brookcove
Posted : 8/4/2007 8:38:15 PM
OK, I've got a wild and crazy one:
Anatolian and GSD. Or, Tatra/Anatolian and GSD. Or, fill in the blank with a shepherdy looking livestock guardian, and GSD. There's a TON of guard dog breeders up where you describe, exactly because of the wolves. Even cattle farmers use guard dogs. Even small farms keep three to six dogs because of the severe predator pressure.
It's a terrible, but kind of neat problem, actually. It's nice that they don't go poisoning and shooting them, or at least most people don't, anymore (yes, it's illegal, but when did that ever stop a really determined farmer?). The big livestock guardian dog project that introduced them to this country, twenty years ago, was done around there.
Anyway, I thought Anatolian the second I saw that face. I want an Anatolian/Maremma female for my next guard dog puppy. Or possibly Anatolian/Tatra. Something just a little more aggressive than my big mushy old girl.