MAremma sheepdog puppies!
Both of our lovely female Maremma Sheepdog Livestock Guardian Dogs (LGDs) gave birth on May 3, 2023!
Puppies will be ready to be weaned and go to new farms or other small homesteads by the end of July or beginning of August, 2023.
They will be raised exclusively outdoors and trained with goats, cattle, and poultry.
Please use the contact page to let us know if you’d like to reserve a pup!
Meet the Parents and the Puppies!
Maziwa “ZiZi”
Our 5-year old foundation Maremma and the reason we fell in love with this elegant breed.
We got our first Maremma after learning about the breed from the movie “Oddball.” After researching, we found that they bark and wander less than Great Pyrenees and are much smaller, so they live longer, comparable to other dog lifespan (12-15 years on average).
Maziwa (“milk” in Kiswahili) came to us from a farmer named Elva in Binghamton, and her wonderful Maremma mama, Bess. ZiZi was raised around sheep, cattle, and poultry.
We brought ZiZi home at three months old and she went right into the barn. She was a Livestock Guardian right out of the box, thanks to Bess and Elva’s excellent training.
She had a litter of pups in 2021, and we kept one beautiful daughter, Lakshmi. Here is Lakshmi being trained by her mama in the barn:
Mama Zi has done it again!
Her seven puppies are doing great, nursing and growing. Mama enjoys the first goat milk of the morning, as always!
Maziwa is a Maremma of Distinction:
Always watching out for the babies:
Lakshmi: “Shmi”
Lakshmi, the Goddess of Prosperity, also known as the Milk Goddess, of course.
Shmi was our keeper pup from 2021 and is now a full Livestock Guardian Dog at two years old. She spends most of her time with the goats, and is so incredibly tolerant of the babies:
They are all gentle with the livestock. Here are all the dogs initiating our new Zebu bull calf:
Like her mother, Lakshmi is an excellent mama. She popped out nine puppies like it was nothing, and has been vigorously keeping them fed and cleaned. They are plump and well-satisfied little beasts!
Our smallest farmer inspects the new pups.
2021 Pups with our Zebu heifer to see what these babies will look like in a few weeks:
Mleko “Eko”
Mleko (Milk in Polish) is our 2-year old Maremma stud. We got him from a farm in New Hampshire. He can be a big goofball sometimes, yet he still takes his job very seriously.
We know he’s going to be a great Papa and will help train his pups to be great guardians.
Here is Eko as an 8-week old pup:
Puppies from 2021:
Here is Eko as just a pup himself in training along with the other smaller puppies:
Lakshmi and Mleko had a bond from the beginning!
The 2021 puppies grew fast and got lots of training:
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