Monday, February 23, 2015

Kuvasz "cousins" - Photos from Central Asia

Dan Russia Facebook page shares these compelling photos.
This photo is from Kurdistan in Iraq.
This photo is from Kurdistan in Iraq.
This Anatolian lives in Syria.
This white LGD (above and below) lives and works in Kyrgyzstan. 
Thanks to Dan Russia Facebook page for these amazing photos of our LGDs doing the work they've done since ancient times.


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.