On Christmas Day, we brought home our newest addition … an eight-week old Anatolian Shepherd Dog. We did decide to name her Ayi.
Quite a lot of howling and yapping the first few days (normal separation anxiety). We have to keep her safe from the goats, cow, and big dogs until they get used to her … so that means being contained in a safe place in the stable while unattended. Last night she was much better. Only a couple episodes of howling for 20 minutes or so.
The first of our animals to bond with her is Belle. One of the big dogs totally ignores her and went on a hunger strike for two days. Our eldest dog is curious, but probably dreading taking on a new charge with so much energy. He’ll come around. The goats are not yet comfortable with a new dog, and Lucy was furious, literally MAD COW. But she is coming around too. We expected this, but are very pleased with how the new puppy is behaving.
Here was the scene yesterday evening:

