Central Asian Ovcharka
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Description: All the Ovcharkas are well-balanced and even-tempered, suspicious of and aggressive toward strangers. However, the temperaments of these four breeds have a lot of features that make these breeds remarkably different from each other. As already noted, the Caucasian and Central Asian Ovcharkas were bred to protect the livestock from large predators, often with no man's assistance, rather than to herd the flocks under the supervision of the shepherd. (Read this real-life story!) This work made them very intelligent (as it comes to problem solving and making decisions) and, at the same time, very independent and strong-willed; they (esp., the Caucasians) are not easily trained for obedience. Typical of these two breeds is a somewhat low activity level with an ability to instantly explode in the minutes of danger. Such a dog can look like a large phlegmatic lazybones to an intruder, until he comes too close to the dog and it's too late to run away. This interesting feature stems from the fact that more active dogs with higher energy consumption rate would not have survived in the conditions of the harsh weather, hard work and scarce feeding, under which these breeds developed. Group: Herding NORMAL SIZE:
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