This breed of dog is a strong, extremely hardy and unpretentious. Caucasian Shepherd is incorruptible and angry to strangers, at the same time capable of boundless love and affection to the owner and his family. This dog is known by a daily 50-mile crossing of the flock lives whole the year in the open air under all climatic conditions and with a minimum of food. Caucasian Shepherd able to produce their own food itself, hunting rodents, etc. It’s a dog with a very stable psyche, excellent health an athlete by nature and confident in its strength. It is not a slave, but an equal partner, ready to respond to your every need and mood. As a rule, their decisions are faithful and often made independently. These shepherds uncompromising and incorruptible protect the property, which belongs to their owner, regardless of whether owner is at home or absent. We need to remember and to know that the brave Caucasian Shepherd, as a rule, comes to grips with the offender, who find themselves in a protected area, without barking. This is not always convenient, as a guard dog must first raise the alarm, warning the owner or the protection of the invasion of outsiders.
Here are the places, where the one of the oldest breeds of dogs- Caucasian Shepherd has spread – Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Ossetia, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, etc.
This dog is a massive dog above-average growth. The height of males isn’t below 69 cm, bitches – not less than 64 cm, head is massive, broad skull and strongly developed cheekbones. The forehead is broad, flat, in the center with a small groove. The muzzle is massive, blunt, shorter than the length of the forehead, with dry, thick, close fitting lips. Eyes are oval, deep-set, obliquely set, small, dark brown, the expression of a careful and distrustful of strangers.
The neck is powerful, short, set at an angle of 30 – 40 degrees to the back line. Chest is wide, deep, powerful, reaching to the elbows, or even lower. Back is broad, straight and strong. Loins is wide, convex, gradually turning to the rump. The tail is sickle-shaped or ring, highly planted. Gait is free, unhurried. Characteristic of gait – slow trot or heavy, but fast gallop. Coat is straight, coarse, with a strongly developed undercoat of a brighter tone. There are 2 kinds of Caucasian Shepherds: longhaired and shorthaired.
We can distinguish several types of Caucasian Shepherd Dog: Georgian, Armenian, Azeri, Dagestan and Kabardino-Balkaria and Kalmyk. There are some differences among them; in the type of constitution, in color, length and quality of wool. The best type of the Shepherds is Georgian, because they are the largest, with a strong backbone of a powerful, correct, a typical head. Solid colors and long hair make these dogs especially impressive and magnificent. Azeri type of Caucasian Shepherd Dog is divided into two subtypes: the mountain (close to the Georgian type) and steppe – with a more elongated head, short hair and larger feet. Red color with a darker mask is typical for this kind of dogs. This type is similar to the Armenian, Georgian, but these dogs are little smaller and have less powerful bone structure, also with long hair. Dagestan shepherd is strong, rough constitution, with well developed bone structure and short or medium length hair. Color varied: light-gray and reddish hues, red, yellow, white, brown, brindle.
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Monday, March 29th, 2010progeny wolves
Monday, March 29th, 2010
There is no consensus about the origin of man’s best friend – dogs. Archaeological findings have shown that dogs existed on Earth already 25-30 million years ago. Thus, it can be argued that during the so-called Cenozoic era, there was farm animals like dogs. The scientific name of this animal – Cynodesmus. As a result of evolution, which has lasted millions of years, there was an interim wolf similar sort – Tomarctus, who became the ancestor of the wolf, jackal, fox, coyote, and only canine.
The man tame wolf became to an animal called a dog. This process occurs in several parts of the world at the same time, approximately 12 thousand years ago. The remains of dogs, founded in the mountains of Idaho, as well as in Europe, Asia and South America, belong to the same historical era. The friendship between man and dog has started long time ago. A dog accompanies man always and everywhere: in wartime and in peacetime, in wealth and poverty, in art, hunting, sports, scientific research, etc. For this consistency an English philosopher, not accidentally, wishing to pay tribute to them, called the dogs “honorable human beings”.
Dog’s fight
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010There are the following dog’s fighting breeds: American Staffordshire terrier, Bull Terrier, American Pit Bull, which are descended from the bulldog and the mastiff. At the same time there are also no fighting breed dogs: German Shepherd Dog, Central Asian Shepherd Dog, fox terrier, Caucasian Shepherd Dog. Comparative analysis of these two branches and the foundation was laid in the subject report, as well as an experiment, which was conducted earlier.
Here is the experiment, mentioned above; a dog was held on a leash by his owner and then appeared an “incentive” for about 4 meters (a man, a ball, other toys, dog, etc.).The whole point of this experiment is that researcher followed the reaction of the dog. So non fighting dog breeds reacted differently to “incentive” depending on gender, breed, age, situation, etc., but in general these dogs were quiet. The quietest dog’s breed was German Shepherd. Fighting breeds behaved absolutely opposite way. They didn’t react to the appearance of man, but reacted to the appearance of another dog with barking or attacking a subject they have always responded to consistently. A special aggression was caused by the other dogs; even some were simply unmanageable and were ready just to devour his potential victim.
Fighting dogs guard the territory, which they imagine as their own and of course by the appearance of displeasing to them object, they are ready to attack. Fighting breeds dog attack always comes without warning or permit from a position of strength and aggression.
Non fighting breed usually growls, barks, stands on straightened legs, rocks preventing the enemy. So this warning is very eloquent and understandable to all people and animals that live next to the dogs. Fighting dogs behave in a diametrically opposite way. They crawl up to the victim (especially if it is a big dog) without growling, and suddenly pounce on it. In the animal world the attack on the brethren isn’t so widespread, so the behavior of fighting dogs is very abnormal.
The ancestors of fighting breed were taken in England, where fighting with them were fun, furthermore people could make money on their fights. Dogs were fighting not only with each other, but with the bulls, donkeys, lions and sometimes won. The winners were selected for further breeding. Fighting dogs were always fighting alone, therefore there wasn’t ability to communicate with the other dogs. But this fact developed the skills such as courage, cruelty, aggressiveness, cunning. They attack dogs indiscriminately, whether a puppy or an adult female dog – all of them are equal in this regard. There’s also Puppy Dog fighting breed, which inherited all the signs, mentioned above.
Staffordshire breed is closer to the most common breeds of dogs, but they can’t form flocks, because they absolutely can’t get along with the other dogs. It’s seldom that the dog, which belongs to fighting breeds, doesn’t grow aggressive, but it depends on the hosts. Rarely are those who are ready to make all possible efforts directed towards the education of normal dogs.
Games with dogs
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010We can make the following assumption; dogs are the most playful among the all pets, they constantly feel the need of the owner’s attention and his care, and the best method for providing attention to them is a game, regardless of breed or age of a dog. Dogs are born to be predators, they will never become someone’s prey, but in those moments when they are lacked in the opportunity to live in their natural habitat and hunt, they took the games themselves. It’s interesting that the game is an integral part of any dog, because they can develop, move, gain confidence and so on. If such an animal deprived of this possibility, it will “fade” very soon, may lose appetite, become ill or even lose the ability to reproduce offspring.
There are different games for dogs. Particularly you can use special toys for dogs.
About sizes of dog’s toys; shouldn’t be very small, because otherwise the dog could easily swallow them, which is a negative impact on health. The same applies to their forms, toys should not have any sharp edges, so that your pet avoid injury. The best toys for puppies and adult dogs can become a special rubber balls and bones, which they can chew. Conventional balls are not suitable, as any dog will break them in seconds.