Alpine mastiff

[keepdiggin 9,233]

Any know much about it.

[iworkwhippets 12,247]

24 minutes ago, keepdiggin said:

Any know much about it.

   Its a dog ,  hope ive helped

[keepdiggin 9,233]

4 minutes ago, iworkwhippets said:

   Its a dog ,  hope ive helped

Silly old c**t 

[keepdiggin 9,233]

1 minute ago, baker boy said:

From wiki

 

From wiki

Alpine Mastiff - Wikipedia

EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

 

Thanks mate

[lurcherman 887 12,689]

30 minutes ago, keepdiggin said:

Silly old c**t 

Reported for cyber bullying 

[chartpolski 20,498]

I read it wrong and thought you were asking about the Alpine MASSIF, the Alps !

But I guessed they would have something in common with, possibly an ancestor breed of, the Saint Bernard, as has been previously mentioned.

Another regional molloser type.

Cheers.

[Nicepix 5,650]

The Pyrenean Mountain Dog is reported to be making a comeback. In the mountains where shepherds still farm their sheep the traditional way there are also three protected species of mammals; ibex, mouffalon and marmots. Amid all this tranquility the re-wilding brigade have successfully released apex predators in the shape of brown (grisly) bears. The bears require 25% of their diet to be meat. They can't catch the wild mountain sheep and goats so they cause the dumb domestic sheep to stampede over cliffs then the bears  climb down and eat some of them. The farmers are not surprisingly upset about this. It isn't helped by the fact that the bears are protected and monitored 24/7. They also were brought in from Slovenia where they had been trapped after causing their farmers hassle. The re-wilders initial stock were problem bears! 

The solution proposed by the pro-bear group, mmost of whom don't farm or even live locally is for shepherds to buy PMDs to protect their flocks from the problem that they have created!  

[tatsblisters 7,974]

Pyreanian mountain dog remember seeing a few when I were a kid down to the kids television series Belle and Sebastian that made them popular a big lump of a dog that must be a nightmare to keep indoors when moulting. The breed must be pretty rare these days I would have thought. 

[THE STIFFMEISTER 14,576]

4 hours ago, Nicepix said:

The Pyrenean Mountain Dog is reported to be making a comeback. In the mountains where shepherds still farm their sheep the traditional way there are also three protected species of mammals; ibex, mouffalon and marmots. Amid all this tranquility the re-wilding brigade have successfully released apex predators in the shape of brown (grisly) bears. The bears require 25% of their diet to be meat. They can't catch the wild mountain sheep and goats so they cause the dumb domestic sheep to stampede over cliffs then the bears  climb down and eat some of them. The farmers are not surprisingly upset about this. It isn't helped by the fact that the bears are protected and monitored 24/7. They also were brought in from Slovenia where they had been trapped after causing their farmers hassle. The re-wilders initial stock were problem bears! 

The solution proposed by the pro-bear group, mmost of whom don't farm or even live locally is for shepherds to buy PMDs to protect their flocks from the problem that they have created!  

Think there was a charity did that with Afghan kangals in Africa if I remember rightly 

[keepdiggin 9,233]

7 minutes ago, THE STIFFMEISTER said:

Think there was a charity did that with Afghan kangals in Africa if I remember rightly 

Turkish kangal and used them to guard against cheetah attacks on goats

[saluki bouy 635]

I’m not on social media anymore but followed a women on a cattle raunch in oz and they had white kinda of looked like golden retriever’s presumed they where kept as stock guardians would this be same bred pmd 

[shaaark 10,150]

1 hour ago, tatsblisters said:

kids television series Belle and Sebastian

Used to watch that, as a kid, myself lol.

The flashing blade.

Champion the wonder horse, and a couple of others lol

[shaaark 10,150]

1 minute ago, baker boy said:

Proper Saturday morning tele

[THE STIFFMEISTER 14,576]

8 minutes ago, baker boy said:

Proper Saturday morning tele

 

16 minutes ago, shaaark said:

Used to watch that, as a kid, myself lol.

The flashing blade.

Champion the wonder horse, and a couple of others lol

Lunacy , nothing else compared to Ulysses 31 

[shaaark 10,150]

2 minutes ago, THE STIFFMEISTER said:

 

Lunacy , nothing else compared to Ulysses 31 

Never even heard of that, stiff lol