Tibetan mastiff personality characteristics of Tibetan mastiff personality

Tibetan mastiff character traits Tibetan mastiff character traits have a high degree of alertness, a strong sense of territory, extremely loyal to the master, good at protecting the master and his belongings. However, due to the territory of strangers have strong hostility, aggression, therefore not suitable for urban breeding. Urban population density, virulent dog temperament is unstable, easy to cause harm to people around. Tibetan mastiff physical signs Marco Polo had a detailed description of the Tibetan mastiff in his travels, he described the Tibetan mastiff “body as high as a donkey, roar like a lion, fierce”, he was the first Tibetan mastiff to the text of the Westerners. Tibetan mastiff because of the different living areas, there will be differences in appearance. Usually head and neck high, majestic posture, appropriate proportions, muscular, robust as a lion, larger, about 120 cm long, body hair coarse and thick, the outer coat is not too long, the bottom hair dense, like cold and afraid of heat. The best quality of Tibetan mastiff, out of Tibet’s Naqu region. Dense mane, broad forehead, gaze. Tibetan mastiff out of the Qinghai region, almost no mane, the hair on the body is also relatively short, but the size of the larger, but its character is not generally Tibetan mastiff fierce, calm. Tibetan mastiff history Tibetan mastiff has a few dry years of history, as one of the oldest breed, in China’s earliest history book “Shang Shu” will be recorded, it can be seen as early as the Spring and Autumn period this dog has been used as a guard dog. In Chinese historical records, nomadic herders (the Qiang) at that time dealt with attacks and threats from other fierce animals by domesticating those wild dogs that followed the herders. They guarded the tents, escorted the cattle and sheep, and became the faithful companions of the herders, which should be the earliest Tibetan mastiff cone. In the Tibetan Plateau extremely harsh living environment, Tibetan mastiff also endured the “natural selection” of natural selection. Herdsmen to leave a stronger breed, select some large and robust, fierce and faithful, good at herding individuals to reproduce offspring, thus maintaining the pure lineage of Tibetan mastiff. Later on, during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Fu Qing, the Qing government’s resident commander in Tibet who accompanied the Panchen masters to the east, brought a Tibetan mastiff to Beijing, and all the court and the public admired the dog’s heroic posture and momentum. The Italian painter Lang Shining complied with Qianlong’s order and painted the last of the “Ten Dogs”, “Geibi”, which represents this Tibetan mastiff.