#pyrshep

[theartdaleterrier]

Pyrenean Shepherd. This was an exercise in ink, mostly, that I think turned out alright!

[herdingdognerd]

If anyone is looking for their next amazing sports prospect, Salem has a litter mate available! These puppies are absolutely fantastic little companions and sports partners so far, from a top quality pairing and have older full siblings doing some really great stuff!

If you want more details please message me and I can give you more info.

[briardru]

Fleurette du Champ d'Onix, berger des Pyréneés, 14 y.o. June of 2014. The White Sea.

[fjordfolk]

Hi 💙 This is @release-the-hound . Tumblr killed my dog blog and I don't know why. I sent a support ticket but in case I don't get it back, I was wondering if you or your followers had any ideas for a new blog title. Thanks ✌️

Some of my current ideas:

hava-nice-day, havanese-head-office, havanese-headquarters, smalldog-pawpaganda

hey tumblr what the fuck

[bas-rouge]

Realising I've met every AKC herding breed EXCEPT:

Spanish Water Dog, Polish Lowland Sheepdog, Bergamasco, Lancashire Heeler, and Briard.

I've seen Lancashires and Briards on several occasions, but never met one. The other three? Literally never even seen in person.

[firelightfoxes]

fwiw, speaking as someone who is not in Mudis, who missed your critical OP, and who then had to backtrack to figure out what pissed off your anon so bad and check? and, on top of that, someone who is not young, and who knows exactly what toxic shit can swirl in dog breed communities?

you're totally being reasonable there. everything in my networks I've heard about Mudis--not just from you or even from the Internet--tells me I would want to be even more careful selecting a dog based on temperament than I am with my ACDs. I don't know that conformation would be my first choice for testing a more solid temperament, but the reasons you list for looking for it are sound and it's hard to think of another activity in which dogs are asked to tolerate a stranger touching them without having to actively enjoy it (e.g. therapy work). Your anon there is actually making the breed community look way the fuck worse than your initial OP comment.

It always looks worse to badmouth someone who is making reasonable comments about problems in their home breed than it does to be the person making those critical comments in the first place. and I say this coming out of cattle dogs, which have their own nasty temperament issues (including fearfulness combined with herder mouthy == badbad) that made me very careful about picking a breeder for my dog. especially for a breed that is currently in a bit of a sport-person spotlight (like PyrSheps, koolies, kelpies, ACDs, etc before them), it's extremely important to talk about known issues in breed temperament so that people are well informed ahead of time. you want people to pick the dogs knowing full well what they're getting in for and what to look out for. transparency is a sign of a good breed community, and argument about how to achieve given goals is normal and reasonable.

anyway, good luck with Lichen! little bitey pointy dogs are great fun, and I hope you're continuing to enjoy the crap out of yours.

these are great points!! i really appreciate you sharing your perspective :) the other thing is like, if they disagreed with me they could've just started a conversation with me and i would've been happy to hear them out if they wanted to share their opinions, instead of being rude.

they're right that i am young and relatively inexperienced with the breed. but i'm also extremely dedicated to learning and i'm active in the community. if i'm wrong about things, i need to know so that i can learn and grow!

but yeah, thank you!! i love Lichen so much and she's made me want to be involved in mudis forever. <3

[spottys-rathole]

Updated ref

Every single design I've made throughout the years

And a bonus devious smiles collection

Hello Tumblr, say hi to Nugget 👋 

I don't really plan on drawing them that frequently, let alone draw them in those outfits I gave them but I just felt like updating their ref (cause it's been 3 years bruh)

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Hard of hearing Dyscalculic

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Pettiest bitch Loyal but lazy Caring but vicious Forgetful but stubborn Knows all your darkest secrets Fake service dog vibe Will screech Will bite Might have a heart attack if you blow on them

[bulldogges]

Crazy Goblins Aristoteles

[surefirephoto]

Folly

[herdingdognerd]

Everyone thinks their breed is the most special and every person is so right

[briardru]

Fleurette du Champ d'Onix, berger des Pyrenées. The White Sea. 08.03.2024.

[elektroyu]

Another wip of Enzo. :)

[bas-rouge]

OF COURSE THE SHOW I MISS HAS 2 PYRSHEPS ENTERED @scruffydogposting do you know who that would be in CO? It's a brace pair too i believe

[fjordfolk]

PyrShep!

well i mean i think it’s pretty clear what happened here. the wave of romanticism washed over central europe and with it came the pure breeding movement, making once-ambivalent people look at their dogs and go “huh. i guess we should… organize these somehow?”

and to be fair they did a pretty decent job, except by the end they were stuck with a reasonably sized pool of misfits. dogs that just didn’t fit the preconceived ideas, too small to be picards or briards, to smooth to be mudis or croatians, too fluffy for beaucerons, you get the picture. they didn’t particularly look like each other, but they looked even less like any of the others, so they loaded them up, they sent them as far as their delivery service was willing to take them, and said congratulations, these are your problem now

and now matter how you look at it that’s at least false marketing

[grison-in-space]

Ha, on the other hand I'm over here going "hey Matilda, you want to grow just a LITTLE more...?" She was just 31 pounds last I checked; I think she's going to be right at the bittiest end of the standard. I should see if I can get a height on her, come to think of it; I'm not entirely sure she's cleared 17" all the way...

Niiiiiiiiice. Yeah, my sports classes are at a group with an experienced and talented trainer who is absolutely insistent that you do the foundations right first well before you get to play with fun stuff. One of the other trainers at the school, the one who did the babiest puppy class, breeds and trains Beagles; the head trainer I'm in classes with now has competed JRTs, Brittanies, and Poodles over the course of her life as well as the usual BCs, Aussies, and PyrShep. I know her wife has a little kelpie at the moment who is about Matilda's age. There's plenty of terriers in the classes, which pleases me: I know there's been the Border Terrier I gush about, and there's been a Welsh through recently I know about as well. On the other hand I watched her work easily through a young Doberman struggling with hind end awareness walking on a twelve inch wide board laid on the ground; she's asking him to walk on it with all his feet, and he wants to keep his hind feet braced on the ground because he's a big lad and he's not certain about the narrow board. There's a lot of cheerful discussion about the different things that small dogs and large dogs struggle with. It's pretty great.

Oh yeah mat work is the throughline of both Matilda's more pet-oriented puppy classes and also her sports ones. Love mat work. I hadn't really ever run into people teaching it explicitly before I moved up here in 2021 but it's so incredibly useful as a concept, both in terms of distance and in terms of just living with the dog. I forgot about it because it's just part of all our classes right now! Also Zen Bowl, come to think of it.

Last week versus this week. I don't think he'll be borrowing Kermit's crate anymore.

Also, doing It's Yer Choice, restrained recalls, and toy switching in class is exhausting!

[soulpups]

I have a secret, deep love and admiration for rough faced pyrsheps