Re: [PyrNet-L] 6 year old female

["Mitzi Potter" <Pyrs@Prodigy.net>]

On Fri, 20 Nov 1998 12:12:12 EST, Lisatipps@aol.com wrote:

>I just found out about this "pyrnet" last night.  Everyone seems to care a lot
>for these dogs.  Yesterday I met my first one, Alice.  Her owner died not too
>long ago and I'm thinking of adopting her.  At first meeting, she seems to
>come with no serious problems, only a food issue maybe (growling when told to
>go away from the dinner table).  I've been told she has no barking or fence
>jumping problems, although she lives in a 6 foot fence and I only have a
>regular chainlink type.  She's never been trained but she seems mellow so
>maybe that doesn't matter.

The growling is a big issue. She may just be a spoiled dog who was never MADE to mind. 
Try looking in her ears, squeezing her toenails like you're going to give her a nail trim, 
invade her "body space" some and see how she reacts. If she growls or snarls at you when 
you do those sort of things I sure wouldn't take her. Especially if you've never owned a big 
dog before. Growling is NOT acceptable under any circumstances. If you correct her (very 
firmly!) for it and she backs down and doesn't do it again, that's one thing. But if you correct 
her and she growls again at you-let it go and please don't take her. These dogs are just 
too big to put up with any kind of aggressiveness in any way.
And I have found that mine are so mellow that they don't seem to need "active" training like 
my Goldens or Newf. They're so easy-going that they just don't cause problems.
~Mitzi  Potter   
~Pyrs@prodigy.net   Okla City   OK
~http://members.aol.com/fivepyrs/dogsz.htm