1 Is the Caucasian Mountain Dog or the Central Asia Dog fit to live in a flat?
The answer is no. Apart from rare exceptions its physical and mental-emotional growth will be prejudged. The puppy should grow on a natural ground (earth, stones, sand, mud, grass) at least until the morfological and character completion (when it is nearly 3 years old).
In this way it can develop a correct musculature, a good behaviour, and so it can adapt itself to the environment around with a right emotional balance (the contact with other animals, the familiarity with the weather conditions).
Certainly we will cause fewer damage by moving in a flat with a grown-up dog than bring up a puppy in a flat.

2 What about the cohabitation with other dogs?
It depends on the other dog! I think that the cohabitation in the same territory with dogs of the same sex, big size and dominant behaviour it's really impossible for both breeds.
The strong innate competitivity of these breeds makes difficult the cohabitation with subjects as much combatives as they are ; above all the Central Asia Dog is more intolerant of pack life than the Caucasian Mountain Dog. A peaceful cohabitation between two dominant subjects is possible only when a puppy gets in touch with a grown-up dog that will be too old to accept a comparison when the little guest becomes an adult.
The grown-up dog will probably hand over the role of leader to its pupil, maybe adopted from long time. When a precise hierarchy is established between the two dogs the problem can be considered solved and we can only expect some unimportant skirmish. On the contrary, there are no problems with submissive and docile dogs.

3 What about the relationships with other animals (hens, horses etc.)?
We noticed that these breeds accept very easily their dog-master's animals and that they protect them in a natural way (this is suggested from their breed memory), but we must accustom the dogs when they are still puppies to see other animals around them and to be uninterested.
In fact when a grown-up dog, which has not been accustomed from the very beginning, sees an animal (cat, sheep or hen)running by it, it will imagine only a funny and appetizing prey to stimulate its predacious instinct.

4 Are these breeds suitable to live in a family with children?
Absolutely yes. Both the breeds are very sweet with the weakest members of the family; but often a big dog, when it is heavily playing, may hurt its playmate, especially if he is too young, without realizing it.
Parents must avoid dangerous play in their absence. Generally dogs get the worst of it during the play (children put fingers into their eyes, pull up their coat and so on). I think that a good education is very important both for dogs and children.

5 Do they need cares for their coat?
These rough breeds don't need a particular toilet. We must avoid frequent washing; if necessary we can rub the coat with a vinegar and water imbued cloth. When dry we may brush it with a large-teeth comb. The moult period (at change of season) is the most binding as we must brush it more than we normally do to completely eliminate the dead hair. These things apart I can say that their management is very easily indeed.

6 Why is this breed not very common and known?
The Central Asia Dog in fact is not very common in Italy, while the Caucasian Mountain Dog is present with a very remarkable number of subjects (only in 1998 more than 600 have been registered to the genealogical registers).
Both the breeds anyway are very ancient and have the undeniable advantage that they have not been manipulated too much by man. They are fascinating and mysterious breeds that hide in their eyes a millennial history.
Sharing a part of our life with one of these dogs means breathing for a while the pungent and uncontaminated air of the hard and savage steppe that has seen the birth of their ancestors.

7 For an inexpert dog lover, which of these two breeds is more suitable?
These breeds are not suitable for people who have not much experience, anyway we have obtained better results with inexperienced owners wishing to listen to and to apply our advices, than with self-styled experts full of prejudices.
Between these two breeds anyway the Caucasian Mountain Dog is easier to manage, because it has a more balanced behaviour and is predictable in the reactions.

8 What does line of blood mean?
The line of blood is a collection of genetically transmittable characteristics (morphological and of character), that in a breed identify the fruit of an aimed selection. In one breed therefore coexist innumerable stocks with very different characteristics, but always remaining in that type. Not always a breeding succeeds in obtaining its own line of blood, this is in fact a goal to aim in order to make possible the identification of the origin of a subject, without reading the pedigree. Different lines of blood are more dissimilar if the breed has not a detailed standard and it has a geographically wide cradle of origin.

9 Are there any typical pathologies of these breeds?
According to our experience I should not say that there are any diseases particularly connected with these breeds. Obviously as every giant breeds it has some predispositions connected with its big dimension.
But it would be more correct to say that there are some diseases that recur in certain "families", probably genetically transmittable (as it happens in every breed), but not specific of these breeds.

10 Why is there a different price among the puppies coming from different breedings?
The quality of the subject and the international importance of the stock determine a part of the price. Other factors that influence the price are: the availability after-selling and the experience of the breeder, the titles gained by parents or grandparents of the puppy, the visibility of the parents, the type of pedigree (a LOI costs more than a LIR), the age of the puppy (younger puppies are more vulnerable, so they are cheaper), the given guarantees (sanitary, morphological, and the character one).