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Story about Joshu (the dog who my wife was nervous about meeting). This was years ago. We lived in Venice CA. Rough neighborhood, but we managed.
Joshu was a 90 lb pit lab mix. Very physically impressive dog. Also smart as any dog I've ever known, amazingly loving, and a great judge of character.

My housemate Tommy and I threw a party. I had a bunch of musician friends over to jam. Lots of people the dogs had never met. No problems. Until...
I was playing bass and Tommy comes up to me and says "Joshu is sitting in the middle of the walkway and won't let this guy pass. I don't know him. Do you know him?"
I looked, and I didn't know him either. Since Joshu had let dozens of people in, I said "If Joshu won't let him in, tell him he has to leave."
Turned out the guy was known as trouble around the neighborhood, though neither of us had known that.

I'll be very glad to see Joshu when I cross the rainbow bridge myself.

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Lavitz (left... Rhodesian Ridgeback, mix maybe) will be 11 this year... shelter dog
Maka (center... Beagle) will be 4 months on July 6th and is my daughter's pup.
Brutus (right... Anatolian Shepherd Dog) will be 6 months old on July 4th and my wife's pup.
Junia (back... Anatolian Shepherd Dog) Brutus's litter mate and a rescue from the breeder. She was sold to a wrong family and came to me head shy and afraid of men. She has accepted me, but still fear wets if I move to quick near her.
 
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Hi @James Hart good to see you around here.
Are you already familiar with Anatolians? They're interesting dogs, very independent thinkers. Great dogs but don't expect them to be Labs...
Otto, another Anatolian rescue.
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kesslari said:
Hi @James Hart good to see you around here.
Are you already familiar with Anatolians? They're interesting dogs, very independent thinkers. Great dogs but don't expect them to be Labs...
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Thanks, I lurk (still have TB in a pinned tab). Yes we were very familiar with Anatolian / Kangal before hand. We've always loved large/giant breeds, but cannot handle the short lifespan. Anatolians almost aren't dogs... they live with what they guard, they bite nearly as hard as a bear, they are a giant 6000 year old breed that can live into their teens, they live on their own and while fiercely loyal consider their family more as flock then master, chew EVERYTHING and ANYTHING... quickly!

How am a doing so far? :laugh:

Those pictures are at about 5 months, their Dad is a 180lbs beast of a Kangal from a sheep and goat farm in Central NJ. Brought from the mountains of Northern India in the belly of his pregnant mother... their Mom is more typical in size and build and was breed by another lady here in NJ.

I moved last summer to a house on 2.2 wooded acres, we are planning chickens and an orchard... since the pups hit 4 months, the bear has stopped visiting!
 
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You're spot on, my friend.
A few more things that you may already know, but that I like to share...
First - females have stronger wanderlust than males. Either gender can be serious escape artists, but females especially.
Second, as far as "breed", they were working dogs for that 6000 years, not bred to "look" particularly like anything. Just to do their job.
Which leads to... there are several names for them in Turkey, and they're all pretty much the same working dog. "Akbash" means "white face". "Karabash" means "Black face". Kangal you know. They are also known as "Coban Kopeck" which means "Shepherd's Dog" or similar.
If you haven't seen it, check out the Cheetah Conservation Fund project, where they have been using Anatolians to protect livestock in Africa, thus eliminating the threat of cheetah to livestock and so protecting the cheetah (as farmers don't feel that they have to kill cheetah to protect their herds).
The Year of the Livestock Guarding Dog • Cheetah Conservation Fund

We started with Anatolians for the same reason - large breed with good temperament and reasonable life span. We got our first way back in the mid-90's, daughter of a Turkish import, 130 lb female, played midwife to our goats and kept everyone safe. We moved into rescue later.
Very cool to have this connection.
 
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Very cool @kesslari

We've had a few Catahoula previously, not easy to be found in NJ. I've seen the Cheetah thing, our daughter was a Cheetah for 2 Halloweens. We've watched about every documentary on them :)

We prefer dogs breed for purpose over style... actually hate what the AKC has done to breeds.

As far as the Anatolians, I called a local breeder to get info on pricing and frequency of litters. She had 2 males turning 12 weeks unsold and priced as livestock dogs, not designer pets :) In chatting with the breeder and sharing photos, she asked if I'd take on the female. She was too long in a home to put back on a farm... and needs a steady handler to undo her fear. If I ever meet the old owner, I'll make him fear wet himself!
 
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James Hart said:
Very cool @kesslari

We've had a few Catahoula previously, not easy to be found in NJ. I've seen the Cheetah thing, our daughter was a Cheetah for 2 Halloweens. We've watched about every documentary on them :)

We prefer dogs breed for purpose over style... actually hate what the AKC has done to breeds.

As far as the Anatolians, I called a local breeder to get info on pricing and frequency of litters. She had 2 males turning 12 weeks unsold and priced as livestock dogs, not designer pets :) In chatting with the breeder and sharing photos, she asked if I'd take on the female. She was too long in a home to put back on a farm... and needs a steady handler to undo her fear. If I ever meet the old owner, I'll make him fear wet himself!
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That’s the way I feel about the previous owner of GiGi, that I posted about earlier. I secretly hope that someone shows up one day and says, “ that’s my dog” I’m afraid my Christianity, would suddenly depart, and he/she would leave with worse scars than my dog lives with everyday. She still cowers down if I have anything in my hand, even as non-threatening, as a coffee cup.
 
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WG Plum said:
It's a regular tennis ball, she goes through anything else in a day or two.
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Kong's are really good. They hold up great. It takes my iggyhua a long time to surgically remove the cover. Oh. They have squeakers! Ollie doesn't try to remove them any more. After 4-5 years, they stopped being interesting. :roflmao: They come in several different sizes, which is great, since none of my 3 is big enough to handle a full size tennis ball easily. I get the next size smaller. Watching my Chihuahua try to play with one of those is a blast...especially watching him try to make it to the top of the bed without losing the ball. FYI, he does succeed every once in awhile. :laugh:
 
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