A love affair we will not soon forget!
Great Pyrenees Puppies, only a few days old. Look at those paws!
In the summer for 2023, our farm had our last litter of Great Pyrenees. We feel, at this time, there are just too many working dogs looking for homes, in our area, right now to continue breeding. Please feel free to email us if you are looking for a puppy or dog as we do keep in contact with reputable breeders (who sadly, are few and far between).
Gunnar, Runa and a pup from their 2019 Great Pyrenees litter
About Great Pyrenees
These livestock guardian dogs originate from the Pyrenees Mountains, located between France and Spain. The breed is so old, they have been fossilized. They are intuitively kind and nurturing to vulnerable and small animals. They are naturally nocturnal, warding off predators during the night. In the 1700's they were declared the royal dog in France. Queen Victoria of England owned one. Pyrenean blood was used with other large breeds to bring back the St. Bernard breed. During WWII they carried artillery through the Great Pyrenees Mountains.
Selby & Yeti, our papered Great Pyrenees breeders, enjoying the snow
Today the Great Pyrenees is a working dog as well as a companion and family dog. They function as livestock guardian dogs on farms and ranches and make wonderful companion dogs in the right environment. The Great Pyrenees are also known to be great therapy dogs, rescue dogs, and happily go along with many activities with its human companions.
Great Pyrenees dogs are very social in the family and get along extremely well with other animals. Some maybe wary of strangers in the work environment (this includes the home). Great Pyrenees adapt easily to changing situations and environments when exposed to them at a young age and work well in many settings such as hospitals, old age homes, schools, etc. They have a special ability to identify and distinguish predators or unwelcome intruders. They are nurturing of small, young, or sick animals.
Our Dogs
We have two sets of breeding Great Pyrenees :
1. Selby, and Yeti (who works on a goats farm in Santa Fe and is leased to use for breeding purposes), are AKC registered Great Pyrenees, waiting for OFA health testing completion.
2. Runa (75% Great Pyrenees and 25% Anatolian Shepard) and Gunnar (100% Great Pyrenees), are not papered.
Yeti and Selby, Great Pyrenees guarding or rather playing next to their goats
Our puppies are raised with their working livestock guardian parents on our 2 acre homestead in the mountains outside of Albuquerque, south of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Some litters will be AKC registered and some are not.
Our Great Pyrenees puppies enjoying some time in the grass for photos before going right back to mom.
Our puppies learn alongside their parents how to protect our livestock (over 75 fowl, rabbits and a few goats), obey fences, stay away from predators, and how to socialize as a dog. We put our heart and souls into our livestock guardian puppies, raising them for the first few weeks indoors (we have a high predator load and prefer to wait to move them outdoors), and then transition them full time to the outdoors as maturity and weather permits (usually 3-4wks). They play alongside our children and are fully socialized, personable, and learning basic commands when they leave for their new homes.
Comfy Great Pyrenees puppies in their shelling box
We do offer the opportunity to keep puppies for additional training, at a cost. Although, Great Pyrenees are not fully trained to livestock even after a few months of training and are not to be trusted alone with stock until the age of two.
Great Pyrenees Puppies born on our New Mexico Homestead November 2019. Photo from Mary Funk Photography.
Runa and Tiny take a nap in a Great Pyrenees dugout.
Great Pyrenees puppies often go in and out of stages when are great with their charges followed by times when the chase, torment, or, in a rare situation, kill livestock. This mostly happens when the puppies are “playing” with stock. We recommend pups are tethered or housed next to your stock when you are not around to supervise your pup. Fowl are often the hardest for Great Pyrenees puppies to bond with and some may never bond to them at all. However, this often times means they will still protect them because they will not allow predators on the property- charges to protect or not.
Fill out our puppy application HERE to be considered and save your space for our upcoming December 2022 litter.
Meet Our Dogs
Gunnar, Great Pyrenees Sire
Gunnar is a badger marked male. He is a very large Great Pyrenees and is still filling out. He is personable and will follow any child around the property to keep them safe, babies are his life blood, human or animal. He takes his job of guarding our flock seriously and runs to their aid when they alert call, never venturing far from them, and is also trained to keep aerial predators at bay. He has a huge bark and is not afraid to use it at all hours. He is a gentle giant and great snuggler.
Runa, Great Pyrenees & 1/8 ANATOLIAN Shepard.DAm
Runa is a doll. She is very laid back and loves all living creatures. She is very tolerant of young animals and humans. She definitely shows of the characteristics of the more aloof Anatolian Shepard, granted she is only 1/8 Anatolian Shepard, but at times when you are outside you won’t even see her as she takes watching her property and napping as top farm priorities and leaves the socializing to Gunnar. She has been requested by the local middle school to become a service dog for them when she retires from guarding because napping with reading children is a preferred past time as well. She is not a big barker unless necessary but instead prefers to guard in a more stealth manner. She makes large perimeter sweeps often and likes to be on the move. If she is barking it’s a worth a look, as she only makes extra effort when something is amiss.
Selby, AKC registered, Great Pyrenees, CurRent Dam.
Selby is from a working farm in Tennessee. She has been with goats since day one and is a great addition to our farm to guard larger livestock. She is more aggressive than our other dogs and her pups will be a great addition to any one needing livestock guardian dogs because of higher predator numbers.
Yeti, a papered Great Pyrenees, future sire
Yeti is a working dog from a farm in Arkansas. He does not want to miss out on any opportunity for potential pets or food. He is wonderful with goats and glues himself to any kid who visits the farm. Yeti is now happilY working (guarding goats) on a farm outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico and is leased to us for breeding purposes.
Meet The AKC Registered Puppies of Selby and Yeti born June 2022
Selby and Yeti welcomed 9 badger marked Great Pyrenees puppies on Father’s Day June 22nd 2022, her actual due date (when does that happen?) Selby is a fantastic mom and all the puppies are healthy and gaining weight. Six of the litter are female and 3 are male.
Meet The Puppies
Born 05/31/20
*Runa and Gunnar welcomed 9 puppies on Saturday night, May 31st. Erin was out of town visiting her grandparents and was not anticipating the puppies until June 2nd at the earliest. Starson and the boys happened to hear a puppy cry and ran into the master closet to see Runa having her pups. The homestead now has 5 white pups- three males and two females, plus 4 badger marking pups- three male, and finally, one female! Two of the white pups, one male and one female, are extra small but actually started walking before the rest.
Meet The Puppies
Born 11/09/19
