Monday, June 26, 2023

Kuvasz "cousin" -- Akbash in Türkiye

Bircan Tepe in Türkiye shares his photo of two of his Akbash. Their ear flaps and tails are in their natural condition, rather than being cropped in the ancient traditional manner.
 


 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. 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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