Princess

Princess is a Great Pyrenees that my ex-husband purchased at the same time he purchased another dog, a Great Dane mix named Scooby; this was about ten years ago. His intention was that Princess would guard his goats and Scooby could keep her company. I have no idea why he thought he needed goats but he had recently moved to the country and I guess he thought that is what he needed to do. Well, Princess proved to be a very bad guard dog (or a very smart dog depending on how you look at it), the goats were all killed by a wolf hybrid that lived down the road from them and shortly after that, my ex decided he had had enough of country life and moved back to the suburbs. A day or two after the move, my daughter found out that he had left his dogs behind...I have a word for people like that and I cannot believe I was actually married to one.

My daughter and I went to retrieve the dogs the day she found out about them and we were hoping that we found them before something happened to them. We were thrilled when we found them still waiting on the porch for someone to come home. We put these two very large dogs in the cab of the truck and drove home.

Scooby found a wonderful new home shortly after that but my daughter was very attached to Princess and persuaded me to keep her as our own dog. Honestly, she is a pretty bad guard dog, she has a nice scary deep loud bark but when a stranger actually comes into the house, she hides behind me. Princess is getting a little old a cranky now but she is definitely a member of the family and we love her regardless.