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I have a low chain link fence. I was very concerned when I moved into my house with my rescued Great Pyrenees. She has never even tried to escape. I am sure that this is because I rescued her from a home where she was left with no food or water. Tied around the waist with a rope to a tree.... and nursing three puppies. My friend and I cut her loose and gave her and the puppies food and water. I called every agency in Oklahoma City only to be told "she's on the list". I began working with the Bella Foundation (Angels on earth) It took me 2 months to rescue her. She was so ill and malnourished when I took her to my vet that (as I was told much later) I was the only person in the world who believed she would survive.... And survive she did!!! We have been together for 4 years now. She went from being afraid of the world to being the friendliest most loving dog ever!! Great Pyrenees are beautiful intelligent and yes independent creatures. You must respect this independent nature to be a worthy Human to this amazing dog!!!

Man my Pyrenees border collie mix won’t stay home I haven’t been able to to keep him contained. We live about a mile from my kids elementary school and he keep going up there to find them. Yesterday he took my other dog and one of the goats with him, we found all three of them hanging out at the school during recess.

I adopted a shelter dog who turned out to be an English Pointer about 11 months old. He is sweet, funny, understands basic commands, and can jump my 6 ft. fence going after squirrels or other dogs. Following the advice of a German girl expert at this very thing, I bought prey toys and play with him in the house. Outside I had no choice but a 20' tether. I'm on Social Sec. and am 76. He is on the tether several times a day with me outside with him and we are making a life together. We take car rides as well and he adores them....telling the world grandma has a huntin' dog!

I’m so glad you shared your fencing process, including the final necessity of an electric fence.

I heard how high these guys can jump and was very happy that our big guy Milo never did it. Luckily we have gotten by with our fence! Although he has popped out the window screen twice and escaped the house for us! Nice informational video!

This is a sign of a smart dog, which is what you want.

I keep imagining Tnartn Koda even trying to jump fences!!!

I recommend cattle panels. It’s much stouter than the welded wire and add a hot line above the fence line to keep your jumper down. For the digging we made a rebar barrier that you drive into the ground and attach to the fence. They still dig but stop because they’re still seeing the rebar a foot down. Since y’all are in Texas I recommend using the tool developed by the Texas FFA for attaching the clips to tposts. It comes in 6” and 3” sizes; it has a flathead on one side and the other side has a hole for wrapping the ends up. I’ll see if I can find the link if you want.

Our Great Pyrenees is now 18 months old. We have 2 acres fenced that I've reinforced.Some double height at 6-8' but most 4' with barbedwire on top. He hasn't escaped yet but I think that he just hasn't figured it out yet. I'm keeping my fingers crossed as I continue to think of ways to outsmart him. We have coyotes here in the Nevada desert. I'm sure that he wants of piece of them.......

these dogs are very loyal and obedient if you train them to respect your boundary it will take time but it will be a success

I just want to thank you I'm so grateful that I found this video we just adopted a three-year-old Great Pyrenees Mary jumped over 6, 8 ft wall w twice now we never leave him alone who is cheddar to us your property but we do have a nice piece of property turn our back on him he's been with this for 8 days now thank you again for helping those of us who have no knowledge at all how to take care of this beautiful creature God Bless America

Great video, very informative! Thank you!

Nice video, I have a Great Pyrenees and agree with your advice.

Thanks for answering my question with this video. It helps to have your hindsight as my foresight! Appreciate your channel.

Super helpful! We have a pretty low fence at the edge of a yard, so we'll definitely be replacing that.

Thank you for sharing your experiences, tips and those tools for putting up the fence.

Pyrs are escape artists as their domain is as far as the horizon. Hence the name "Disa-pyr"......still the best breed around.

Excellent Channel! You deliver super important information about these little dogs. Always keep it up and greetings from the far south of Chile!

word for word with pit mixes .,..,.. sheeeeeeeeesh! thanks for the video! LIKED AND SUSCRIBED!

I came to this video in desperation this evening. I have been beaten by an approximately 60 to 75 pound great Pyrenees. She has gotten out more times than I can count. I have an electric wire across part of the fence and obviously she’s gotten out from that. I put barbed wire at the top of a fence and she’s gotten out some other kind away which I’m not even sure. Thanks much for the video.

That’s why I only buy no climb woven fencing. My dogs have ripped up enough of the welded stuff that I’ve learned my lesson.

Halo 3 GPS collar, no more fences. Works for mine

Hi, I love your content I’m curious to know if you take them on any trails, or to the mountains?

Thank you SO MUCH. I just adopted an 18 mos(ish) old pyr. He’s such a goofball. Still very much a puppy. I’m learning about the breed and assessing my fence situation. my gosh you have experience and I’m going rite to electric after watching this!! again thank you. I subscribed!! God Bless!!

I am going through the same with our male GP. Out female never tries to get out though. Falco has jumped our fence in multiple different areas and he has also ripped through our fence.

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I appreciate the fencing advice. I planned to use cattle panels but we can add electric fence. That's what we had to do to keep the deer out of the garden

My dogs learned the hot wire along with my pigs. I put a wire on top of the fence and they won’t even bother. But I found just as you did, my dogs went through the fence too lol. I decided to put another wire about chest height an’d that has worked.

Goodness. The struggle is real! Adopted a GO found by the interstate in KC Thanksgiving 2021. He was 60# and most of his hair was missing. We already had 7 rescued dogs and he was 8. 10ac 4’ field fence with 2 lines of barbed wire. (You know this song and dance) We have twin 5yo kids. Didn’t want a hot wire. We have a front 5 AC the house is in and a back 5ac with weaker field fence back there in spots. We keep the back 5 closed to dogs except in winter when the poison ivy and tick season is over. The other dogs don’t jump but we have left the back closed to them this winter because of Biggie. He is jumping the front and back… doesn’t matter. Fi GPS collar, two lighted collars, a regular collar, a harness… have to sit in drive and watch him so he doesn’t jump. Our lives revolve around our rescued GP and keeping him safe. Thinking of an underground wire system a neighbor uses on his but he only had 3.5 of his AC done. Not sure if that was a system limitation. Concerned about a hot wire because our house is in the middle of our front 5ac and we have to pull through the gate multiple times a day. SOS

I have loved every GP that I've met! I'm looking to add an lgd to our little 4 acres homestead. We have 4' or 5' fencing (depending on the area) with hot wire around the top. If we do get an lgd we'll probably add another hot wire a little higher. Do females tend to escape less than males?

I’m getting ready to build a fence for my Rottweilers.I have a road on both sides of my house and can’t afford for them to get out.I already planned on using electric along with a 6ft woven wire fence.

American bulldogs can jump 8 ft fencing the only way we can stop him was to put a tin fencing all the way around so he could not see the other side were he would land hope this helps I also found my boy would plow through wire and get ripped up so tin worked

Found your vlog, love the breed. Do you think having so many and not being engaged to the livestock could be part of the concern? Seems they want some adventures and simulation so their instincts are kicking in. Video ours climbing, straddling and then climbing down before jumping..she would just go to the front door and push the doorbell. We made some changes lol Take care

My parents have a picket fence, mine used her front feet to repeatedly push against a panel till she knocked it down. We found her running through the forest (spotlight). Every time she gets lose here, she makes for the cow pasture down the road.

Hi, I have a 9 months old male and he probably soon will start to challange the fencing. I respect the hard work you done just to realise that the electric was the way to go. With that Fort Knox fencing you have now theres no acual need to have dogs to guard. No predator will manage to enter, exept eagles. Guess you just have the pyrs now bacause you love them 🙂. Best regards from Sweden.

Do the try to escape when you're with them or when you're not looking? I plan to get a GP, but I will be with them most of the time. He/she will be an indoor dog. Wondering if I need to prep my fence prior to adopting...

hello and thanks for your input! You doing a great job on your little farm...... I just had one question? Do you thnk that just the electric wire would have kept in your dogs with your original four foot fence without having to extend it ? We just got two GP pups and are working them into thier job. Boy do they learn fast! our fence is not going to keep them in as they have already found weak points in the fence and gotten out at only 9 week old!

Wait until he goes under it.Our GP has done it before and we have a similar fence but have wooden 8” round post and welded wire fence for horses

We are having a problem with our Great Pyrenees lab mix. We have a 6 foot wooden fence and he climbs and jumps it no problem. I can sum up this breed by saying they are smart enough to know that they can be stubborn, lol! So we are trying to come up with some solutions and unfortunately at the moment our finances are tight. We have talked about maybe another dog so he would not be lonely. Maybe one that is small and can’t jump the fence, lol! But I don’t know if that would work. He also ripped the wire for the electric fence off. We want to try it again and try to put it on the other side of the fence but I am seeing stories of Great Pyrenees still jumping the fence electric or not. We thought about an overhang too but that is very expensive. So we are also wondering maybe he needs a new home since we can’t give him what he needs. We have 3 kids and a big backyard but no livestock and we live in a busy street. I am so anxious one of these days he will get hit by a car.

My brother had his Great Pyrenees in a 6 foot fence and when the male got a little older he just jumped the fence every time my brother put him in he’s pin…. So he just lets him roam the farm now.. he just watches the cows & goats now … and that’s true if the cows go to the hi field s . The Great Pyrenees male dog will follow them to watch over them at night because here you can hear the coyotes at night.

The more goats the better to keep them in 😊

My dog got zapped once and she hadn't touched it since and it's just off now but she remembers and knows it will shock you and it's not even a foot off the ground I've been blessed she stays inside her perimeter but sometimes I forget to shut the gate and she will run chasing cars and she will ignore my commands which is natural because they are stubborn and independent but sometimes it scares me she going to get hit I've been thinking about a vibrate shock collar just to work with commands but I just don't know

Some will climb an 8' or even taller fence... We've done well with 4' electric net as a temporary fence. For permanent fence, I plan 4-5' of woven wire with two strands of hot wire giving it another foot. Not sure what I will do at the bottom... Either bury 1-2' of fence or put a hot wire inset. I would prefer to avoid the inset hot wire, but I am not sure how feasible it will be to bury so much fence.

I installed a 6 foot fence and my 9 month old Pyrenees bite the fence pulls it back and forth and escapes under it. It’s time for the eclectic! 😁

I have a Pitbull Malinois mix and he can jump our 8 foot fence. He gets a running start and his front paws don’t even touch it, but his back paws do at about 6 1/2 feet and the he propels himself over. 😮

We have wired our entire fence line, our oldest GP starts digging 4 feet back from the hot wire and digs under it.

Good deal.

If you have to cut down thick trees cut them at the bottom of the fence they work too.

Also have a Pyr. Also have an electric fence.

Good vidio just cut back down on the background music. You got a clear voice. No need to distort it. 👍

My 8 month old great Pyrenees just learned to climb the fence 😫

We have used GP's on our farm, for eight years now. We learned when buying/looking for a good potential livestock guardian, buy from a breeder who has livestock, and has the puppies running with their mother in the herd, because their mother is already teaching them the job and that the livestock are not playmates, and these puppies when brought to the farm will begin to merge with the herd on instinct and bond to them. Don't buy from a breeder who just produces GP's and has them kenneled up and their dogs have never seen a goat or chicken. A 48-inch high, sheep/goat fence with one strand of electric wire at least 5000vdc at 18 inches off the ground (same wire that teaches our goats not to rub against the fencing) is enough to teach the GP puppies when young to respect the fence and learn their boundaries, providing there is plenty of acreage for them to roam and protect. Walk the fence boundaries 3 to 4 times daily when training new pups their territory, and they will learn to patrol that perimeter on their own. GP's don't do well with small lots like in neighborhoods or confined areas, those are the GP's that want to climb fences and run off. A GP on a large acreage farm with a job of protecting a good sized herd will not have the urge to climb fences. GP's want a job, and get bored and will test you if you don't provide them with what nature intended them to do - guard large flocks and herds on large acreage. We feel so sorry for the GP's that end up on city homes and then the owners think their GP's are testing them, have social disorders, bark all the time, and are a pain in the rear ... they are just begging you to let them do what they have done for 2000 years, guard flocks. What we see here on YOUR property is that first, it looks small, too small for GP's. 10 acres is a good starting point for GP's to not be bored and jump fences. Second, start them as puppies on a electric strand just high enough off the ground for them to touch, and learn to respect the fence at an early age. Third, you are building your fence with t-posts and welded wire mesh! That is no fence for even a goat, of course the dogs will break or as you say 'rig through' fence. Welded wire mesh is terrible, just a goat putting its front legs on it can break it. You need to use 5-6"x 8 ft round posts and sink them 30 inches in the ground, and use a woven sheep/goat fence, like Redbrand 48" tall. Your fence is not tight, and you can't make a tight fence with welded wire and t-posts. With all those dogs, you need at least 30 head of livestock to keep them busy guarding or they will get bored just running around with a few chickens and a few goats. You have to know the breed of dog you have, they will always want to roam and do other things if you don't keep them on a job with a responsibility. From what we see here, your dogs are just bored, and are telling you so. Not being mean or anything, just trying to help you understand what a great pyrenees needs to keep him happy and want to stay at home.

Once they learn about the electrical fence, you can pretty much turn it off, that’s what I’ve done for years 😊

An 8 ft fence is great but we had to bury our cattle fencing and cement it in underground to keep our Pyr from digging under.

I just got a Great Pyrenees

How do you keep them from chewing thought the welded wire fence. I can't have an electric fence in my township, I plan on putting up smaller mesh to keep my Pyr from being able to get his teeth into it. Funny, the vet was concerned that Apollo had a missing tooth. He chews at the fence relentlessly. The 2 x 4 welded wire will not work. We have kids and neighbors that visit with Apollo every day so not electric fence is possible,

So put an IPhone air tag on his collar. Petco also sells gps trackers for dogs. As for jumping fences. It’s about separation anxiety. They do not believe that you will come home. So you need to start taking them places with you. To teach them that you will come home. Then spend a lot of time with them. If that doesn’t work you might look into doggie Prozac.

What’s outside the fence he’s gotta get too?

Omg so I rescued a male Pyrenees and I went out for 15 mins and he got out !!!! I searched for 30 mins about to give up …….until I found him lol

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It's obvious that there is a large motivation for mack to get outside the fence. If you take that motivation away he won't want to escape.

Wait until he goes under it.Are fence is similar but we have 8” round post with welded wire fence for horses.

Our foster mama had her puppies the other day. I took Mama to the backyard to let her go potty and separated her from the babies. She is about the size of Gloria and jumped our fence to get back up with the puppies. I thought maybe I had left the gate open went back and checked and it was closed. I don't know how after just having puppy she cleared that fence but she did.

Something within a Pyrenees demands he guards and runs a border check. His concern is about his flock. Typically it's where he stays. My neighbor’s GP has adopted my 5 acres, several acres across the county road, in addition to the 150 acres of his owners' land. He 'guards' my husband's walk (with cane) to the mailbox; the 2 chicken enclosures across the country rd. Occasionally I see him sitting in my orchard watching the 10 acres field across my Eastern boundary. I'm thinking he just needs his own flock. No amount of livestock or fencing is going to deter him now. He has mapped out his territory. Within this neighborhood he has a fan club of about 15 people. So, his 'guard' instincts are met but this isn't ideal for him. It cannot be stressed enough that the introduction of herd and boundaries to a Pyrenees be done at the outset of ownership. Introduction to the herd AND the boundaries is prime. Their instincts will take it from there.

We have a four wire electric fence and our GP's are still getting out! 😡 not sure there is any way to keep them in. Lol

Anyone watching have any experience with invisible fencing and shock collars re: Pyrs?

ours used to escape and end up hanging out with local folk in the Hollywood hills , literally hanging out in someones living room mooching food

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I have a pitbull mix that can jump well over 6 ft. We underestimate dogs lol.

if you have an 8 foot fence with 2 strands of hotwire i don’t see why 5 lgds is necessary.

That's why they call the the great disappear-ynees

They roam... That's what they do...

My 2 can barely jump onto the bed lol

THEY LOOK SO SKYNE GIVE THEM MORE FOOD

Will they accept your guests?friendly

@willow ridge acres wish you were close I would to breed my baby she's one and six months old weighing at 98 pds

After spending 35k on perimeter fencing I really need low budget ideas lol. We are out of cash

dogs a bored... we have 4' fence on 1/4 acre and 2 male GP have never dug,,,just plcaced a bunch of toys

I wish my GP could be stopped by an electric fence.

Ours keeps falling off the sofa

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That background music is kind of distracting when it is over your voice. ..

Electric fence.

What made you add that extremely annoying music to your very enjoyable video ?

The Background Music is too loud, it drowns out your voice, my friend.

Loose the music

Music is far too loud, far too distracting. I want to hear YOU not some calypso band back there.

Our Great Pyrenees are under the fence diggers. Easy peasy for them. SO frustrating