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| About 1900. Huge mastiff although it seems, despite standing, well proportioned, of harmonious and natural forms and features. The photo is made on the island of Mallorca, estate S'Estaca (La Estaca) owned by Archduke Luis Salvador of Austria |
"The main function of the mastiff in the whole world is the defense and guarding of the livestock of vermin and everything that supposes a threat....It is also that our mastiffs are enormously similar to those of their race in the rest of the world, to the rest of the mastiffs."
From: The Mastine in Other Countries
From: The Mastine in Other Countries
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“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.”
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| 1930. Another photo with more detail of the same herd. Look at the traditional dress of the shepherds. In the legend of the photo they explain us that in the Valley of Alcudía pastors of Segovia were mentioned. It is also known that cattle came from Soria and other places. The Alcudia Valley must have been an authentic garden of mastiff castes, like few others in the world. |
“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.
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Thanks to Gábor Atkári and KEP Kuvasz + LGD/Pásztorkutyák for sharing this.