• H Alaa,

    The reaction of the breeder is typical of the breeders of the three ovcharka types. Many in the USA have suffered the same kind of attacks and public slander by breeders in the USA.  I also went through that same treatment many years ago. A large part of the reason is that many breeders take their kennel too seriously and forget that they are dealing with an animal.  They glorify their breeding practices, their dogs, and their offsprings and as such, the only thing that could go wrong is their dogs having a bad or uninformed owner.  It is very typical and we call it "kennel blindness."

    So, at 8 months old your Central Asian should have exhibited strong guarding temperament already.  At the very least it should not take kindly to being stared down.  A typical aboriginal Ovcharka will exhibit this attitude at 6 months or sooner.  They may mellow out as they get better at distinguishing friend from foe but the default should be to guard.

    I don't know the breeder in question but a quick search of the web yielded no results for the CAO breeder in Australia. We have some old forum topics on here about the CAO temperament.  

    And here is a topic covering the differenced between the CO and CAO regarding temperament.  

    This topic is about temperament testing the CAO puppy.