Ancient Bulgarian breed of dog saved from extinction
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An ancient Bulgarian breed of dog has been saved from extinction, thanks in part to the efforts of one family whose love of dogs turned into a vocation to save rare breeds.
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It started with one unique dog explains Attila Sedefchev.
"We decided that this dog must leave his genes and that started everything."
High up in the Pirin Mountains, ot the southern edge of Bulgaria, the Sedefchev family have built a farm to try to save some of the oldest breeds of domestic animals in Europe: the Karakachan sheep, the Karakachan horse and the Karakachan mountain livestock guardian dog.
The Karakachani were shepherds who for centuries earned their living high in the mountains, with their strong long-haired dogs which they used as flock guardians.
The biggest of the Karakachan dogs can reach almost 60 kg (132 pounds) in weight. Their job is to protect the livestock from wolves and other wild animals, and move the sheep over big distances.
In the late 1940s agriculture in Bulgaria was nationalised by the communist government and all livestock was placed in big state-run farms.
The role of the mountain guardian dogs was downgraded and today the original breed is almost extinct.
"Eventually we established a society for preserving this breed. These dogs have been around since ancient times and their history shows that they are best suited for guarding a herd. This is why we decided to preserve their authentic genes and their natural activity. Most members of our society are sheep or goat owners and like us have been dog owners first before setting up their own sheep or goat flock so that the dogs can stay in a suitable environment," explains Sedefchev.
Sedefchev says that for a decade now there has been interest in the Karakachan dog, from canine enthusiasts in the United States.
"American farmers were looking for a dog with abilities which their dogs didn't possess. They were looking for an intelligent dog, with stable nerves, good team spirit, and luckily, they discovered all these qualities in the Karakachan dog," he explains.
"Ten years later, there are some 200 such dogs in American farms from the East coast to Wyoming and New Mexico, as well as in Mexico and Canada. Our dogs have successfully replaced some traditional breeds as the Pyrenean mountain dog used as flock guardians there," he adds.
From the mountains of Bulgaria to the wide open plains of the United States these unique strong loyal working dogs are now growing in popularity and numbers.
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Браво , продължавайте в същия дух, каузата е добра
@Alexander The Great Bulgarian/Thracian dog.
@Alexander The Great Thracians are one of Bulgaria's ancestors. Along with Slavs and Bulgars.
@Alexander The Great Greeks are Middle Easterns.
@Alexander The Great You have nothing in common with the Thracians. Greek historian Herodotus described the Thracians as barbarians living north of classical Greece and they were non-Greek tribes originally. Later they were Hellenized after the conquests of Alexander and Philil of Macedon. That doesn't make them Greeks. Then came the Roman Empire, thus a process of Romanization occurred with Roman culture and etc. When Bulgaria was founded in 681 ad Thracians intermingled with Bulgarians, and Bulgaria's culture is mostly old Thracian traditions and customs like Kukeri, Nestinarstvo, Surva, Martenitsa, that Greeks don't have. Plus modern Bulgarians DNA is predominantly native Balkan/Thracian.
@Alexander The Great Let's talk about the genocide and assimilation of the Bulgarians (Slavophones, Pomaks) in Aegean Macedonia and Western Thrace?
Браво!
Very nice job bravo From New York ✊🇧🇬
Bravo! Great job
Having rescued sarakazan from Bulgaria ❤
Butuiful dogs
Loving the impromptu Greece vs Bulgaria argument this video has generated
Само ще добавя, че име "каракачанско" е неправилно, специално за българското куче, уикипедията въобще не я броя за достоверна информация(вече са съдили от прокуратурата хора, които пишат неверни данни там) . Щом породата се е формирала на територията на България, се нарича българско овчарско куче. Няма да изпадам в полемики, но много грешна кампания(от 25 години) се води за нашето овчарско куче с погрешното название. Ще отбележа, че в цяла Северна и Западна България навремето(говорим за отпреди 200 години, преди изобщо да са чували за "каракачани" като име, защото за първи път името се появява от германски учен, изследовател чак през 1934 година) , когато кучетата ни не са имали досег с така наречените "каракачани", са изглеждали точно като тези в момента, даже са имали и разнородни по тип окраски, че късокосмести и дългокосмести и такива, които приличат на днешните шарпланинци ! Това е описано в научна публикация от учен - кинолог, радетел на породата българско овчарско куче и кинолог от повече от 35 години. Тези въпросни разновидности(късокосмести, с вълча окраска като на днешния шарпланинец, или такива, които днес биха ги нарекли от невежи "специалисти" извън "стандарта" ) са избити или заличени от комерсиални индивиди или простотия. Който не знае, да чете рядката книга - "Българското овчарско куче - величие, което привлича и поразява" . Там са описани неща, които ВСЕКИ БЪЛГАРИН трябва да знае, ако милее за националната ни порода(и там има неща, които описват истината за така наречените "каракачани") Помествам и линк само за една малка част от това, как се изопачава името и как се прави избирателно тълкуване от някои хора за свои цели, като се подиграват с историческата принадлежност на българската ни овчарка: mpkucheto.com/%D0%B1%D1%8A%D0%BB%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE-%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE-%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%87%D0%B5/
Като оставим това и за да не отговорите твърде прибързано, виждала съм архивни фотографии(от 1930-те примерно) на "каракачански" кучета и смело мога да кажа, че, или се лъже безобразно, или се използват нечисти користни цели, защото от това, където видях, кучетата приличат на малки хрътки с дълъг косъм(както и двуцветни гончета), рядко попадам на снимки на големи кучета, като те специално са гръцки овчарки и нищо повече. Това е, нека всеки който иска, да рови повече за информация. В моя род са имали българска овчарка и никъде, никога не са я наричали "каракачанско", наричали са овчарско или просто овчарка и за това нещо говорим за години от порядъка на 1980г.!
Прадядо ми беше роден през 1911.Още баща му е гледал кучета на които са казвали Каракачански. Имахме снимки на прадядо и дядо, когато е бил дете с едно от кучетата им. Изглеждало си е точно като тези.От Търновско са.
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Има райони, където каракачански крак не е стъпвал(Северна България, Западна, Северозападна и части Централната част на страната, включително и Североизток) , но българите са имали кучета, досущ като показаните в клипа. Дори и стари фотографии има. Моите предци също са имали овчарски кучета, но никога не са ги наричали "каракачански"(дядо ми е имал досег и ми е разказвал, баща ми също), а овчарски кучета или чобански - използвали са се турцизми, което е нормално за онова време, а и днес в някои райони все още така ги наричат, което е една жаргонна дума и нищо повече, не се претендира с нея.
It’s hilarious how greeks claim everything bulgarian to be greek.
Are you karakachan?? Because i am, and i certainly know better than you
Γκολφου Ευαγγελια I don’t care if you are a greek wannabie. These dogs are classified as “Bulgarian shepherd” matter of fact!
@@irinaten276 this thing with you and the skopjians is totally redicullous.... you are just for laughing!!! Yes it is clasdified, communism was good in propaganda
you'd think they are macedonians
Is there any way for AP Archive to add subtitles in English?
Would be difficult, as there aren't any subtitles and the voice capture and auto-translation of Bulgarian is mostly gibberish at the moment.
How can anyone get in touch with this men ? Is his name Cider?
the guy says that this dog had been on the lands of bulgaria for thousands of years and was used by everybody. however the karakachan are the only fully itinerant shepherds so they used him the most, hence the name. but it is a bulgarian breed so stop it!
I have one of these dogs but she's its sad how theses dogs were killed in world war 2
All those stupid comments who don’t care about this wonderful dog. What is the problem with the name? Get a life guys!
3:42 WTF is wrong with the dog on the far right?
He has a limp
за каракачан се дават пари а този ги обича много
Кво
Karakachan is Bulgarian word - DEFINITELY NOT Greek.
Alexander Beatus not really
It's Turkish: kara - black, kachan - runner.
It is turkish. When the turks arrived at the Balkans and concurred Bulgaria this dogs were used for guarding herds. Back then they were called just shepards dogs . People who used them were bulgarian and vlash nomads.Majority of them were dressed up in black outfits and their sheeps were also kind off dark color/like the one on the video/ ,so the turks started calling them black runners- kara - kachan.So This dog is very common bread on Balkan peninsula and every country blamed as their origin , but that proofs nothing else,but that all the peaples of the balkans were all of the same nationaliti before the: divide and concur strategy was invented by romans till now days.
I am karakachan, live in Greece, and I am Greek!
Read about karakachan! We are from Pindos mountains. Like my karakachan brothers at Sliven! Black clothes and black sheep's as a mourning, since Konstantinoupolis fall at 1453!
This is a sheep, not a dog
Thracians were greek. The Byzantine Empire was greek (altho they were identifying themselves as romas ) The best yoghurt valued for it’s lactobacillus bulgaricus is greek.The Bulgarian saints Cyril and Methodius are greeks.The Bulgarian Joan Kukuzelis was greek.Give me a break!
Cyril and methode were Macedonians from solun which had been changed to tessalonica to make it sound Greek. They were the creators of the Slavic language . The Greek word was created from a German king Otto in 1830 .
hahaha the Thracians is not greek, and
South of the Rhodopes mountines, vegetation ends, and the stones and olive branches begin. ,so did your sheep, and your cows graze rocks and stones????
@@speed9star she is being ironic to emphasis Greeks are always claiming things as Greek when in fact thracian and Bulgarian history is also as ancient and influential as their neighbour's
@@kalishnikov27642 One more thing the Greeks of today have nothing to do with the ancient Hellenes! rather, they have more in common with the peoples of Asia Minor and in particular the Karamans
The Greek proud karakachan nomad people who becomes from Pindos mountains in Greece!!!!!!!!!
Yes. And I had a beautiful Karakachan Greek Shepherd Dog the most beautiful perfect dog and she came from Greece, northern Greece by the mountains.
Karakachan nomad people at the spring and summer, were to Bulgarian and Serb mountains. Autumn back to Greek mountains because of the cold. At 1920-1930,bulgarian communists closed the borders. Many karakachan people trapped in Bulgaria! At 1950 communists took their flocks and dogs as a state property! And now they promote the dogs and sheep's as a Bulgarian breed! Until now 30.000 karakachan brothers live in Bulgaria! Ask them for the breed of the dogs!!!
Greek Dogs actually.
Bulgarian- Karakachan dog
Read about Greek karakachan people!
Yes we know about Greek karakachan people, this dog was named after them and many other animal breeds in Bulgaria because the word karakachan was associated with wild mountain people in the Bulgarian language, but we only borrowed the word to name a dog that has been in bulgarian from thracian times, also the horse breeds are named after them and sheep's, Not because all came from the nomads, but just this word seeped into our language, another biological aspect to take is that if the nomads had this breed probably they couldn't adhere to strict breeding between pure blood dogs to form a pure breed if they were so nomadic and had to change places often.... So it's unlikely they could maintain it for long generations. In the end cultures mix and tribes exchange words and customs this is silly we can go back and forth with this but I don't know why I wasted my time to write this down because probably you think everything is Greek like the father from the movie my big fat Greek wedding
@@kalishnikov27642 this dog breed is from Pindos mountains.still now you can see this breed there.and yes karakachan nomads had only this dog breed for centuries! even if it is from thracian time,it is Greek! whats your relation with thracians; you came here 6th century!you can say it a thracian dog breed! not a bulgarian one!and i say it for the history.not as a propaganda whos places are all Bulgaria and south romylia! we dont want something! we let you bulgarians to leave there and you become christians! before 1500 years! we greek byzantines, and we are proud for this!
Bravo!
What is stronger kangal or karakachan dog?
Butuiful dogs