Tag: Caucasian ovcharka

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The authentic Caucasian Ovcharka or Caucasian Shepherd dog, is a livestock guarding dog of greater than average size and power possessing a robust constitution and exhibiting an inherent distrust of strangers.

While they are known to be very aggressive to strangers animal or human; they are also known to be fiercely loyal to members of their family ‘pack’ especially children. 

The Caucasian Ovcharka is indigenous to the mountain regions of the Georgian, Armenian and Azerbaijani Union Republics; the Kabardino-Balkar, Daghestan and Kalmyk Autonomous Republics, and the steppe regions of the northern Caucasus and the Astrakhan district.

For hundreds of years the Caucasian Ovcharka (Mountain Dog) has functioned as a guarding dog, herding dog, and historically as a fighting dog.

Their faithfulness, protectiveness, and ferocity when called upon to defend is legendary.

The breed’s intrepidity, hardiness, and tolerance for different temperatures and climates have made it possible to utilize the Caucasian Ovcharka (Mountain Dog) in almost all the regions of the Soviet Union.

Type varies geographically throughout the mountain range, and also varies according to the purpose for which the dogs were utilized. Generally, dogs of the transcaucasus regions are more massively built, and long coated, while those found in the steppe regions have a somewhat rangier build, are leggier, and are often shorthaired.

Caucasian Ovcharka dogs weigh between 135-220lbs!

While NOT A CUDDLE DOG despite looking like huge teddy bears. These dogs are KNOWN TO BE VERY AGGRESSIVE IF NOT TREATED WITH A FIRM HAND.

They are known as protectors of the working breed who will HAPPILY fight and take down any thing- humans, wolves, even BEARS!

 In certain parts of the Russian region, they were bred specifically to take down full grown bears.