I don't get the baboon thing at all...I think Masha is just adorable. I had never given a thought to this breed prior to meeting those two, now I wonder...
Lindsay - Her ears were cropped at 4 days old. We wanted to not have them cropped but that would have greatly reduced our temperament selection since you can't really tell their temperament at 4 days old.
Brandon - I love that pic too - it looks tough, but really she is just barking at Loa because she wanted to chew on her stick. lol. Last time we weighed her she was just under 30lb.
Jen - She has already started her "job", she is out there anytime Luytiy is out [assuming it is not too cold for a puppy]. She is a sharp little thing, she will bark at people passing or dogs on the other side of the fence, she has a pretty amazing bark for a pup. We take her to Santa Fe every Saturday for a puppy socialization class [which she is AMAZING in]... after the class we took her into a pet store. She did great and met a bunch of dogs and people, then she met this boxer mix that got very snarky with her and she switched from mellow little puppy to demon child in the blink of an eye! The boxer mix didn't know what hit him [the sounds she made, she didn't touch him]. He stopped being snarky and cowered behind his mom. Pretty amazing considering she is only [just under] 4 months old!
Dave - I get what you mean, she does look a bit like a monkey at times. She also looks like a little bear, and a bit like a Kangal puppy right now - sometimes even a Malinois. She's all funny looking right now. lol.
She's a puppy! They're supposed to be funny looking! lol They're also supposed to be great little creatures that can make you happy instantly just by looking at them.
Melissa - We hope her face will lighten up to reveal a mask. Her body should get darker and richer in red as well. So even if her face stays black it will, at the very least, blend more with her body. [I am not really a fan of the fawn body and black face]
This is Masha's mom, she should look similar to her [tho her dad was very dark so she may be darker than this]:
Masha is adorable! I don't know if there is a furry stuffed animal thing out there that looks like her, but if so I think every young child on the planet would love one (and maybe some grown-up kids, too!)... Sounds like she is smart as a whip, too! Thanks for sharing the pics as she grows up!
Yea, Kona is so funny. He just goes and picks out a piece of wood from the pile [he will spend minutes looking for the right piece] and then he takes it to his bed or Maui's ledge and just chews on it. It's pretty cute - until Loa or Masha decide they want it.
Yes, Masha is a little firecracker, she has a big personality. She's pretty sweet tho. )
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Today some roaming dogs passed between my neighbor's house and our house, I couldn't get to the cam in time to get footage of the dogs or Luytiy's full-on "display" but I did get catch the end of it:
Love these two videos --- I can tell all the doggies missed Luytiy big time --- that's so cute how they welcome him back --- and he just lets them roll him over and gnaw on his leg... then there's Kona all relaxed, just "...chewing on a piece of..." wood. Funny! Josephine loves to chew on wood, too --- she will chew on rawhide some of the time, but I think if she had a choice she'd pick the wood every time. Could be some sort of genetic "throwback" to those Japanese mountain forests???
Masha is such a cutie, especially in the second video when she chimes in with her "big brother"... And Kona just seems to go with the flow of that guarding thing, but I'm hearing no barks out of him now. Has he gotten a bit quieter for you now? I love how Luytiy keeps making the circle to check and make sure everyone's OK and then goes back to the fence to warn those vagrant doggies!
Thanks for sharing the videos, Brad... What a beautiful group of doggies you have!
Windy day, huh? Luytiy seems to be doing his job very well! And Masha is learning. How sweet. Q. When you say roaming dogs, are they your neighbor's dogs or strays?
Brandon - I agree, it is neat to see him work... I think he still has a lot of learning to do tho, he needs to have a better understand what is a REAL threat and what is just something to keep an eye on.
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Bev - Kona has slowed with the barking a lot, especially since Luytiy is on the job. He seems to just yield to Luytiy, occasionally tho, Kona will sound the alarm. I think it's neat how, in the video, Luytiy is constantly circling and checking on the pups too, he even runs inside to check in with Jen. In the video I think it's cool how he goes and sniffs the air at the gate too.
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Osy - I dunno the answer to that, my theory is that it's because they hold their tail over their back [and therefore out of harms way]. Most of the breeds that get their tails docked have a rather strait tail. Also, they use their tail as a rudder when running fast, I have noticed Masha doing this a lot since she is not as sure footed yet... so I would imagine it would hurt their ability to maneuver if they docked their tail.
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Barbara - Yes, it was VERY windy [and cold]!
Not sure if they where neighborhood dogs or not. There was 5 of them, looked like Labs mixes, Pit mixes, and one Cattle Dog mix. There are a lot of people in this area who believe dogs should be free, so they were likely neighborhood dogs... but they could have been strays from the Indian land as well. I am honestly more concerned with the neighborhood dogs as they are ones that tend to charge us and show aggression since they are protecting their [perceived] property.
The lady that lives next to us has a fearful [and borderline aggressive] dog she just lets roam, he charges us all the time and shows lots of aggression towards our dogs... he will even just sit at the fence and challenge our dogs. Our dogs HATE him. When she is outside with him and we are walking our dogs he will charge us and we have to pickup Ahi and Kona because they want to kill him [Ahi and Kona get so agitated they will turn on each other too]... she is always like "he wont hurt you or them, he's not aggressive". Yea right! He has charged us at least once a week since we moved here, even going as far as nipping my leg when I turned to walkaway from him. It's frustrating because she doesn't get the point - we are not worried about him hurting our dogs, we are worried about our dogs hurting him. There is just so much pent-up anxiety there since he kinda torments them through the fence. One day he will get it, and it will be bad.
When Luytiy got out, he went over to my neighbors [the nice ones] and said "hi" to their lab [no harm done], but then he saw "Hersey" [the other neighbor's dog]... you could almost see what went through his head "Oh, you, I remember you... you little sh!t... You better start running!"... That was the moment I tackled L and we got him back on leash. THAT was a close one and THAT is why we have an 8' fence now.
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Brandon - I love that pic too - it looks tough, but really she is just barking at Loa because she wanted to chew on her stick. lol. Last time we weighed her she was just under 30lb.
Jen - She has already started her "job", she is out there anytime Luytiy is out [assuming it is not too cold for a puppy]. She is a sharp little thing, she will bark at people passing or dogs on the other side of the fence, she has a pretty amazing bark for a pup. We take her to Santa Fe every Saturday for a puppy socialization class [which she is AMAZING in]... after the class we took her into a pet store. She did great and met a bunch of dogs and people, then she met this boxer mix that got very snarky with her and she switched from mellow little puppy to demon child in the blink of an eye! The boxer mix didn't know what hit him [the sounds she made, she didn't touch him]. He stopped being snarky and cowered behind his mom. Pretty amazing considering she is only [just under] 4 months old!
Dave - I get what you mean, she does look a bit like a monkey at times. She also looks like a little bear, and a bit like a Kangal puppy right now - sometimes even a Malinois. She's all funny looking right now. lol.
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They're also supposed to be great little creatures that can make you happy instantly just by looking at them.
Is her face going to get much lighter??
This is Masha's mom, she should look similar to her [tho her dad was very dark so she may be darker than this]:
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Wow, still a puppy but gigantic!
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Today some roaming dogs passed between my neighbor's house and our house, I couldn't get to the cam in time to get footage of the dogs or Luytiy's full-on "display" but I did get catch the end of it:
*Note little Masha gets in on it too.
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Masha is such a cutie, especially in the second video when she chimes in with her "big brother"... And Kona just seems to go with the flow of that guarding thing, but I'm hearing no barks out of him now. Has he gotten a bit quieter for you now? I love how Luytiy keeps making the circle to check and make sure everyone's OK and then goes back to the fence to warn those vagrant doggies!
Thanks for sharing the videos, Brad... What a beautiful group of doggies you have!
Hey Brad, out of curiosity, why do they dock the ears but not the tail? ~
Q. When you say roaming dogs, are they your neighbor's dogs or strays?
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Bev - Kona has slowed with the barking a lot, especially since Luytiy is on the job. He seems to just yield to Luytiy, occasionally tho, Kona will sound the alarm. I think it's neat how, in the video, Luytiy is constantly circling and checking on the pups too, he even runs inside to check in with Jen. In the video I think it's cool how he goes and sniffs the air at the gate too.
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Osy - I dunno the answer to that, my theory is that it's because they hold their tail over their back [and therefore out of harms way]. Most of the breeds that get their tails docked have a rather strait tail. Also, they use their tail as a rudder when running fast, I have noticed Masha doing this a lot since she is not as sure footed yet... so I would imagine it would hurt their ability to maneuver if they docked their tail.
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Barbara - Yes, it was VERY windy [and cold]!
Not sure if they where neighborhood dogs or not. There was 5 of them, looked like Labs mixes, Pit mixes, and one Cattle Dog mix. There are a lot of people in this area who believe dogs should be free, so they were likely neighborhood dogs... but they could have been strays from the Indian land as well. I am honestly more concerned with the neighborhood dogs as they are ones that tend to charge us and show aggression since they are protecting their [perceived] property.
The lady that lives next to us has a fearful [and borderline aggressive] dog she just lets roam, he charges us all the time and shows lots of aggression towards our dogs... he will even just sit at the fence and challenge our dogs. Our dogs HATE him. When she is outside with him and we are walking our dogs he will charge us and we have to pickup Ahi and Kona because they want to kill him [Ahi and Kona get so agitated they will turn on each other too]... she is always like "he wont hurt you or them, he's not aggressive". Yea right! He has charged us at least once a week since we moved here, even going as far as nipping my leg when I turned to walkaway from him. It's frustrating because she doesn't get the point - we are not worried about him hurting our dogs, we are worried about our dogs hurting him. There is just so much pent-up anxiety there since he kinda torments them through the fence. One day he will get it, and it will be bad.
When Luytiy got out, he went over to my neighbors [the nice ones] and said "hi" to their lab [no harm done], but then he saw "Hersey" [the other neighbor's dog]... you could almost see what went through his head "Oh, you, I remember you... you little sh!t... You better start running!"... That was the moment I tackled L and we got him back on leash. THAT was a close one and THAT is why we have an 8' fence now.
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