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Livestock Guarding Dogs
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English we have a number of eloquent sayings that summarise this
special issue of Carnivore Damage Prevention News. The most relevant
are "use a thief to catch a thief" or the "poacher turned into a
gamekeeper". Together they describe the use of one carnivore (the
domestic dog) to protect livestock against other carnivores (wolves,
bears, lynx, cheetahs etc). In the face of costly losses to wild
carnivores European livestock herders have bred a wide range of dog
breeds to help protect their flocks. On one hand these dogs reflect
part of our European cultural heritage. On the other hand they
provide an effective tool to help reduce conflicts, and hopefully
increase public acceptance for large carnivores. However, it was a
close call. In the early to mid 20th century the use of these dog
breeds declined, many breeds were on the edge of extinction, and the
knowledge about of how to use them was rapidly becoming lost.
Thankfully, they passed through this bottleneck and are now becoming
used with increasing frequency, both in their European homelands and
in new lands that never developed their own breeds such as Africa,
North America and Scandinavia.
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Livestock Guarding Manual
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Dowload the Livestock Guardian Manual from Bornfree. PDF-File.
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Earliest Domesticated Dogs
Uncovered
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May 8, 2003 — The skulls of two Stone Age dogs believed to be
the earliest known canines on record have been found, according to a
team of Russian scientists. "We suggest that the dogs looked
like present-day Tibetan mastiffs or Caucasian sheep dogs," Sablin
told Discovery News. "The dogs had a much wider palate and shorter
rostrum than Siberian huskies and Great Danes. The reconstructed
withers height is about 70 cm (27.56 inches), therefore the dogs
belonged to a very strange and dangerous heavy hunting/guarding
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Caucasian
Ovcharkas In Moscow - History
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very first post-war show reports date to 1947. Nearly the all main
foundation sires of Moscow COs foundation stock were presented at
that show: KARABASH (owner Medvedev, later – military unit 74390),
KALIF (the kennel of Moscow Society Club of Working Dogs), LORMI (the
kennel of the Central Club of Working Dogs), the son of GROZNY (military
unit 74390) and NORA (owner Glanovskaya), DZHAN (owner Mitrofanov),
FRANT (the kennel of Moscow Society Club of Working Dogs), NORA (owner
Glanovskaya), the daughter of KARABASH and GAMAZ (military unit
74390). DINA (ownerBenetskiy), DINGA (owner Shoshin) and DUMKA (owner
Skachko) – the daughters of KARABASH and KALIFA (owner Moll) - were
at the forefront of the junior group. |
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G.Kirkitskaya: History Of Osman
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OSMAN-2 The pedigree number is №87, № PCWD (Podolsk Club of Working
Dogs) 77222, was born on March 27, 1986 in the Red Star Kennel,
perished on December 15, 1993. G.Kirkitskaya is a well known
Russian breader and judge FCI |
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