Greetings Wolf and Zeljko, First of all, I have to say that I agree with everything that both of you have written about Sarplaninac. I know that dogs on Sara mountain today can hardly represent what Sarplaninac was, is or should be. Also I know that many races are introduced into Sarplaninac gene pool, starting from CO, CAO, newfies, St.Bernards, etc. and I`m not talking only about breeders who done it (and some still do it) on their private breeding farms.They are just "special" kind of people, most of them are arrogant persons and are thinking that they have gathered all knowledge of this world in their heads. People on Sara have done the same thing too, and I simply can not explain what was their interest that made them to do so. Doing that, they have distroyed essential beauty of those gorgeus animals. Some folks on Sara have understood that what theu did was wrong and saw that those dog mixes are not what they have expected from them to be and they are now buying Sarplaninac pupps and mature dogs from breeders in Serbia. Paradox! Still, there are some "oasis" in few remote parts of Sarplanina, where you still can find families that have excellent dogs of a true Sarplaninac type and they are breading them the way you sed it Wolf. They usually have all "merdzan" type dogs. Or all "karabash" type dogs, etc. and it is still easier for you to get a pupp from them as a present, if you are their friend, then it is to buy it from them. But even if they decide to give you the pupp, be sure that you will not get the best one. Best one will stay at their home. Things that are worrying me now are - will those dogs survive. Situation on Kosovo and Metohija is very bad nowadays (and not much brighter in Macedonia either), but I am still an optimist. Wolf I would like to thank you on your kind offer of asking you any questins I may have, and to warn you: - avalanche of my questions will hit you soon! Ha-ha. Stay well!