Tuesday, February 10, 2015

"Correct behavior" - LGDs at work in the Alps protect sheep from hikers - video in English

 This sign refers to the precautions hikers should take in the Swiss Alps when encountering working LGDs. Click here for the 5:46 video in English:
  LGDs protecting sheep must deal with hikers in Alps

Thanks to Cornelia in Austria for sharing this. 

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. Buzády Tibor, Dogs of Hungary, trans. Bernard Adams, Budapest, Hungary: Nóra Kiadó, 2002, p. 90.

*[and now also in North America, South America and Australia]