Quaking Canopy Juliet Capulet

Quaking Canopy Juliet Capulet
DOB 3/30/2020

LA 2024: GVVE 87
See Juliet on ADGA Genetics

1st freshener in 2022

This is a doe who we (being all of us at Quaking Canopy which is 9 resident hoomans in case ya didn’t know) all recognize didn’t get the best shot at living up to everything she could have. She was attacked by a failed LGD puppy when she was just a few months old. So she’s a lot smaller, and a lot more spoiled, and we freshened her much later than we typically would - but heck, we were just thrilled she survived and we ever even got to see her freshen. She spent 6 months in the house regrowing skin and hair and gained the IRONIC nickname…D.O.G.

So she’s a lot smaller, and a lot more spoiled, and we freshened her much later than we typically would - but heck, we were just thrilled she survived and we ever even got to see her freshen. She sure did not disappoint with a gorgeous, socked on udder that is very in line with what we’ve come to expect from her sire. Her dam, Josephine, has such an amazing and productive udder - but I absolutely would have loved to have added more fore extension and even just a little more rear extension when viewed from the side. Juliet absolutely brings those structural traits home with her udder that is otherwise very much her dam’s. I just love this little doe.

For 2024 we repeated this breeding, pairing Josephine to Dexter. Josie had 2 does and a buck. All 3 remain here at Quaking Canopy.

A bit more about Juliet’s story….

She managed to wedge herself behind the bars of a hay feeder, so the attacker only managed to grab muscle and skin tissue between vertical bars. But he did a lot of damage and she has pocked scaring as well as notable changes to her front end, shoulders, and her gate as a result. She grew slower and smaller than anything we would have anticipated, but she healed and she grew.

Truthfully, we are all dog people and know our LGDs are worth their weight in gold. The last thing we would want anyone to take away from this story is that they should not consider livestock guardian dogs.

In fact…would you like to know what saved her life (and the many other kids in the pen with her) when the 9 month old failed LGD puppy jumped the 6 foot fence into the junior kid run and decided kids were game? An LGD. Tupelo. Her name was Tupelo. She would spend many more years with us protecting our does and their kids, always in with the most vulnerable because she scaled multiple fences and went through 2 stalls to stop the attacker in with the goat kids. And she did. Good LGDs have made farming possible. Tupelo and her sister, her daughter, her sister’s daughter have made farming possible for us.

The dog who failed should have never been on a farm, he was severely misrepresented to us by a club that to this day claims to represent a breed from a small country about the size of Maine that no longer has any significant income from farming so it’s population breeds fighting dogs from what’s left of it’s LGD breed. That’s where money is, so that’s where dog breeding has gone. Fact, science, realism, location, access, truth - all lost in the name of a few grand and dumping dogs on unsuspecting farmers in the US. We personally wound up with this specific dog because he and several others were flown over with Parvo and few were willing to step up and pay vet bills, let alone quarantine and rehab the survivors.

Do consider livestock guardian dogs. But also do source them extremely carefully.

Side Bar: If you’re super curious, we have progressive photos of her progress as she healed! It was gnarly, with vertebrae and a full shoulder blade visible when she was first attacked. If you can believe it, two other little doe kids also hid with her (Honey and S’mores, now owned by friends) and survived as well.