Friday, August 9, 2019

Kuvasz and Šarplaninac puppies

Szep Ábrahám of Kuvasz-Őr! Kuvasz-Guard! in Hungary shares this photo of himself with his Kuvasz puppy and his Šarplaninac puppy who will become working partners on his farm handling the sheep.
Click here for info:  Wikipedia - Sarplaninac

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)