The Central Asian Ovcharka
(Sredneasiatskaia Ovcharka)
is a big Molossian
originally used for the guardianship
and the defence of the cattle
in areas where the prevalent
activity has always been the stock-raising.
For the F.C.I. (International Kennel Klub)
the Central Asian Ovcharka is "a big size dog, with a strong and robust typology,
with a bold and rather aggressive character
with strangers, not much exacting
and that easily fits itself to different
climatic situations (this characteristic
allows a very wide utilization
of the breed in the different
regions of the Central Asia)".
Although this breed is not much known
in Italy, it is slowly but inexorably winning
a larger and larger number of estimators.
The essential reasons of this increasing interest
are to be attributed to the demand
of finding a big size dog, with the characteristics
of a molossian, but with a strong constitution
and rather rustic, without many problems
about feeding and climate,
that can do a real and efficacious guard;
therefore it is not only beautiful,
but mainly useful and frugal.
On the contrary, one of the factors
that has held its diffusion
has certainly been the massive use
of this breed in Eastern Europe for
dogfighting; but the thing that
is never said is that breeds selected
for this attitude give less problems
at home than many other ones,
usually recommended as family dogs.
The only true problem that anyway
is shared with most breeds with
a determined character,
is intolerance between two members
of the same sex, so sometimes
a calm walk with an adult male
can become very hard when you meet
other male dogs that do no want to submit
to our tough! But if we have dedicated
a lot of attention and time
to the indifference towards the
other dogs since it was a puppy,
we'll have a tolerant dog,
perhaps with some intemperance,
but normally judicious.
The Central Asian Ovcharka
is a dog that can stand every martyrdom
by cubs in general (children or animals),
it is difficult to find one of these dogs
loosing its patience with a child;
I've said difficult but not impossible,
because it is also true that
not every lines of blood have the same equilibrium.
At this point I think it's correct to specify
that only if you apply to serious
and qualified breeders that
have been owning adult subjects
for a long time, you can have the unnegligible warranty to buy
a puppy with a good temper;
if you apply to incompetent traders,
not certainly interested in spreading
the race, but just thinking about selling
one more dog, you really risk a lot .