Comment to 'Tibetan Mastiff in China'
  • [quote=Chortens]. Surely no-one would ever argue that all of the dogs depicted are TMs?[/quote] it depends on what you mean by "Tibetan Mastiff"! if you pretend most european show dogs to be tm's...then surely most of depicted dogs in that site are NOT tms... :lol: :lol: :lol: but if we are searching for the original Tibetan molosser...then we come much closer to truthfulness.... :wink: furthermore,you cannot pretend the large and ancient guarding dogs from immense tibetan plateau to be as homogeneous as a standardized modern breed! :roll: the big mistake of western breeding program was (and unfortunately still continues being,due to "blindness" of some breeder...) that of mixing different dogs from different regions (tibet,but also nepal,bhutan,and even india),with different attitudes and environmental-conformation, pretending to call the resulting mutts TIBETAN MASTIFF !!! something like mixing white european dogs (abruzzese,pyr,cuvac,tatra...) and "retrieve" the EUROPEAN MASTIFF 8O about tsang khyi,i share your point of view...for me this term does not designate a different breed itself,but at same time, i'm sure that on tibetan territory there are many different "breeds" (or types,or varieties, or local sort) of mastiff. :P and must admit that i firmly believe that something must be done to preserve and select in our breeding programs most typical TIBETAN specimens,and separate from blood lines those nepalese-bhotia looking dogs! :evil: call them tsang khyi, tibetan molosser,or whatever you want,but dissociate them from nepalese-himalayan sheperd bloodlines!