"Boys Will Be Boys"



Sam Watching

 High Meadows has had several large guardian dogs over the years and they are  essential to our operation. The Anatolian cross puppy litters have produced several very fine stock dogs and a few that just did not make the grade. Sam and Badger are pups in training. They are working about ten acres with twenty six older does. Early in their training the does will teach them manners, correct ways to approach and how to move with the goats as they forage. Dogs are usually over a year old before they really begin to bond with and guard their goats.



Badger Watching



Sam and Badger Not Watching



More not watching

 Sometimes the warm summer days can stretch on forever and the guarding becomes boring. The urge to wrestle and play becomes overpowering and the goats are temporarily forgotten. The boys have learned it is ok to chew on each other and not the goats and so...boys will be boys...until they hear another dog or a hawk flys over and then it's back to work.