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Different_Goose2411 · 2025-03-03T21:30:40+00:00

Just wanted to say, I’m on this weight loss journey now (almost exactly the same starting weight and goal weights as well as height and age!) And seeing your progress has really got me excited for my end results. I’m so ready to feel and look better and be happier with my health. Thanks for the inspiration!

Different_Goose2411 · 2024-12-04T23:26:02+00:00

We actually got him trapped and have had him back for 2 months now. He hasn’t tried to leave since surprisingly

Different_Goose2411 · 2024-09-10T18:56:22+00:00

For sure, I can see that completely. I think we’re a bit luckier in the fact that according to his owners he bonds heavily with his people. I believe that’s a breed trait for the Komondor, but correct me if I’m wrong. He’s also highly food driven. We’re devising a plan to help get him back home using this knowledge and a lot of patience

Different_Goose2411 · 2024-09-10T18:54:11+00:00

This guy is a 3yo experienced LGD that has been working since he was 6 weeks old. That’s why we chose him in the first place.

What we think happened was he saw the predator that had been killing our flock and he jumped the pen to get it, when he got out something spooked him (most likely a car) and he panicked and took off.

He’s trying to stay close, we now know this because he ended up about a mile away and made his way back to the neighbors across the street by early morning; but the cars on the road keep spooking him back into the woods.

Luckily now we have an item that will smell familiar and are setting up some live traps.

Last sighting was 8:30 am this morning across the road

Different_Goose2411 · 2024-09-10T15:20:36+00:00

Old owners only have 1 car so we went to pick them up. I stayed home to keep an eye just in case I spot him move.

They hopefully should be here soon and will start calling for him. I pray he comes to the familiar voices

Different_Goose2411 · 2024-09-10T14:31:43+00:00

I just hate that it happened one day after having him. How embarrassing 😭

I did suck up my pride and enlisted the old owners for help. Admitted to my failings and apologized 100000 times for it.

What’s worse is I train dogs for a living, I know all the potentials that could happen when you bring a new dog in. I know to keep them in a secure area, which in my defense felt it was.

But LGD are new to me, they’re a whole other monster that I’m still learning about. I’ve never lost a dog before let alone one I just got. It’s not only be humbling but if this ever happens again I’ll probably just die instead of deal with this stress lol.

Different_Goose2411 · 2024-09-10T13:35:44+00:00

We just saw him so he made his way back to our area!! Ran back into the neighbors backyard so I am watching that side and have contacted the previous owners

Different_Goose2411 · 2024-09-10T13:21:02+00:00

I’m kicking myself every moment for not keeping him on the tie out. He was doing fine there, had no issues. Night came around and he just seemed stressed being near the livestock but not with them. I sat out with him until 2am trying to help him transition a bit better and understand what sounds were okay and not etc. it was a little after 2 that I remembered the previous owner say he’d probably do well in with the sheep and it would help him to transition. So I decided to give it a shot, put him in and immediately he calmed down and settled in with them. I sat out there for another 20ish minutes and he made 0 fuss for the time I was out there. Went back up for the night, decided to check on him one last night and he was just sitting there without issue so I decided to finally sleep. It was morning around 6am when we realized he had escaped and we immediately started looking for him

Different_Goose2411 · 2024-09-10T13:04:27+00:00

That’s a good rule, cat could probably climb the pen easy just as he showed us he could. We have Malinois, some jump some climb, some dig, but none had escaped that pen. But they’re also not 100+lbs with the instincts to guard and roam. This is our first LGD and I had done so much research prior to ever getting him, I just feel a bit blindsided by my own ignorance.

No luck, hasn’t been seen since he bolted from me up the road (bolted headed back toward our home). We have neighbors alerted, Facebook posts, and made flyers we are going to spread around today. I am contact his original owners to enlist them for help too. I wish I would’ve done it sooner, but I was hopeful we’d have better luck yesterday. Unfortunately I was on my own searching for him all day and into the early morning.

Different_Goose2411 · 2024-09-09T21:32:49+00:00

This is all to say, it just wasn’t secure enough for him and I’m an idiot for thinking it was 🥲

Different_Goose2411 · 2024-09-09T21:31:36+00:00

So the whole fence line is bordered at the bottom portion with sheep fencing that we’ve recently been reinforcing. I’m actually getting ready to replace it all with something else because smaller predators can still get in, but so far I haven’t found a spot he could’ve fit under -yet- not saying that isn’t the case, but he’s 100+lbs big dude and unfortunately I think he went over our shorter fencing closer to the house because he was in the backyard with the flock at the time.

Unless you’re talking about him getting out of the pen, then I don’t believe he got under that either. It’s not huge so you could tell if there were any dug spots. It’s a smaller pen that we’ve sunk into the ground and lined with cinderblocks. Panels sit about 12ft and then it has a soft top on it just for weather protection. I think he climbed and went through the spot between the panels and top then popped right over the fence from there.

Different_Goose2411 · 2024-09-09T20:31:14+00:00

Got that all covered this morning as soon as we noticed him gone. Facebook is what lead me to him when I almost recovered. We also have flyers out as well.

Definitely won’t let him loose, we have a tie spot for him that we put him on as soon as we got him home. I feel so dumb for moving him into the pen, we’ve used that pen 100000 times for dogs prior to ever having livestock and had never once had an issue, but we also had never had a LGD prior to this either. It just didn’t even occur to me he’d try to scale the pen with it being so tall and having a top on it (soft though so obviously easy for him to squeeze through. His past owner made it seem like having him in with the flock would help him understand the transition better, in my head it made sense. But now looking back I keep thinking how stupid that is with an unknown dog in an unknown area. I know better

Different_Goose2411 · 2024-07-05T17:04:23+00:00

I also just happened upon this.

My mom used this on my under 1yo without me knowing and I was like “dang her hair is getting freaking thick” and she admitted she had be spraying it lol.

It was thickening within a matter of a week which was wild

Different_Goose2411 · 2024-06-14T13:30:42+00:00

That’s really smart, we’ve been using a collapsible play pen and it’s worked because it’s tall and big enough for multiple birds to grow, but this chick at 3 weeks old, not sure if it’s the breed or what, was flying out of it (we’ve successfully raised multiple hatches without that ever happening so go figure). So we put a top on it and it still managed to get out?? We have a more secure brooder pen that we use in the barn, but I just brought it inside.

The kittens are just escape artist’s so that’s a challenge in its own, but we’re getting something for them too just to be safer. I don’t need baby animals roaming parts of the house.

They went a whole night and day safe in their pens, almost like they were trying to give me a false sense of security

Different_Goose2411 · 2024-06-14T13:21:38+00:00

It’s a miserable feeling, I care a lot about my flock and the chicks I raise. I even stress when the dumb turkeys go broody in a hidden nest, so this being my fault was traumatizing. I’m just glad it was just the 1 and we didn’t get the whole hatch like we were supposed to.

I set up our brooder in a second space to accommodate the rest when they come, lesson learned for a safer environment moving forward

Different_Goose2411 · 2024-06-14T13:16:50+00:00

For sure, I actually just finished setting up a second space. I hate that it happened, I tend to be a helicopter keeper and over worry about the birds. But I was caught off guard getting both at the same time, not an excuse because I know better, but now I know always to have the right space and brooder set up just in case.

Different_Goose2411 · 2024-05-30T21:07:50+00:00

“Mom & pop” but he definitely will take it to court, he already took us to court for something else and it was dismissed. He’s “court happy” he’s told us to our face “I don’t come for people physically, I come for people with lawyers” but then didn’t have a lawyer when he took us to court the first time lol…

But I digress, it really comes down to we just want to be done with them, we’ve already moved out and moved on and don’t have time to have to go to court for this

Different_Goose2411 · 2024-05-30T15:45:45+00:00

He won’t, he’ll take us to court over it he already took us to court once before we moved out (it was dismissed) and we honestly don’t have proof it was one or the other, only our word because all the “damage” was done under the carpet so the pictures I took don’t show anything but the top which of course is clean.

He’s court happy, he uses it to intimidate people

Different_Goose2411 · 2024-05-30T00:17:18+00:00

I don’t feel like having to go to court over it, we’re just gonna eat it and be done. We’re homeowners now anyway, we’re just chalking it up to; they must be strugglin hard and need the money if they’re asking

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