Rain, Sweet Rain - Livestock Guardian Dogs

After the dry squeeze in southern MN, we were relieved with all the rain.  We had been holding back some paddocks, now a tad overgrown, to make sure we had enough fresh forage for the flerd.  We will now be able to more aggressively move forward in our paddocks.  

Ever since we moved out of Highland cattle, we have found a need to add livestock guardian dogs.  There’s been a learning curve for us in raising them, and we are focused on acclimating them to our set-up.  We added a new dog this week, a male named Bob, so we can produce our own dogs in the future.  We feed our dogs ground trim meat from our butchered steers, so they have no reason to want to leave, but the big dog, Puppers, likes to run if she gets scared.   To keep her from running far, we tied her to a post pounder, a tip we learned from watching Greg Judy vids.  We’d love to hear any advice you have on keeping livestock guardian dogs.