Tibetan mastiff origin Tibetan mastiff from where

Tibetan mastiff origin Tibetan mastiff produced in China’s Qinghai-Tibet Plateau 3000-5000 meters of alpine zone, harsh climatic conditions and difficult living environment, creating a Tibetan mastiff formidable, courageous character traits. Tibetan mastiff type according to the main production area of Tibetan mastiff division, there are more types, Kangba type and Tibetan type three. Tibetan mastiff origin story in Tibetan areas, there are many legends about the Tibetan mastiff. It is said that a long time ago, the Tibetan plateau in the western part of a village perennial aggression by the wolves, wolves in the village “robbed the house” nothing evil, many families in order to avoid the trouble and away from home. There was a young man among the people left behind, who made defense tools with his own efforts, but he was unable to eliminate the wolf infestation because his strength was weak and his two fists could not defeat the wolves. One night he had a strange dream in which an old man told him that a man and a dog would pass by here in a few days and he should be treated well. The young man woke up will believe, a few days later, the fruit of a person leading a bitch from the village, the young man in accordance with the guidelines in the dream good food and drink, good service, the man left to express his gratitude to the young man wanted to give something, the young man obeyed the old man’s words as long as the bitch. The man instructed him that the dog was about to give birth and there were nine puppies in one litter, so he should not feed the puppies at birth, but hold them away from the mother and let them destroy themselves, leaving the last one to help eliminate the wolf problem in the village. Some time later, as the man said, the mother dog gave birth to nine children, and the young man put the puppies in a cellar and let them fight with each other, one of them looked very different, it slept all day and did not participate in the fight. It is also because of its “no fight with food”, so it avoided all the fighting, and became the last survivor. The young man will hold it out, the mother’s sufficient milk was originally needed to feed the nine sons, now just let it eat, plenty of food so that the puppy grew up fast as a calf, the young man gave it a dominant name called “mastiff”. The mastiff’s body bones grew bigger and bigger, and the food fed by the young man was far from enough to satisfy its meals, so the mastiff went out hunting on its own, and the size of the prey was from small to big, from the initial rabbits and other small animals, until one day it took back a wolf that was bitten to death. All know that the wolf is spiritual, with a strong revenge psychology, a few days later, the wolves besieged the fortress, the young man led the mother dog and mastiff together to the wolves, a fierce battle after the wolves left countless bodies and fled, the mother dog also fell down with serious injuries, mastiff looked at his mother closed his eyes, a roar rushed out of the fortress. The young man thought that the mastiff had left, but on the second day, the mastiff returned to the fortress with a body full of wounds. From then on, one person and one mastiff traveled all over the west, where there were wolf disasters, and in the process, the mastiff mated with local dogs and left offspring to continue to guard the side. Finally, the young man and the mastiff died in Tibet, in order to commemorate the guardian god who can not speak, the mastiff is called Tibetan mastiff.