Hubert in Poland shares his photo of a mother and young puppy. The slate gray coloring distinctive to the Kuvasz shows in the mother's claws, and the puppy's nose and lips. The fur of course is white.
“The skin has a lot of pigment, and is slate grey. The nose, the eyelids and the lips are always black....The pads are dark grey, the nails slate grey....White is the colour of this breed.”
From: Pál Sárkány and Imre Ócsag. 1986. Hungarian Dog Breeds. 2nd ed. Budapest, Hungary: Corvina Kiadó. (Orig. pub. 1977.) Pp. 103, 104.
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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