Seems the most common LGDs used outside of their country of origin (as genuine lgds) are - Great Pyrenees, Anatolian Shepherd, Maremma, Akbash, Komondor, Sarplaninac and Kuvasz, probably in that order. Here in australia LGDs aren't that popular (don't know why, graziers are constantly whining about losses to feral dogs and then putting poison baits everywhere, which pisses me off) but maremma and the odd akbash and anatolian seem to be getting a bit of work here and there. edit Another LGD http://www.canids.org/occasionalpapers//livestockguardingdog.pdf you've probably seen but just in case. [size=9]Admin edit. Posting a link is easy. Just copy and past the link from your browser address bar or the website. MD takes care of converting it to -link- as seen above in my edit. Just remember that the link will actually be converted to the word -link- and you can use it easily in a sentence as done above. 8-)[/size]