Thanks to the Georgian Journal for this photo and information.
This area is in the Caucasus Mountains in the nation of Georgia near the Russian border.
Also see the story from 2017 about the dogs in the same area: www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/10/the-shepherds-of-the-tusheti-mountains/544514/
About the family of Livestock Guardian Dogs...
“To this day flocks are guarded in the hills of Asia, Europe and Africa* by powerful, robust dogs that are neither clumsy nor pacific. Despite the distances that separate them these breeds have much in common, and the Kuvasz is a member of this extended sheepdog family.”
From: Dr. Tibor Buzády, Dogs of Hungary, trans. Bernard Adams, Budapest, Hungary: Nóra Kiadó, 2002, p. 90.
*(and today also in North America, South America and Australia)
Also see the story from 2017 about the dogs in the same area: www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/10/the-shepherds-of-the-tusheti-mountains/544514/
About the family of Livestock Guardian Dogs...
“To this day flocks are guarded in the hills of Asia, Europe and Africa* by powerful, robust dogs that are neither clumsy nor pacific. Despite the distances that separate them these breeds have much in common, and the Kuvasz is a member of this extended sheepdog family.”
From: Dr. Tibor Buzády, Dogs of Hungary, trans. Bernard Adams, Budapest, Hungary: Nóra Kiadó, 2002, p. 90.
*(and today also in North America, South America and Australia)