Mountain dog

A Polish Tatra Sheepdog

Mountain dog is a generic form of dog, a group of similar or related dog breeds or landraces typically from mountain environs of central Eurasia.

They are often a working dog, particularly a livestock or flock guardian or farm dog. By and large, these dogs tend to have a claimed Molosser dog in their genetic heritage.^[1][2][3] Most have a double coat.

Groupings

• FCI Pinscher and Schnauzer, Molossoid and Swiss Mountain Dog Group is a designation used only by the Fédération Cynologique Internationale^[3]
• Swiss mountain dog or Sennenhund — called Swiss mountain dogs or Swiss Cattle Dogs — are farm dogs^[3]

Specific breeds or landraces

• Turkish Akbash Dog
• Alpine Mastiff an extinct breed and progenitor of the St. Bernard, among other Mountain dog breeds. Also known as Barry Dog and Saint Dog.
• Armenian mountain dog, alternative names being the Armenian Gampr and Armenian wolfhound. An alleged prototypical source of dog genetics and a landrace, not just a breed.^[4]
• Appenzeller Sennenhund (redirect from Appenzell Mountain Dog) is a medium-size breed of dog, one of the four Schnauzer-Molossoid breeds- Swiss Mountain and Cattle Dogs
• Bernese Mountain Dog called in Swiss German the Berner Sennenhund, a large breed of dog, one of the four breeds of Sennenhund
• Bucovina Shepherd Dog
• Carpathian Shepherd Dog
• Caucasian Shepherd Dog (redirect from Caucasian Mountain Dog) (Georgian კავკასიური ნაგაზი "Kavkasiuri nagazi"),
• Central Asian Shepherd Dog
• Entlebucher Mountain Dog or Entlebucher Mountain Dog is the smallest of the four Sennenhunds in Switzerland, recognized by the American Kennel Club on January 26, 2011.^[5]
• Estrela Mountain Dog is a breed of dog that has been used to guard herds and homesteads in the Estrela Mountains of Portugal
• Gaddi Kutta is a Mastiff-type dog found in northern India, the Himalayas region (Himachal Pradesh). They are also called the Indian Panther Hound, as well as Mahidant Mastiff. It is a multipurpose hunting dog, flock guardian and herding dog, and is reputed to be strong enough to repulse attacks by snow leopards.
• Georgian Shepherd Large and powerful Guard dog, ancient working dog.
• Great Cambrian Shepherd Dog (Bugailgi Mawr Cymreig), a designer dog — combined Stock Guard/Herding breed developed in Cymru/Wales, ancestry; Pyrenean Mountain Dog and Welsh Sheepdog (Ci Defaid Cymreig).
• Greater Swiss Mountain Dog Grosser Schweizer Sennenhund or Grand Bouvier Suisse is a dog breed which was developed in the Swiss Alps
• Great Pyrenees or Pyrenean Mountain Dog is a large breed of dog, used as a livestock guardian dog
• Greek Shepherd a/k/a Hellenikos Poimenikos or Greek Sheepdog
• Himalayan Sheepdog or Bhote kukur, a rare breed from Nepal.
• Hovawart, included per F.C.I.
• Karakachan Dog
• Karst Shepherd
• Kuchi (dog) originating in Afghanistan, some of which are said to be in a "Mountain" form
• Kumaon Mastiff or Indian Sindh Mastiff is an endangered breed
• Kuvasz
• Leonberger, a cross between a Barry Dog, a Landseer Newfoundland and a Great Pyrenees. Flock guard, carting and water rescue dogs, that generally do not drool despite their large size.
• Maremma Sheepdog, an Italian flock guard dog
• Mioritic is a large breed of livestock guardian dog that originated in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania.
• Moscow Watchdog
• Moscow Water Dog, an extinct lifesaving dog, which was a biter due to genetic heritage.
• Newfoundland (dog) and Landseer (treated separately by the F.C.I.)
• Rafeiro do Alentejo
• Cão de Gado Transmontano
• Cão de Castro Laboreiro
• Pyrenean Mastiff
• Russian tracker extinct dog breed of the Caucasus, precursor to the Golden Retriever
• Šarplaninac (redirect from Sharr Mountain Dog) Yugoslav Shepherd or Illyrian Shepherd Dog, is an ancient livestock guarding dog breed from the Šar Mountains region in the Balkans.
• Slovakian Cuvac
• Spanish Mastiff
• St. Bernard a very large breed of working dog from the Italian and Swiss Alps, originally bred as a Search and rescue dog.
• St. John's water dog, a/k/a Lesser Newfoundland, an extinct precursor of the Newfoundland; ancestor of the modern Retrievers: including Flat Coated, Chesapeake Bay, Golden, and Labrador.
• Tatra Mountain Sheepdog or Polish Tatra Sheepdog
• Tibetan Mastiff
• Tornjak (redirect from Bosnian mountain dog) is a mountain sheep dog native to Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia

See also

• Aidi or Atlas Mountain Dog, a flock guard dog from Morocco
• Formosan Mountain Dog
• Honshū wolf, sometimes called "mountain dog" — nihongo yamainu (ヤマイヌ（豺、犲、山犬）) — in Japanese^[6]
• List of Mastiff-type dog breeds
• Montenegrin Mountain Hound or Yugoslavian Mountain Hound

References

1. Marien-De Luca, Catherine. "Molosser dog definition". Dog Breeds of the World. Retrieved January 14, 2011.
2. Marien-De Luca, Catherine. "Molosser dog history". Dog Breeds of the World. Retrieved January 14, 2011.
3. "FCI Breeds Nomenclature". Federation Cynologique Internationale. Retrieved January 15, 2011.
4. "Characterisitics". Armenian Gampr Club of America. Retrieved April 28, 2011.
5. "Three New Breed Recognized by AKC". Globe and Mail. January 26, 2011. Retrieved January 26, 2011.
6. Knight, John (1997). "On the Extinction of the Japanese Wolf". Asian Folklore Studies (Nanzan University) 56 (1): 129–159. doi:10.2307/1178791. Retrieved January 24, 2014. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1178791