Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Ovid the Snow Cannon

Claudia W. in Germany shares this photo of Peter's Kuvasz, Ovid the Snow Cannon, leaping through the air in Austria.

This photo showcases the pigment of the Kuvasz skin:

“The colour of the skin under the hair is also slate grey, best seen on the belly, where the hair is less thick than on the rest of the body.”

From: Pál Sárkány and  Imre Ócsag, Hungarian Dog Breeds, Budapest, Hungary: Corvina Kiadó, 1977, 2nd ed. 1986, p. 101.





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)


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