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Caucasian shepherd dog: Legends and myths about dogs.

Legends and myths about dogs.     Myths and legends about dogs found in many nations. The dog was never considered an ordinary animal, a man identified her special place in their beliefs, many legends and myths.     According to Greek mythology, the three-headed dog Cerberus, the neck is moving snake, guarded exit from the underworld of Hades that the souls of dead could not return to the society of the living. There, in the realm of Hades, on the banks of the sacred river Styx were carried out monstrous dog. They accompanied the retinue of the goddess Hecate (ancient attributed to her the dog barking, the dog's head, the dog's appearance), which moonless nights wandering the roads and near the graves. Hecate sends to the nightmares of sleeping people and heavy dreams. She was considered a helper in witchcraft. And to appease it, people brought her to the sacrifice of dogs.     In one of the ancient Greek myth tells us that Orpheus, Eu...

Prizes at the International Film Festival of Films for Children (2008) and Kinomalysh in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2008). The events of the film "Buran" begins in 1989 at a time when the Berlin Wall collapses. Finnish musician arrives on tour in Germany. Walking through the market in East Berlin, he accidentally finds an unusual breed of dog. Puppy faces death, and takes away his musician with him to Finland. Unusual dog that resembles a fluffy ball, is astounding family Malinin. Nothing is known about this dog, even her breed remains a mystery. Wrapped with love and warmth, Buran is growing, not knowing the rules and boundaries. Touching fluffy ball imperceptibly into a whopper, reminiscent in its power tractor. No fences, chains can not hold a strong dog that starts to violently guard the family Malinin. This is experienced by friends, neighbors, school director, bear and even a tank regiment. As a result, the family unravels the mystery of his unusual pet. It turns out t...

Two sources DEVOTION( from the book of the ethologist Konrad Lorenz "   Man finds a friend " ).     Anyone who has had to have more than one dog, you know how different are the dog personality.  There is absolutely similar to the two dogs , and no two people are alike - even among twins.   But, identifying the specific features of each of the human the nature and combining them into a category can be up to a certain extent explain the different temperaments, although similar analysis of the infinite diversity of the studied material never reach the status of an exact science. Dog personality is much simpler and therefore much easier for us explain the features of different nature, considering the development of certain "characterological" features and their combination for a given individual. Of course, I'm not going to spend in this book is a scientific study of character traits the domestic dog, but nevertheless try to show how the interacti...

Petr Rumyantsev Transdanubia (01.15.1725 - 12.19.1796), Count, Field-Marshal. He was born of the marriage orderly PETER I Alexander Ivanovich Rumyantsev and Countess Maria Andreyevna Matveeva. Peter I, a wedding Rumyantsev and his flighty and changes his mistress Matveeva, and after the marriage has provided her a great location. Many thought the new-born son of a king, and the godmother was Catherine I. In 15 years, Rumyantsev was sent to Berlin to acquire diplomatic skills, but the youth was distinguished by such "extravagance, idleness " that the Messenger of Brakel hastened to get rid of him. Finally being able to enter military service, Rumyantsev, four years later became a colonel. The first great victory won Rumyantsev during the Seven Years War (1756-63 gg.), When in 1757 the cabinet decided the outcome of the battle of Gross-Egersdorf. Then followed the successes in the battle of Kunersdorf (1758), taking the fortress of Kolberg (1761). Frederick II, told his ...

1 - length of head , 2 - length of the muzzle , 3 - chest , 4 - metacarpus ; dimensional line 5 - the width of the chest 6 - height at the withers , and 7 - height of the rump , 8 - depth of the chest , 9 - Length of body In the dog most often use the following codes to show the basic data about the animal physique. Index of prolixity (format) - the ratio between the length and height of the dog: Length of body X 100/ height at the withers. The index size of 100, indicating that the height and length equal to the dog - the dog is square. Increase of more than 100 points to stretch, more long format. The index of a bone - the relative development of the skeleton based on the ratio of the pastern with the height at the withers: metacarpus X 100/ height at the withers. High on the index - the relative long-legged dogs, the ratio of leg length to total height at the withers: length of the front leg to the elbow X 100/ height at the withers. The index of the chest - ...