It does start out by saying, "they're man's best friend, but increasingly they're playing a new role--one that could have a real impact on people's livelihoods," while we know it's not a "new" role!
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"At Cheetah Outreach, a conservation organization based in Western Cape province [in South Africa], dogs have defended against leopards, brown hyenas, black-backed jackals, caracal, lions, cheetahs and even baboons...."
"After 230 Kangal LGDs were deployed in the Bushveld and the Kalahari Bushveld wildernesses, depredation rates fell by an astonishing 95 to 100 percent...."
We love our LGDs! They help people all around the world!
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.
"At Cheetah Outreach, a conservation organization based in Western Cape province [in South Africa], dogs have defended against leopards, brown hyenas, black-backed jackals, caracal, lions, cheetahs and even baboons...."
"After 230 Kangal LGDs were deployed in the Bushveld and the Kalahari Bushveld wildernesses, depredation rates fell by an astonishing 95 to 100 percent...."
We love our LGDs! They help people all around the world!
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)