY canines as a threat, however, they can be trained to recognize other specific dogs and will not attack them. So while you may be able to walk out into your field with your herding dog and guardian dog both present, the next door neighbor’s dog would be attacked if it walked into your field. Many people don’t take a chance and make sure to put away their LGD before working their sheep. You might think livestock are stupid and would view any dog as ‘predator’ but they clearly recognize individuals and know them and base their trust on that. They will treat the LGD very differently than they treat a herding dog. Even after just working sheep, you can let your LGD back into the flock and they will let the LGD walk among them without care. Also, the herding dog’s behavior and body language will be very different which clues in even new sheep that one dog is a possible source of danger and one is not.
Hi there,
This is an interesting topic. The livestock guardian dogs as well as the working dogs are bred for the purpose of serving its duty at a farm. A slightest move from the flock would alert either one of these dogs which would make these dogs highly alert to any change within the environment of sheeps.But though both of these are intelligent they would get into a fight mode when there is a confusion between them during some rare situations however by the end of the day these dogs are well aware of what they are supposed to do and what they are trained for so they would defenitely serve your pupose and also take care of your sheeps..
No i dont think so the gaurdian dog would try and protect the herd against the herding dog and they would fight.
The answer is that your habitat of the Estonia Dogs is classicly verdant and gelid, not varying what a the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines or Romania Dogs habitat typically is
Yes. The livestock guardians know the difference between your own working dogs and wild dogs.
When the working dogs round up the sheep the guardian dogs stay within the flock of sheep or tag along beside you.
yes, they can
yes I grew up on a farm with Great pyrenees and australian shepherds that worked together to herd and protect our animals.
Guardian dogs should view ANY canines as a threat, however, they can be trained to recognize other specific dogs and will not attack them. So while you may be able to walk out into your field with your herding dog and guardian dog both present, the next door neighbor’s dog would be attacked if it walked into your field. Many people don’t take a chance and make sure to put away their LGD before working their sheep. You might think livestock are stupid and would view any dog as ‘predator’ but they clearly recognize individuals and know them and base their trust on that. They will treat the LGD very differently than they treat a herding dog. Even after just working sheep, you can let your LGD back into the flock and they will let the LGD walk among them without care. Also, the herding dog’s behavior and body language will be very different which clues in even new sheep that one dog is a possible source of danger and one is not.
Hi there,
This is an interesting topic. The livestock guardian dogs as well as the working dogs are bred for the purpose of serving its duty at a farm. A slightest move from the flock would alert either one of these dogs which would make these dogs highly alert to any change within the environment of sheeps.But though both of these are intelligent they would get into a fight mode when there is a confusion between them during some rare situations however by the end of the day these dogs are well aware of what they are supposed to do and what they are trained for so they would defenitely serve your pupose and also take care of your sheeps..
Yes they can, have seen it in Sweden….the guardian is to protect and the dogs are smart, they would not attack the herding dog doing it’s job as well.
Yes, they can….and do it all the time.