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Central Asian or Caucasian

The choice is difficult but depends on what you need.
on Wednesday 05 March 2008
by Gary Sicard

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Before a choice - Caucasian or Central Asian?

This is a question within a question, seen through in two variants. The first - in the sense of " which breed to buy? " We already wrote, that in most cases, the Central Asian is a more appeasable, steady dog, Where the Caucasian differs in that it processes a more explosive character. But the Caucasian is more effective externally and is more reliable as a security guard. We happened to be present at a completely scandalous judicial case, where, to put it mildly, a display of utter tastelessness was seen. After finishing judging the Centrals Asians in the ring, the Slovak expert Judge, who already had amused the public with the grimaces and crawling on all fours, suddenly declared,

" If you want a clever dog, take the Central Asian, if you want the fool - take Caucasian! "This was done right outside the ring, where the Caucasians and their owners were standing. Someone from the crowd of spectators who had surrounded the ring cried out, " And what is the difference? " The expert immediately explained: " The Caucasian will kill at once without a second thought, the Central Asian would climb over a fence, think about it for a seconds and then will kill. " The same voice, carrying over the crowd’s laughter,! asked the same question " So what’s the difference? " This case is an excellent illustration of the chasm of knowledge and understanding foreign to all groups of "experts" of Volkodav. But there is one more value of the question set by us. Is the Caucasian and the Central Asian one breed, or two? On the surface, this question seems strange, as the two breeds are officially registered by the FCI as" the Caucasian sheep-dog " and " the Central Asian sheep-dog ". We shall not repeat, or attempt to reprove, that any they not sheep-dogs in relation to the function of or management of the herd (German, Scottish, Belgian, etc. sheep-dogs), and is instead the shepherd's dogs, which sole job of protecting the herd. This is well documented in current literature by such authoritative experts such as Krasnov, Ajzenberg, Mychko, Belenky and many others. We must be honest with the reader here and relate that the some of the experts count all Volkodav as one breed. And though authors are inclined to divide Volkodav into two breeds, emphasizing their general origin and close relationship, we shall examine each one in more detail. So, there are two tendencies: "separation" and "unifying".
Supporters of the first insist on the underlining distinctions between Caucasians and the Central Asian: the structure of skulls (first of all), coat, colors , and mentality. Considering Volkodav thus, they, at times, are unduly fond of differentiation of intrapedigree (breed types- there are no less than 6 distinct breed types of Centrals Asians and two or three breed types of Caucasians) types, allocating Caucuses, Azerbaijan, Armenian, Georgian, dividing them on long-haired (mountain), transitive and short-haired (steppe or flat), and these in turn on types gergetskih, gorbanskih, Dagestan, etc., Asians Turkmen (alabai), Uzbek, Kazakh, etc. It is probably a fair statement, that industrially, this division provides a basic conditional diversity.
Supporters of "unifying" tendencies (and very authoritative experts adhere to this point of view - experts on Volkodav) essentially name these dogs "Shepherd's dog" or " Volkodav of the Asian origin ". And their arguments too are rather convincing.
We will return to the problems of the official status and classification of Volkodav and near the end of this chapter.

We want to warn beginning "WOLFHOUND DOGGY" of the primitive decision of a problem: if it is shaggy with a tail – it is a Caucasian and if it is shorthaired, without a tail or black – it is a Central Asian. The matter is that Caucasian too frequently stop a tail, at Central Asians the length More sharply hair reaches 8-ie centimeters, and black Caucasian are very popular in Armenia, though from the point of view of composers of the standard Caucasian Ovcharka, it is disqualifying defect!
Translated by
Vadim Boutym
Dave Hull
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