CAUCASIAN OWTCHARKA

The origin of the Caucasian Ovtcharka data of remote times, approximately two thousand years. The name of Caucasian speaks us to Ovtcharka of the region of origin of the race, this is the Caucasus, region of Georgia in the old Soviet Union, and Ovtcharka that is a Russian word that means that the dog has a place between the man who shepherds and the pasturing dogs, the Caucasian Ovtcharka is for protecting so much to the shepherd as to the dogs of pasturing of threats.

Formerly, the function of the dogs was to be with its master and goods and to protect them of everything. The Caucasus is a difficult territory, extremosos climates with fluctuating temperatures between 40 °C and - 5 °C, wild predators and frequent wars were part of the daily life of these dogs. The survival of the towns and the owners rested in shoulders of these animal. During the conquest of the Caucasus in 1765 there was a special order to put to the Caucasian Ovtcharka as guard in all the strengths of I exercise Russian.

According to some evidences of literary sources during the wars Russian-Turks, the Russians not only used to the Caucasian Ovtcharka like defender of their strengths, fields and vehicles but also as military units in combat In east Russia dog serves as presidential guard and is the dog of election of the Russian army. In their original atmosphere, the shepherds do not take care of these dogs, because they do not interest to them, but because they think that their dogs are the sufficiently intelligent ones to survive. This quality is the first and more important value in these animal.

When a dog is going to have its puppies, it digs an Earth hole. It carries out the first natural selection: she does not feed the puppies that are ill or they are not sufficiently strong. When the puppies are growing, they must learn to survive by themselves. The shepherds make the last selection when maintaining solely to the best dogs for the work. These selections allow them and to have a dog created by the nature.