Maremma Guard Dog for Sale (LGD)
You can now own from our family of Maremma Livestock Guardian Dogs
what we offer
We offer the amazing Maremma Abruzzese guardian dog upon litter availability. If you are considering having a livestock guardian dog or a guardian dog in general we highly encourage you to take a good look at this breed over other more widely known guardian breeds like the Great Pyrenees, Kangal, Akbash and the Anatolian Shepherd. The Maramma sheep dog offers many advantages over other livestock guardian dog breeds that are worth considering. You may take a look at some of them listed on this page. If you are new to Livestock Guardian Dogs, we offer LGD day workshop for an info-packed session on raising, and caring for these wonderful animals. If you are unable to attend our workshop you may be interested our Comprehensive Guide to a Raising Livestock Guardian Dog.
We are not a typical “puppy factory” breeder
We are not of those “kennel breeders” nor do we recommend buying a working guardian dog from a “kennel breeder”. We keep an active guardian stock over our farm animals 24/7. All of our dogs and pups receive appropriate exposure to the livestock-guarding situation from a very early age which is very important in learning the guardian ways from their parents. We holistically consider our dogs development and raise them and their pups by socializing them well on our farm. Our dogs and pups are extremely loyal, affectionate but always well on guard to protect the farm and its inhabitants. They are handled and interacted by adults as well as our children on daily bases.
Although these amazing dogs have an innate natural tendency to protect and guard, early exposure to livestock, children, family and training from their mom and/or dad is crucial for their pups. We work daily with our pups and have them exposed and ready for the livestock of your choice. You can let us know which animal exposure is mostly needed for your puppy before re-homing.
Parental lines of our dogs are from different farms (not biologically related). And each dog is exposed to various livestock. This is a great opportunity for those who want to own this majestic, confident but very loyal working dogs on their property.
What Our Dogs Are Exposed to:
- Children
- Sheep
- Goats
- Chickens
- Turkeys
- Ducks
- Cats
- Horse
What We Feed Our Dogs:
- Premium Dog and Puppy Feed (Italian Farmina brand)
- Bone broth
- Lamb meat and bone scraps
- Hunted venison meat and bone scraps
- Organic eggs from our hens
- Milk left-over from our goats
- Organic kitchen scraps
What Training Our Ready to Guard Dogs Receive:
Mosts of what our pups learn – including proper behaviour around other livestock – comes from experienced mom but there are certain things we as breeders of these amazing pups do that will have have them additionally ready for their successful and long lives as guardian dogs.
- No fence jumping
- Hot wire / fence training
- routine exposure to large selection of livestock animal
- Proper human socialization
- etc…
Our Maremma Dogs’ (Purebred) Physical Traits:
- Creamy off-white colour (no other marks, variations or spots)
- Typical Maremma “Sleepy eyes”
- Distinct Flat head
- The “Lion mane” around the head
- No drooling
- Double coat hair
Our Maremma Dogs
Male Pup
- Rehomed 8-10 weeks
- Naturally Dewormed with NHV & Diatomaceous Earth*
- A Week Supply of Permium Puppy Feed
- Guardian Dog Manual
- Puppy Collar
- Socialized with Children
- Socialized with Sheep
- Socialized with Goats
- Socialized with Cats
- Socialized with Chickens
- Socialized with Turkeys
- Socialized with Ducks
- Socialized with Horse
- Life Time Support
- Access to Compressive Guide to Raising an LGD
Female Pup
- Rehomed 8-10 weeks
- Naturally Dewormed with NHV & Diatomaceous Earth*
- A Week Supply of Permium Puppy Feed
- Guardian Dog Manual
- Puppy Collar
- Socialized with Children
- Socialized with Sheep
- Socialized with Goats
- Socialized with Cats
- Socialized with Chickens
- Socialized with Turkeys
- Socialized with Ducks
- Socialized with Horse
- Life Time Support
- Access to Compressive Guide to Raising an LGD
Trained LGD Dog
- Up to 6 months of guard training
- Naturally Dewormed with NHV & Diatomaceous Earth*
- Electric Fence Trained
- Guardian Dog Manual
- Comes with Collar
- Socialized with Children
- Socialized with Sheep
- Socialized with Goats
- Socialized with Cats
- Socialized with Chickens
- Socialized with Turkeys
- Socialized with Ducks
- Socialized with Horse
- Life Time Support
- Access to Compressive Guide to Raising an LGD
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More Maremma Information
- Maremmas are less likely to roam than other breeds; tend to stay with your livestock & close.
- Maremmas tend to bark less than other LGD breeds like the Great Pyrenees.
- Maremmas tend to dig less than other large breeds of dogs.
- Although considered as a Large Dog Breed, they’re a bit smaller & easier to handle than other LGDs.
- Maremmas are excellent defenders of their flock, pack, family, children & whatever they are meant to protect.
- Maremma dogs are super affectionate.
- Maremmas are amazingly gentle , calm and tolerant of children.
- Maremmas are very “tight-lipped” kind of a breed and do not drool.
Also known as Maemma and Abruzzese Sheepdog, “the Italian dog”, the “white lions” or in Italian “I Leoni Bianchi”, Pastore Maremmano as well as Pastore Abruzzese. These dogs grow a wonderfully beautiful mane that along with their relatively flat head resembles the head of a lion. Confident and stunning; they roam their pasture and their property like kings of their castles. ATTENTIVE to the stock, PROTECTIVE of the stock, and TRUSTWORTHY with the stock. The ideal time for an inexperienced guardian owner to purchase a Maremma is as a recently weaned puppy so that it will bond strongly with its adopted family, its humans, and its territory as it grows. However, this also involves all the antics of puppy-hood; adolescence, and training in the “don’ts” of guardianship – it already knows all of the “do’s” and will develop them on its own if exposed at the right time to appropriate guarding situations. Maremmas become mature, fully developed guardians between a year to two but mostly will start their guarding duties around 6-8 months.
The Pastore Maremmano Abruzzese, Maremma Sheepdog, originated in Italy where it has been used for many centuries as a flock guardian for sheep and goats. It was first imported into the United States for this purpose in the early 1970’s. Since then, the Maremma Sheepdog has continued to increase in number and popularity. You’ll commonly hear them referred to as LGD’s (Livestock Guardian Dogs). The Maremma is a large white or cream colored dog, usually weighing between 70 and 100 pounds and standing 25 to 30 inches tall. It is described in the Breed Standard as being majestic, lively, sturdy, distinguished, intelligent, and courageous without being aggressive. With it’s high trainability traits, it has the ability to bond closely with hoofed livestock, with which it assumes a protective parental attitude, it demonstrate and an aloof awareness as leader of its adopted family, while at the same time readily accepting a secondary role to its bonded humans.- Creamy off-white colour (no other variations or spots allowed)
- Sleepy eyes
- Flat head
- “Lion mane” around the head
- “Tight Lipped” – No drooling
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