It's a fairly technical article about the laws in Utah affecting LGDs, but it covers issues that other states and countries face, so there may be some ideas that can be shared among pet owners, livestock dogs owners, ranchers, local law enforcement concerning dog ownership, and other topics. The Readers Comments section has some interesting thoughts on the subject.
My experience with one aspect of this: I was involved with Great Pyrenees Rescue here in Florida and they have faced similar situations. One is the random breeding of GPs and then abandoning the puppies (and sometimes adults) to their fate. I don't know why there are so many GPs in Florida to begin with, but there they are. A GP Rescue member driving thru rural Florida saw 6 GPs tied to a fence, with no shade or water. The GP Rescue person stopped and loaded the dogs into her truck and went on her way. It was as if the breeder expected this, that he or she knew someone would take the dogs before they died of dehydration, heat stroke, etc.
That solution was great for the irresponsible breeders--they didn't have to go to the expense of caring for their dogs, like spaying or neutering them, buying food, building a kennel, training them, or making the effort to find them new homes, or even euthanizing them.
The GP Rescue found them good homes. So everyone was happy--the lazy, irresponsible breeders, GP Rescue members, and the new owners of these rescue dogs.
It's gotten to the point that GP Rescue just expects this type of things to happen and doesn't waste energy being indignant about it. They don't have any way to stop it so they just cope the best they can.
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.”
Dr. Buzády Tibor. 2002. Dogs of Hungary. Translated by Bernard Adams. Budapest, Hungary: Nóra Kiadó. P. 100.
*(and now also in North America, South America and Australia)
