Thursday, January 14, 2016

Kuvasz "cousin" - CO and sheep

Kavkasiuri Nagazi in the nation of Georgia shares this photo of a Caucasian Ovartchka, or Georgian Mountain Dog, with a sheep flock.


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 now also in North America, South America and Australia)