Would you rent to someone with a Great Pyrenees doggie?

I looked it up and I would love to hug and pet it but I do not know if it would be a good idea to have one in my rental.

It appears that they have 2 coats and shed a lot. They also have a large bark that might disturb the neighbors, that might be a good thing in this neighborhood, grins....

It also says that they are aggressive to other breeds that are not part of there family.

I do not have any experience with these dogs so I thought I would ask as some of you may know or rent to them.

How old is it? Big dogs don't live long.

Had a dog with the two coat thing. Yes, they shed. But my son's short-haired white and brown cattle dogs actually are far worse - the hair is kind of sharp and actually sticks into fabric like soft needles. Vacuuming doesn't touch it.

How old is it? Big dogs don't live long.

Had a dog with the two coat thing. Yes, they shed. But my son's short-haired white and brown cattle dogs actually are far worse - the hair is kind of sharp and actually sticks into fabric like soft needles. Vacuuming doesn't touch it.

Probably not.

The breed is genetically programed to stand and bark all night long. That was part of their method of protecting their flock, which is what they were bred to do.

Maybe if the dog was raised as a pet, it has been well trained and trained not to bark, but I never trust what tenants say about their care and feeding of pets, and, as a generalization, tenants are not good about training their dogs to behave with manners.

I don't mind so much about the dog hair. Anything that can be cleaned up easily after the tenant leaves is not a problem. Hair just vacuums up. Hair on their furniture leaves when they leave.

My carpet cleaner gets out doggy body odor easily so as long as it isn't pee damage, that doesn't bother me either.

Coming back to mention, you have to wonder about the judgement of a tenant who gets a dog that size. His thought process isn't so good. Unless maybe he is a home owner who has sold his house and moving to a rental and he already had the dog.

Oregon said exactly what I was thinking.

I turned down a recommended qualified tenant due to having a giant Mastiff dog. They may make great pets. I don’t care. I don’t want an animal that weighs as much as the people and that slobbers a lot in one of my well maintained places. I can’t relate to the mindset of someone who finds it appropriate to have such a large animal living inside a house with them.

I wouldn't. It's just too big.

My friend has had several to guard her livestock. She loves them, and they do their job well. On days when she hosts open houses for their church groups to come ‘spend a day on a farm’, the livestock guard dogs are kept penned up, well away from guests. But the beagles are allowed to mingle.

Having said that, she did have one livestock guard dog that she always let families interact with, as he had a great personality for families. She also had him sire some litters, and the pups had his great family-friendly personality. So, could be the bloodlines that make one doggy great in a neighborhood, and others of the same breed, not so great.

Then again, I recall my days of working on a horse farm as a teenager, where several breeding stallions were kept. Generally, kids, and smaller persons were not allowed to handle the stallions. But, there was one who was phenomenal with everyone, and the owner’s preteen daughter even showed him. But, when the actual owner showed up, the horse seemed to become a different creature. That horse hated that owner.

In addition to what everyone else mentioned, both positive and things that maybe of concern, big dogs make big poops.

Will the owner be reliable to pick up after their dog?

If the dog is walked, will the owner be reliable to pick up after the dog so neighbors don't go out and find big piles on their property?

I thought you were talking the mountains in Portugal, I am hoping to go there and enlarge the shipping port to allow the car manufacturing to come back from China.

I used to like riding my bike on the edge of my town. Except some people's livestock guardian dogs would view bicyclists on the streets as intruders, and would cross several acres in order to chase us off.

I stopped bicycling for a long time...

So in addition to the double-coated shedding, they also have a high probability of being very (defensive) (territorial) (aggressive), because that's what they're bred to do as their job, to protect their livestock from miscellaneous predators of the two-footed, four-footed, and winged kinds.

Thank you all for the replies.

I think I will pass on this one just for good measure.