Buying Details
Please email us at admin@CountryCatholics.com if you would like to be on our wait list. This will allow you to get top pick of the next litter and more information earlier as they are conceived and born. We will advertise to the public around 3 to 4 weeks old. These Great Pyrenees, American Kennel Club registered, purebred puppies are a great option for a livestock guardian dog, house pet, or therapy dog. We expect to breed again around the fall of 2024 with puppies to go home around the start of 2025, once they are at least 8 weeks old. The price per puppy is $750 with a $250 deposit down. We can deliver puppies to most cities around us... Des Moines, Omaha, Kansas City, Topeka, Columbia, St. Louis, Lake of the Ozarks, Hannibal for a $50 charge. We also send them home with a large ziplock bag of food to help you transition. Deworming and the Distemper/Parvo shot will also be done around 7 weeks on each puppy unless you state otherwise.
Pros and Cons
Pros
+ Livestock Guardian: they will protect against coyotes, racoons, foxes, other dogs, etc.
+ Friendly: 100% great with kids, one of our first litter pups went to a 2 year old as a therapy dog and she fell asleep with her arm around the pups neck on day one, the pup just laid there.
+ Good balance: With the two above traits, how do they do with the company that comes over or a delivery guy? Well for the most part they have a bigger bark than bite. So with their large size and loud bark, it is plenty of a deterrent for other 'humans' coming up to your home. However, being they are so friendly to people I never hear of them actually being a perpetrator.
+ Beautiful: I am a lover of white, but as any mom knows how do you keep it clean? Truth is their coats just naturally stay pretty white (punn intended). Like any animal, the more you brush them the better, but even without a bath and being outdoors in the mud I am surprised how their fur stays so nice looking!
+ Lazy: While they do love to guard at night. They are super laid back during the day, typically sleeping. They are great as puppies too, because they require much less attention and walking than other pets do.
Cons
- Bark: It is true, they do have a loud bark, which can be annoying especially at night. Depending on your set up and where they will be at night, they might not be the best dog for your situation. We do have LOTS of coyotes, probably weekly we hear them at night. So weekly we hear the dogs. Mostly we just sleep through it and let them do their job.
- Chewing: This is really only an issue for about the first 4 months you have them. They start around 2 months old (when they go home) to 6 months. It is nothing more than other puppies.
- Roaming: Great Pyrenees were originally bred to roam... the mountains of the Pyrenees. So they can have a reputation to travel esp when you have a smaller pasture and unfenced. It very much depends on your situation and set up. Do you have a fenced in yard? Will they be a complete house pet? Do you have over 100 acres? For us, esp with breeding, we keep ours mostly fenced in. Duke free ranges more of the property (without a GPS tracker) in the evenings. So far he is always near and comes when we call his name, which of course we reward him for with some left over gravy or something!
