Buzogany Agnes Farm Putnaszeme in Hungary shares this photo of her 3-month-old female puppy CAO learning how to guard cattle.
CAO stands for Caucasian Aboriginal Ovartchka.* Her ears are cropped in the traditional way.
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*Click here to see Facebook group: facebook.com/groups/
"This is the Caucasian Ovcharka Preservation Society (COPS). It functions as both an educational forum and a watchdog organization on behalf the parent club for the breed, the Caucasian Shepherd Society of America (CaSSA). Our end is to ensure that the dogs being registered through AKC/FSS are purebred Caucasians, and if they are not, to petition the AKC to refuse the dogs registration. We simply want to preserve the breed that evolved over 2000 years to be what it is today. Pictures of purebred dogs of both Aboriginal Style and the Modern Style, as well as discussion on the various breed subtypes will serve to educate society and breeders, alike."
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.
*[There are LGDs protecting flocks nowadays also in Australia, North America and South America.]