Marremma Pups available

Marremma and Marremma x Collie Pups

Our dogs are pets as well as full time guardians to chickens, alpaca and horses on property. Puppies are beautifully colored. The puppies will inherrit the calm, loyal, affectionate, obedient temperatments from their parents.

Marrema X Collie (Lassie) Collie dad is registered purebred, Mum is purebred Maremma. Parents are loyal, affectionate and playful whilst obedient and well trained around horses and chickens.


Marremma x Collie $150-200 Price reduced

Some males and females still available

Born Thursday 13/5/2010, wormed and ready to be adopted

Purebred Marrema from $300 (when available)


Maremmas have short thick muzzles, a broad head with floppy ears. This gives a large puppy appearance than many people find quite endearing. The maremma will regard anything they guard as 'their livestock'. This can include animals, people and even crops.

The Maremma has a temperament that is quite unique. It is necessary to understand this well, in order to correctly evaluate your dogs behaviour, and know if he is showing correct or incorrect behaviours. Sometimes patterns of behaviour worry owners, but prove to be quite typical, even desirable behaviours for the breed. The breed relates to livestock as though they are littermates, and will lick livestock around the mouth as they once did their mother. They have a love for their master, but never a submission or dependence and the breed never shows subservience.

As the Maremma pups grow and mature, they will become aloof, solitary and cling to the livestock (or his charges) whilst other breeds (working breeds in general) run around together 'eyeing' the livestock and attempting to herd them. Maremma pups never develop 'the eye' as they mature and will attentively mind the stock keeping them within a group. These dogs are surely different from any other dog breeds, particularly from all the sheepdogs that have been created by man, to receive instruction and training in order to do their jobs. The way in which the Maremma, these 'white sheepdogs' were and are used have taught him to look after himself, to use his initiative and his brain without waiting for the help of man but will alert man when intervention is required.

Maremmas are instinctive guardians and do not need habitual behavioural training to do their work well. This does not apply to Marrema's used other than for guardians. Use the following simple yet general rules as "Do's & Don'ts" always when raising a Maremma pup as a Livestock Guardian and most of all enjoy.


DO Allow your Maremma to be a full time livestock guardian dog.
DO Allow your Maremma to follow his own instincts.

DO NOT allow your Maremma to play with the livestock. Maremmas may however play with each other.
DO NOT allow humans to play physical or chasing games with your Maremma.
DO NOT allow your Maremma to be in any territory that is not, or will not become its own territory.
DO NOT obedience train your Maremma. (This refers to full training a maremma intended for full time guarding only.)

NEVER strike your Maremma with hand or weapon except as a last resort in a serious dominance conflict.
NEVER call your dog away from his guarding duties.
NEVER interfere unless to save your dog from imminent death.
NEVER pen or chain your Maremma as a punishment or insult.

DO NOT expect too much too soon.

Your Maremma mature's from puppy to full grown guardian duties over a period of one to two years. The successful livestock guardian is the Maremma that stays with the herd because he wants to, not because you want him to. You must evaluate your own personal situation. The way you raise and socialise a maremma pup depends on your situation that you introduce your new maremma to. Many maremmas are living on 'hobby farms' that are less than say 100 acres, and may be of mixed livestock, small and large. The maremma natually becomes more of a general farm and famly guardian happily within these situations and the guarding instinct is not impeded at all.