Thursday, November 12, 2020

Kuvasz "cousin" -- the Alabai: a video from Turkmenistan


The Alabai, a Livestock Guardian Dog, is given a monument similar to monuments made for military heroes.

Click here to see the video (:47): 

A little girl holding a puppy is beside the man in the hat in the center of the video.

Also see: kuvaszklips/alabai-kuvasz-cousin

kuvaszklips/central-asian-shepherd-dog


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.” 

Dr. Buzády Tibor. 2002. Dogs of Hungary. Translated by Bernard Adams. Budapest, Hungary: Nóra Kiadó. P. 100.

*(and now also in North America, South America and Australia)


Click here to see the Kuvasz History Klips blog!