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Maple, Greyson and Wynter are Maremma/Pyrenees sheep guardian dogs who can often be found playing together like this. Maple and Greyson are pretending to attack Wynter, but it's all in good fun as these three dogs share an incredibly close bond. Check out how spectacular that sunrise is in the background!

Maple tries to make herself a comfy place to rest, but has to put up with the young dogs wrestling and playing all around her. You gotta admire such patience!

Check out these livestock guardian dogs (LGD's) having some rough play time. It's a nice balance to their very serious duties to the farm.

Peggy the little Highland heifer and Maple a Maremma/Pyrenees mix Livestock Guardian are very curious about each other, but suddenly decide now is not the time to meet. Perfect exits!

Wynter doesn't really want to play at the moment, but Lochie is insistent, trying to get Wynter wound up enough with his strange squeak-growls to lure her outside for a more vigorous playtime.

Three-year-olds Wynter and Greyson play with their mother, Maple, while the sheep they protect from predators are unconcerned about the snarling play-fighting antics of their guard dogs.

Greyson, one of the farm dogs, knows he's not supposed to take things from the kitchen and looks a bit guilty as he reluctantly allows his prize to be taken back!

I'm not sure why she picked this spot. There are lots of nice grassy places to have calves, but Pepper always seems to know what she's doing,... and what do I know about having a calf anyway? Maple, one of our Livestock Guardian Dogs gets a healthy and tasty treat before the cow gets up. It's very common for them to help clean up after animals are born, but cows don't really like the dogs too close to their newborns and the dogs usually know to be calm and careful. Macey, and older sister of this new calf watches intently as things proceed. They'll be part of the same family group within the fold.

There’s something about a snow day that warms up our hearts. Watching this playful calf having a blast in the snow has brightened our day! Watch as Holly, the one-week-old Scottish Highland and Jersey Cross Heifer, experiences her first outdoor adventure and gets the perfect chance to test them legs out while running in the snow! Footage shows the cheeky animal, blissfully running around in the deep snow, having an absolute blast throughout the white blanket cover. It is adorable to witness how happy this calf is to be <a href="https://rumble.com/v4i029-dogs-thrilled-with-first-ever-snow-experience.html" target="_blank">frolicking in the snow</a>, resembling a kid that has just been let out of school. Hilarious! This heartwarming clip shows the purest expression of joy we have ever seen of a young animal playing in the snow. Turns out animals are having a blast when white blanket covers the ground, too. Watch how ecstatic she gets, playing in the snowflaky goodness! Watch as the happy calf plays in the white cover, tumbling and rolling in the deep snow, utterly enjoying the snow, running on the white fluffy blanket. Adorable! We have never seen something like this before! The calf is jumping for joy and running around with excitement! This is the first time this young animal experiences snow and her reaction is absolutely priceless! Watching this adorable footage of a calf thoroughly enjoying her snow-covered habitat has definitely made our day! While seeing it for the first time and introducing themselves with the white glitter, animals can go completely nuts over it! That is the case with this young calf in this heartwarming video as she decides to get a full-blown <a href="https://rumble.com/v4hkv1-ruby-rose-the-miniature-dachshunds-first-time-in-snow.html" target="_blank">snow experience</a>! Adorable!

This little tractor is loved by all, especially Rory the Scottish Highland bull. He heads straight for it so he can use the teeth to scratch his back and head. Awesome!

Maple a Maremma/Pyrenees Livestock Guardian dog prefers to trim her own dew claws. All our dogs wear their claws down patrolling the pastures and digging so that except for their dew claws I rarely have to clip them. I've never had to clip Maple's dew claws, and now I've discovered why. She does her own.

Often when this farm owner puts hay out for the cattle and sheep, the dogs love to jump in and have tussle in it. They eventually let the sheep have it!

Something to post on social media when you detect a falsehood. Plus a running chicken. Staring Rory and Dickens the chicken.

The cattle have been sneaking across the brook from their summer pasture to Malcolm MacRae's meadows. The problem turned out to be the solar powered fence charger. Fixed now (I hope).

We have the greatest cats for training puppies to be respectful of Felines. Here you can see how patient Inky is with these little white flock guardian puppies. They have so much interest in everything and everything is a learning experience for them. These dogs generally don't have a strong drive to chase things unless it suddenly runs away or does anything that might resemble a play run when they are young like this. That's why it's invaluable to have calm gentle cats around as these puppies grow to weaning age and beyond. Our adult dogs are really great around cats and therefore these cats that have never been threatened or seriously chased by a dog are great for teaching puppies to be respectful to their kind.

The puppies look up to the adult digs and learn a great deal from them. Here, Maple wades into one of the pools we recently made as part of a system that connects several springs together making a steam through the barnyard. Flock guardian breeds like Maple and her grandpuppes don't usually like swimming but they do like to wade in up to their chest sometimes just to cool off and get a deep drink. They seem to not want to get their tails wet especially. These little nine-week old pups from a litter by Maple's daughter Wynter are watching their grandma dog with wonder and gather around her as she makes her way out of the pool.

Meet Holly. She was born about a minute before this video was made and now her mother, Bonnie is drying her off with vigorous licking which also helps stimulate Holly to get her muscles working to get up and get a drink of milk. Bonnie is our family milk cow and is half Scottish Highland and half Jersey. She's a very good milker and with the Highland mix is like a 4x4, Winterized milk cow and much more tolerant of our Cape Breton weather than a regular Jersey Cow. That makes Holly a 3/4 Highland and 1/4 Jersey, and we'll probably keep her as a back-up milk cow.

Maple loves her puppies forever. She is now 10 years old and has had 2 litters of puppies; and 4 year old Wynter is one of her daughters that we kept as a working sheep guardian along with her brother Greyson. Mother dogs often do this love nibbling/grooming behavior with their young puppies, but Maple continues to do it into her puppies' adulthood. Wynter has no complaints and will often lie down in front of Maple and roll onto her back to get attention like this.

Maple in the front and especially Wynter in the back seat, are very happy to see Kate after a 3 week university program. Wynter gives her great big dog smiles when she's happy to see someone.

My daughter was looking after the barn for me this morning. These are two lambs that have to be fed by bottle, so they are very happy to see her. Maple, a Livestock Guardian Dog checks in on the fun too.

Rory, our Highland bull is ready to comment on things being said leading up to the US election, and beyond.

These Flock Guardian puppies are playing with their uncle Greyson who has a piece of bark from a big old Maple tree that blew down by the barn in the last storm. We don't breed our dogs very often, only about every five years or so in order to have overlapping generations of dogs in the pack that protects our sheep and farm in general from coyotes and other predators. Unlike the way some Livestock Guardian Dogs are utilized on farms and ranches, our dogs are home companions as well as working dogs, and for that reason we like to make sure our puppies are well socialized with people as well as all the other animals on the farm. On a small farm of the scale we operate we don't need the dogs to be with the livestock twenty-four seven. They come and go from the house and always let us know if and when there's something to be concerned about outside. In this video, Greyson who is the brother of the mother of these puppies, plays with them gently as well as teaching them how to be appropriate around other dogs. This kind of interaction between a gentle adult dog and these puppies is very important in their growth in terms of later behavior. In general, puppies that are naturally weaned by the mother dog and who have other well behaved adult dogs around to interact and learn from make for much more stable and well behaved dogs as they grow up.

I was creating a pool near a spring beside our house when I misjudged the bank and slide sideways and tipped over into the pool. Diesel engines don't like being on their sides or upside-down because the oil or other fluids flow up into the cylinders so not knowing what else to do I increased the throttle hoping the oil wouldn't stall it out before I could figure out what I should do. I had the camera set up previously to take a time-lapse video of the pond being made, so I can eventually put that up as well, showing the tip-over at the end...in fast motion. I decided to try to get out myself thinking that if I called for help maybe too much damage would be done with the machine on it's side in the water and I was worried about oil spillage as well if left too long. At one point I had to hop out to retrieve my glasses case which was floating in the pool. I hd my prescription sunglasses on, but the sun was going down and my dark glesses were making it difficult to see what I was doing. Thank goodness I spotted my regular glasses floating near the bucket along with a few other things that fell out when I tipped over. I'm sure my many mistakes will be pointed out, please go ahead so I can learn. I'm fairly new to using one of these machines with only about 300 hours experience ...mostly just moving manure around or putting in fence-posts. This was a challenge I wasn't sure I could manage, but somehow did. The camera reset before I got out of the pool, but the part of how I got out is shown in video number Three

I swear I don't set this stuff up, I just lug the camera around a lot and point it at some of the stuff that's happening around me while I muddle through the day. Here's a brief moment of interaction between Sybil the VERY dog-friendly cat, and Magnus, a puppy learning to be cat-friendly. You can see a cute little circle of life sort of thing by looking back in the videos on my Rumble.com channel to find a couple where Wynter, the mother of the puppy in this video, plays with Sybil very gently when she was just a kitten only a couple of days after I found her abandoned beside the road and decided that 4 cats was now our new absolute maximum of cats to have here. There will not be a new absolute maximum after this.

This is a continuation of the earlier video called "Sybil teaches Magnus a bit about the ways of cats."