Planet Molosser - Facts vs Fictions NO such thing as "Ocvharkas " as a breed

For confusion CAO CO CAS KO
Posted by JD on 2/18/2006, 2:54 pm
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For some reason Caucasian people have decided to translate HALF the dogs name.
Full Name for the Caucasian is ,
Kavkazskaia Ovtcharka NOt Caucasian Ovcharka.

But I guess the translation to "shepherds dogs "dont keep them in the "rare " area for promotions.
And keeping the Original name is too hard to market.

And some people need to feel special by stating they have Exotic "Ovcharkas' vs shepherds dogs.
Which adds to more backyard bred promtions.
Something I have worked for 10 years againest.
We had tons of "rescues" being marketed as "Ovcharkas the rare dogs without IDing what Ovcharka it is? The buying public being stupid
would spend top dollar on them and then they are in need of rescue.

SO half translations for the 1st time in dog Breed History is the norm.

Which is why the CAO in this country is known CORRECTLY as the Central Asian Shepherd Dog..
It is also known in Central Asia as "shepherds dogs " plus a long list excluding OVCHARKA since it was a name IMPROPERLY put on a breed during FORCED Occupation of their homeland.

Note all USA Purebred dogs are Reg as CAS or imported as SAO . The only CAO are back yard bred mutts being bred by the Puppymill and reg thru ARBA.

Now unless Russian Or Slavic is the US Native tongue that I dont know about.
We are using the correct terms for the CAS.

If not the breed would be known correctly as
[Sredneasiastskaia Ovtcharka]

As per UKC:

http://mail.ukcdogs.com/UKCweb.nsf/80de88211ee3f2dc8525703f004ccb1e/0c9a7de75af7dde685257044005db4f2

As Per AKC:

http://www.akc.org/breeds/central_asian_shepherd_dog/index.cfm

Picture is the 3 "Ovcharka breeds

South Russian Sheepdog - AKA SROvcharka
Central Asian Shepherd Dog -AKA CAOvcharka
Caucasian Shepherd dogs - AKA

Note it is a INSULT to the the Origins of the dogs of Central Asia to use the misnomer for their native breeds stolen by the Russians during the Cold War.

Ovcharka in Central Asian = MONGREL
based on the GSD's that were left there LOOSE after the Russian pulled out when the Former USSR fell.

Here is a picture of one of these CROSS bred
GSD X Central Asian.

.http://www.centralasianshepherd.homestead.com/jdp.jpg

Shepherds dogs were around LONG before "Ovcharka was a WORD.

But while be politically Correct when you can be backyard breeder correct.

In addition the Russians changed their standard for the SAO in 2000 6 years ago creating their own version of the breed.

Breeding away from the FCI World Wide standard has had its tol on the original breed type of Central Asian Shepherd dogs.
To the point one day of the breeds being split down the middle,