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To: Jeff Chandler

One of my neighbors has two of those that guard his goats when they are in the pasture-they are very friendly to humans they know, and have nearly knocked me off my feet leaning into me to be petted-isn’t it called an Anatolian Shepherd?


24 posted on 10/05/2015 12:04:40 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've giot to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Texan5

Anatolian Shepherd Dog. They were bred to guard flocks and herds in Turkey, to go out away from the flock, seek out and kill predators before they could prey upon the flock. Two or three of these can easily fend off wolves.


25 posted on 10/05/2015 12:10:03 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Step away from the Koolade.)
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To: Texan5

Could be; or maybe a Kangal, they are pretty closely related


56 posted on 10/05/2015 8:08:00 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Texan5

Anatolians are bad ass dogs.

The heathens in the middle east “pit fight” them.
[a pox upon them]

They are one of the breeds that will take out wolves.

Borzois and Irish Wolfhounds are two others.

Then there’s Tibetan Mastiffs, Kuvasz, Caucasian Ovcharka [somewhat like having a freight train full of daggers hitting you], Turkish Kangals

*However*, wolves work in packs and a single dog is almost certainly a dead dog.

For anyone whose heart may be bleeding for the ‘poor wolves’, Google “wolves kill dogs” or “coyotes kill dogs”.

You were warned.

For myself, looking at those photos and thinking of my own dogs, it would be a bloody war, first.


61 posted on 10/05/2015 11:06:19 PM PDT by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away...)
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