Crossbreeding among types usually works well, for example herding breeds such as Border Collies crossed with Australian Shepherds, or guardian breeds such Pyrenees and
Maremma, because the genes and instinctive behaviors won't fight with one another.
"Part of one of the oldest farms in the
Maremma region, at this produce shop in Albinia, all the [ingredients for the] grappa, marmalades, and cheeses--made in the on-site dairy--are sourced from the surrounding area."parrina.it
A few other breeds to consider would be the
Maremma Sheepdog, Tibetan Mastiff, Pyrenean Mastiff and the Akbash.
Though only in his early 40s, Lawrence had a dying man's grasp of life, with a morbid interest in the malaria that was then affecting large areas of the
Maremma in the midst of the Fascist reclamation which had seen the area develop into a holiday centre for affluent Italians.
Do that in the
Maremma, near Grosseto, at Castello di Vicarello, located about halfway between Rome and Florence.
Labrador Retriever 478 166 (34.7) 312 (65.3) 264 German Shepherd 312 253 (81.1) 59 (18.9) 171 Golden Retriever 214 53 (24.8) 161 (75.2) 133 American Staffordshire 153 72 (53.1) 81 (46.9) 58 Terrier Boxer 106 88 (83.0) 18 (17.0) 66 Ariegeois 92 4 (4.3) 88 (95.7) 5 Cane Corso 76 38 (50.0) 38 (50.0) 27 Rottweiler 57 6 (10.5) 51 (89.5) 32 Bernese Mountain Dog 44 8 (18.2) 36 (81.8) 33 Dobermann 32 25 (78.1) 7 (21.9) 19 Kurzhaar 30 7 (23.3) 23 (76.7) 4 Australian Shepherd 29 9 (31.0) 20 (69.0) 3 Siberian Husky 29 12 (41.4) 17 58.6) 4
Maremma Sheepdog 24 12 (50.0) 12 (50.0) 15 Weimaraner 24 14 (58.3) 10 (41.7) 13 Belgian Shepherd 23 12 (52.2) 11 (478) 3 English Pointer 22 8 (36.4) 14 (63.6) 2 Total 1,745 787 (45.1) 958 (54.9) 852 Breeds DEA neg DEA pos No.
In 2006
Maremma guardian dogs were deployed on Middle Island near Warrnambool, Victoria to protect Little Penguins Eudyptula minor from Red Fox predation (Bourchier 2015).
1 TUSCAN TREAT Seven nights from PS875pp, flights extra Pedalling off the pasta will be easy-peasy over the mainly flat terrain of La
Maremma region, Tuscany's hidden coastal gem.
It stars Shane Jacobson as Swampy Marsh, a chicken farmer who comes up with the unlikely idea of using Oddball, a
maremma sheepdog, to protect the nearby penguin colony from foxes.
She started writing only in 1995, publishing several novels (Vite parallele, Il Filo, 2005; Un delitto per i motivi d'onore and Il ribelle, Maremmi, 2006; L'epilogo, Il Filo, 2007; and Una storia incredibile, Il Filo, 2009), collections of short stories dealing with our relationship with animals (I nostri compagni di viaggio, Il Filo, 2009), and Risorgimento--Illusioni e inganni (
Maremma, 2010), focusing on fundamental episodes from Italian history between 1850 and 1893.
Cabernet 2014 Lot 09 Toscana 2014 hails from Tuscany's
Maremma coast - a wine area many miles from Chianti that has grown in stature in recent years.