Tigeo, I think you are confusing LGDs with Flock Guards. Flock Guards like the Great Pyreenes are left with the flock with no humans for weeks at a time. They actually make all their own choices as to if they are to fight or take the herd to saftey allowing preditors to take one or two week members of the flock. One will save from losing several members of the flock from a stampeed, allowing one or two to be taken. The WEBs were developed for grazing large herds of cattle in La Florida, and worked with the cattlemen. They therefore take direction from the handler. Many cattle were left behind in the swamps from the Spanish Crackers. They are still living wild in the swamps, today. It is this base type working dog that makes it an excellent farm type livestock protection dog. And yes, no writer is perfect. I do not agree with everything Dr Carl Semenic says in everyone of his books, no more than Dr Dieter Fleg. For that matter, I even correct myself. The info of dogs is of such vast amounts, Dr Carl Semenic as I will say we are not experts, but students. Interesting, subject, the Canary Dog. They too were used for farm work. And my book on world history tells me the Spanish were in the Canary Islands the same time they were in the New World. Too bad, the Canary Dogs are now nothing more then ban-dogs from what I can see. Now, Dr Carl Semenic did investigate the American Pit Bulldog back in the mid 1970s. I know what he's says is true, as I have been investigating bulldogs in the South since the late 1960s. And I'll post what he wrote in 1984 in the next thread. Take it for what it's worth. Infact, it's my advice to get off this "new idiot box" the computor and go and see for yourself what these dogs are. Visit them in feild study, on the farm.