Thank you to everyone for all your suggestions and help. We were able to get the pups with a brood bitch whose own pups were just about weaned.The pups are doing great. They are all starting to put on weight and get bigger, even the little runt of the litter. The brood bitch that is nursing them is very sweet and she is raising them exactly as if they were her own babies. She is very careful with them and I expect that they should all make it through this without any more problems. I have decided to keep a nice female and will try to start showing her in about seven or eight months.

Tara Jones Dixie Spirits Saints & Pyrs Alto, Georgia

-- Tara Jones (DixieSpirits@aol.com), January 20, 2002

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OH !!! Wish we lived closer and I would take a look at one or two fo those pups !! Been looking for a new GS pup since our 14 year old died this summer. The cost of a "real"one is out of my budget. Looking at the shelters and called the GS clubs and rescue leagues but no luck yet. We live in the snowy mountains of Northern PA. I will have to look for the previous story to find it out. Good Luck with finding them homes !!

-- Helena (windyacs@npacc.net), January 20, 2002.

Maybe I should have read more carefully ?? I bet these are Greyhound puppies and not German shepherd pups ?? Guess I just have German Shepherds on the brain..Good Luck anyway !!!!

-- Helena (windyacs@npacc.net), January 20, 2002.

Helena, these would actually turn out to be Grand Pyrenees puppies. Extremely big, furry, reliable, noisy, not-for-close-neighbours LGD's (Livestock Guard Dogs).

-- Don Armstrong (darmst@yahoo.com.au), January 21, 2002.

Don, You have described my Pyrs perfectly. In the right environment they are the best dog you could ever own. I was told we could never raise sheep on the mountain we live on due to predators, with my Pyrs I have never had a problem. We love them, they love our livestock and why anyone would keep them in town I don't know.

Kim

-- kim (fleece@eritter.net), January 21, 2002.