[pyrnet] Re:Q

["Larry Watts" <lswatts@starband.net>]

I have some questions about the Great Pyrenees guarding instinct in
relationship to their tendancy to roam.
It has always bothered me that our gurad dog when given the opportunity,
will stop guarding our family and go roaming. Do they think they are
guarding  a larger area? Does anyone have any insight into this?

I also have a question for those pyrenees owners living in hot climates.

What do you do about their fur? On country property it is hard to keep the
fur from matting and when it does it doesn't breathe for them. We've trimmed
our dog and they seemed much happier- we just made sure it wasn't so short
that they could get sunburned.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Julie Johnston" <raven4luck@home.com>
To: <pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 12:22 AM
Subject: Re: [pyrnet] chronic diarrhea


> Hi all -
>
> It's nice (in a sick way) to know other Pyrs have been suffering with
> chronic diarrhea.  A few weeks after I got Emily, she began to have
diarrhea
> and some vomiting problems.  I took her into the vet where she was
diagnosed
> ($218 worth of tests) with Giardia.  She was treated for that and did fine
> for a few weeks when it started again.  The vet had said that the giardia
> might return so I took in another stool sample.  This time it wasn't
giardia
> but an overgrowth of bacteria that was causing the problem.  I was feeding
> her Canidae the entire time.  Just last weekend she started having
diarrhea
> and vomiting again.  Larger dog, larger puddle of diarrhea in the house
too
> with a lot of it on the sheepskin rug.  )-:  I called the vet and got an
ok
> on immodium before her appt.  Saturday she vomited outside and I went to
> examine the contents.  It was mainly food with a WORM on top.  =:-0  In
> another vomit spell, I found another worm.  Yuck.  I saved the worm, a
> roundworm, and took both it and another stool sample into the vet.  She
was
> diagnosed with roundworms (lots of them) and given medication just today.
I
> asked why the worms didn't show up on the previous 3 stool samples and he
> didn't have any answers.  It just seems like she has a few weeks of "soft
> formed stools" and then back to the soft or liquid stuff.   Tomorrow or
the
> next day I'll have pleasure of cleaning up the expelled and hopefully dead
> adult worms.  Good thing I'm a nurse and have cleaned up every bodily
> excrement.  I can't say I've even cleaned up wormy poop though.  I've been
> told that Canidae is a good food and it does have human grade ingredients.
> The vet says it isn't the food but could be the stress of the dog.  She
> seems content in every way - plays, eats, naps, is spoiled, etc just like
> the others and everyone gets along fine.  Perhaps there is a weak genetic
> gene in Pyrenees intestines somehow?  Anyway, it's nice to know I'm not
the
> only one cleaning up diarrhea and vomitus these days.
>
> Julie
>
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