Half Great Pyrenees half German Shepard , just curious on size …. He seems massive for only close to 10 weeks ….

I know that GPs get in all sorts of strange positions - but Peanut has started to sleep on the landing of the stairs. Sort of odd when we have plenty of larger and more comfy places. Is this normal?

Looking for advice on surgery outcomes. My male 3yo GP has been having a time of it. See below for overview of surgery history. But we are in between a titanium patellar groove replacement or a full knee replacement. Looking for anyone with experience, and success, with either of these options.

• April 2023 we had surgery on his right back knee to correct a luxating patella (stage 3). He ended up tearing internal stitches and went for a correction within a month. This second operations resulted in an insuring MSRA infection that required a third surgery to remove all initial surgery stitches etc.
• worked to heal from the infection. Notable muscle atrophy, decrease use of leg and a large bursa.
• Dec 2024. He had a TPLO and corrective surgery on the knee groove. The TPLo had healed well (yay) but the knee cap is still moving. The surgeon believes between the cartilage degradation from the infection and physiology the patellar groove is too compromised.

So I got Angel almost three years ago as a puppy and a rescue and it seemed like she had separation anxiety since day 1. Through years of training she’s massively improved but plateaued about a year ago to the point where she always barks for about 20 minutes exactly every time I leave the apartment. Has anyone else had issues like this and if so how did you solve them?

More info: she is crate trained and loves her crate even sleeping in it at points during the day. I don’t make a show of leaving or coming home and we walk on average about 3 miles a day. I’ll list everything I’ve tried to quell it below and its results.

• our actual training: put her in crate, leave, only come back in when silent for random intervals and reward. This method got her down from barking the whole time I’m gone, to an hour, and now down to the 20 minutes that’s she’s stuck at and I can’t figure out.

• longer walks to wear her out before leaving: seemingly doesn’t work

• frozen Kongs, puzzle toys and the like: the puzzles don’t seem to wear her out either, and the kong she doesn’t touch until I’m home and she out of the crate

• cbd treats: just caused her to bark more, she doesn’t like the feeling of being altered I guess

• anti-anxiety medication from the vet: same result as the cbd treats

• I also refuse to use a shock collar

I ask because I miss going to the gym or seeing family for a few hours without having to worry about false noise complaints (the funniest of which was a neighbor that called and said my dog had been barking for hours when both my dog and I were in a completely different state). Also picture tax is included.

Does anyone else’s pyr sleep so heavily that their breath is super shallow, eyes open, and you have to shake the bejeezus out of them? Seriously thought my girl was dead, wrecked me for the rest of the day. Right now she is looking at me with her one singular brain cell, tongue out wagging like an idiot, wondering why her mother is crying.

She is 2.5 years old and we have been to the vet 4 times in 2 months for skin condition issues so I am extra paranoid.

When I wake him up too early and he just snuggles back into the blankets.

Hi everyone. Meet Lily, our three month old addition to our family. She is already 1/3 the size of her big brother who is a golden retriever x husky.

We have two giant great pyrs. Our girl likes to wonder so we have seatbelts for both of them. But we’re trying to find something to cover the seats. One car is a Kia Soul and the other is a Toyota Camry.

We had a great reactive dog experience yesterday at dog class, he moved up to bronze class and there were two dogs that were reactive a boxer and a collie but the collie was reacting to the boxer and I'm sure the boxer was reacting to all the dogs as was evident by his reaction to every dog he came near.

Yeti has met one dog when he was 14ish weeks who went to attack us (I had to whip it repeatedly with a heavy weight lead till it's owner finally recalled it!), saw his sister go into middle, that I was calm and could protect them. So I don't know if this is why he was unfazed by the dogs reacting but I think having two dogs that have a little fear aggression is absolutely brilliant for him because he won't always come across friendly dogs and hopefully this will teach him to not protect at the first sign of a dog being unstable?

When we left I was impressed that yeti was alert to what was happening but showed no guarding or fear aggression my baby boy makes me so proud and he is so comfortable in every environment!

On the left is our three-quarter great Pyrenees 1/4 Anatolian shepherd mix and on the right is our three month old. Great Pyrenees in boxer mix. They are getting along great!

Hey Pyr people,

Our sweet Fiona is 4 years old, but we just rescued her in December. She’s super friendly with both dogs and people and is usually a really gentle girl, but every now and then she gets her silly romping zoomies, especially at the dog park, which is usually great! The problem is when she gets too excited, she nips at ankles and/or arms (thought that was a herding breed thing, but alas….). It’s clearly play, but still. She ran to me today at the park and did it, and she definitely doesn’t realize how strong she is. I said “no” and kind of pushed her away, and she settled down a moment later. However, I’m not sure she really settled down because of the command. I think it was more coincidental. Haha.

Do any of you have Pyrs that do this? How did you get them to stop? My main concern is that she’s gotten excited like this with strangers a few times. She’s totally happy and friendly in the moment, but she’s too big to show it this way. The last thing we want is anyone getting hurt or Fiona getting put in danger because she “bites” someone accidentally.

Thanks!