I love how the Kangals were looking up at the drone in the sky! Very observant dogs.

The kangal will always be in that 1st place. I love this breed!

I have a kangal. Good house dog. Doesn't drool much at all, can be trained. A little high energy, but there's ways around that. A big baby, really sensitive, does stand attention to any noise or perceived intrusion, but if once I say that person is ok or the noise is fine, or he even thinks I'm ok with it, then everyone's his best friend. Good with other dogs too, although he will try to be the boss, of course. Good boy.

The Great Pyrenee (aka Patou) is making a comeback in Europe as a herd dog. With wolves making a comeback in many areas, they have become the preferred dog for guarding the herds

Yeah Turkish kangal!! One of my favorite breeds, hands down

I don't even have a dog, but I like these videos. The narration is excellent! I appreciate the facts about each breed that would also affect decisions folks make about choosing a companion animal. I didn't know dogs could be nocturnal!

This channel is a wealth of information on all breeds. Thanks! You are doing a public service.

Love seeing Central Asian Shepherd (Alabai) on this list. Very versatile dogs. Unfortunately not very popular in the US.

Great Job as always my friend! This was such a EXCELLENT Video!! One of my favorites so far!!! 💕👏🏽

Thank you finally a video about Livestock Guardians. Personal protection videos were honestly getting old.

Another great video, keep up the good work Zeke. You have the best Dog channel on youtube by far.

Beautiful shots Zeke! videos keep getting better and better.

I love doggies and i love your channel! Thank you for your work

The Central Asian Shepherd is my favorite. They are on my must own before I die list lol.

3 best dog breed LGD is Kangal, Karakachan and Transmontano Mastiff, they were all tested in USA also with great success.

Well done! Never thought about the Central Asian Shepard but might be worth a look. Thanks!

I love your films they are packed with accurate information on each amazing dog breed, I started watching your films about 3 years ago. My favourite films are the ones with Brenda at Chinco Ranch, now I have two live stock guardians, a Polish Tata Shepard dog and a Spanish Mastiff, neither dog breed I had heard of before your channel now I love them, thanks Zeek 🇬🇧❤️💙❤️🇬🇧

Just got a female kangal, Rush. She's 3 months and marvelous. Already strong!

Thank you for this info these dogs are amazing

Need an All About Komondor video, love those dogs, and great live stock guardians

Great video. Keep up the good work.

Really nice....and important what you said at the end about us relying on LGDs x

Komondor dogs are pretty cool, still very much a working dog under the more unique coat if you appreciate the aesthetics

Great video!

Keep up the Good Work

Perfect top 5.My favorite is Sentral Asian Shepard (ALABAI)

dang! Nice editing😁

There are very good lgd´s in Romenia and in Portugal, it´ll be very nice if you made some videos about that breeds.

Great video. I’m from Texas and it’s so hot it looks like the Kangal or Anatolian would be best for the climate.

Great video! I've had many lgd and they are fabulous dogs. I currently have an akbash x kuvasz x pyrenees (looks and exhibits the akbash behaviors) and she's the best hiking buddy. I've owned 3 great Pyrenees. 2 of them were certified therapy dogs. I also owned a pyrenees x collie which was very friendly. And an anatolian shepherd cross which was also certified therapy dog. I've met an armenian gamper on a sheep farm, what a dog! My friend got some marema cross, they are fantastic too! All of this to say that I'm sold on lgds, they are the bestest dog

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The Spanish Mastiff deserves to be on this list.

Recommend watching Caucasian shepherd documentary, here on youtube. Type in search and watch them in their own territory, on Caucasia

Have you done a video in Gull Terr yet? I liked through your playlists but didn't see one.

Doing a lot of research on this recently bed I’m planning on going semi off-grid within the next two to three years. I’m leaning heavily towards the Kangal for livestock protection as I’m going be keeping a good number of livestock.

Love your channel bro!

I'd love to see one on the nomadic breed such as the azawakh! They seem really rare in the USA and I can't find any good info on them

I own a beautiful boy that is mixed breed of kangal akbash bouvier des Flanders he is a great protector of his family I find his mixed with other guardians make him one of a kind

Great list but I think you should've done a top 10 because there's many dogs that are as good or almost as good as these 5.

Do you have a video on history and difference between Anatolian Shepherd and [Sivas] Kangal ?

If you are looking for "science" Coppinger did a study about livestock guardians. He used 3 breeds and 2 crosses: Maremma sheepdog, Anatolian shepherd, Sarplaninac, MaremmaxSarplaninac, AnatolianxSarplaninac. Of course they were all working dogs, not from show kennels. At the end they were all good, but a bit of preference for the Maremma can be seen, of course the real Maremma sheepdogs, who live in the italian region Abruzzo. The category studied were: aggressiveness to sheeps, attachment to the flock and effectiveness of protection.

Beautiful dogs. I am looking for a breed fit for goats, sheep and chickens. Something that can work in heat and cold. Arizona gets hot and up north some cold nights. We get a lot of coyotes and mt lions. I would need one that is built like a tank but gentle with our animal's. What would be the best breed? God bless

What would be the best dog to guard livestock from dogs and people as that’s the only predators where I’m from.

Anatolian Shepherd Central Asian Shepherd Spanish Mastiff

Very informative video. It would help if you mentioned the life span of each breed.

I have a 3 year old kangal and a 1 year old Great Pyrenees , the Pyrenees already beats up his big brother and proves to be the leader he’s a great dog , he stays active all night barks constantly and if a predator comes close to our sheep or chickens and they get too close they will chase the predator until they kill it

I always wanted to know the difference between an Anatolian Shepherd and the Kangal

Imo Bakarwals are pretty good lgds aswell, but they're almost unheard of

Kangal and anatolian are the same breed. Also, you might want to take a look at the romanian livestock guardian breeds

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Kangal is my fav too but the differences with anatolian are so small you missed a chance to rapresent some other breed too. Spanish Mastif, Dog de Bordeaux, Caucasian, Karst and Illyrian sheperd or Tornjak could fit very well or even something different like a Maremma sheperdog.

What about caucaisian sheperd. ofatcharka there good guardian

I apologize in advance because this is off top, do you have any knowledge of the Laizhou Hong. I would have emailed this question if I knew where to email it

Will you do the Boz shepherd

One reason great Pyrenees’s make such great family pets is that they were essentially made to hate nonhuman predators but allow people to pass. Many Pyrenees’s work where there are many people who pass, although they will often bark at the person and deter them from getting close to the flock they rarely attack people. They also vary rarely chase people. Ok n the other hand if you’re a wolf, fox, coyote, etc..you’ll probably want to run.

All these dogs are amazing with true talent! But the kangal steals my heart. Those dogs are very devoted to there job.

I have two Kangals. Best dogs in the world. They require a lot of outdoor space, however. They are not suitable for suburban or apartment living.

Under number three you mention the Tibetan Mastiff, while the Šarplaninac (colorful dog) appears on the video. The Šarplaninac is a little-known breed that definitely should have been on the list of the top 5 livestock guardian dogs as well as caucasian sheperd.

Good if you could do a vid on Sarabi Mastiff from Iran

I have 7 Irish wolfhound kangal mix. at my Ranch.... with the average weight of 170 lbs..... I don't have problems with wolves anymore

maybe you can do a talk on the biggest livestock guardian dog from turkey the AKASARAY MALAKLISI..close region where the kangal and the anatolian shepherd area is..i never hear about that breed.. i have read that the breed is the biggest of them all..bigger than the kangal or anatolian....thank you for your time mr dogumentary...

Great Pyrenees are amazing and I would have placed them on top of the list. Unlike other breeds, they stay with the livestock at all times. Also, the Alabai is great for guarding against bird predators as well as land ones, they mark their territory and don’t wonder off like other breeds do.

Great Pyrenees are much bigger than what the internet says. My puppy is almost a year and already 115. He will end up between 140 to 160. Thats about the weight most run. Although ive seen many that are an in shape 180 to over 200 pounds

Which one would be best for area that gets really hot in the summers? Any?

The Caucasian Ovchaka Shepard should be on this list.

Does the Tibetan mastiff have mane like hair over the shoulders and down the back?

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you chose the 1st thumbnail 😆

I own 2 Great Pyrenees!! Wonderful dogs who are definitely awake at night

Croatian tornjak is in my opinion the best dog for this job. He can fight off 2 wolves,and legends say 2 tornjaks can safely defend flock from a wolf pack or even bears. Check it out

I thought the Anatolian Shepherd was also know as the Kangal? Please explain the difference?

Difference between Kangal and Anatolian? Seem extremely similar

What Anatolian shepherd and kangal are different breeds?

Namibia not Not Nambia.......great video none the less!

Is there a short haired livestock guardian?

What about the Armenian Gampr ??the one and only LGD

I don’t have a dog or farm homestead but if I did I’ll have those 5 breeds

Can you have a male Akita with a bunch of female ?

2:36 and 2:56, It is Šarplaninac .It is a shepard dog from Yugoslavia/Macedonia. Šar planina is a mountain and border between Serbia and Macedonia. That's how the name Šarplaninac came about. That means, Šar planina, that is Šarplaninac, it means a dog from Šar planina, Šarplaninac...

There are quite a lot of huge dog breeds in Middle East region that mostly has not been not talk about or not a lot of people knows about, these are a list of some of them Caucasian Shepherd Dog : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pblkpdioyZy3ZIU.html Turkmen alabai kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bJaVl8mCzJ6ymKM.html Rusian central asian sheperd : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pbGoebmryNTSm4E.html Dagestan Volkodav: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mZuAoqx8qsWUc30.html Turkish boz : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/is2ZdbmBxKnJp6M.html Anatolian sheperd : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iJmTq85hs820knU.html Anatolian sheperd is no pure breed its a mix of all the Turkish breeds that why there is no standard in the height and weight in result of that some are huge Turkish akbaś: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rJ1yksJe1cXLpKM.html Turkish malakli kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sNJnpsKV0sDehmQ.html Iran sarabi dog kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iNeektehnaexZWg.html pishdar dog kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ld2Jldt-q8WRXX0.html afghanistan kuchi dog: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jM1zqJOSs9GvYaM.html And there are some more breeds

I don't think great Pyrenees should be at the second position on this list, nowadays it's hard to find good working great Pyrenees and even though they are very effective against bears that were always present in the Pyrenees mountains they lost their ability to protect sheep from wolves since they disappeared from France in the 50s. Now that the wolves came back in numbers and that shepherds had to use lgd dogs the number 1 casualties are the great Pyrenees. The Armenian gampr is definitely more effective since it's always been a working dog and not a pet.

Would you recomend any of these for home protection?

Romanian shepherd excellent guard!

The Caucasian Shepherd In my opinion is one of the best life stock guardians

My top 5 great pyrenees, spanish mastiff, central asian shepherd, caucasian shepherd, turkish kangal, the reason tibetan mastiff and anatolian shepherd arent here is becaue in my opinion they are just worn down versions of kangal and caucasian shepherds, anatolian shepherd was descended from kangal and the tibetan mastiff is mostly a luxury dog these days rather than a livestock guardian

Why is the Kangal in the number one spot while the Anatolian is on the fifth?

In the film shooter it was a broholmer not an anatolian shepherd .

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I'm a native romanian and I grew up near sheep, cattle and everything nedeed on a homestead farm. We had shepherd dogs, native romanian, German shepherds and hunting hounds, transylvanian hound. I still keep in touch with friends and relatives in the country side, high hills region with sheep been kept high in the mountains, involved in keeping sheep. Conclusions: - kangal, central Asia and Caucasians fight a lot among themselves. They do not cope with native dogs. They also hurt each other pretty bad. They do bad against bears. They go physical, get hurt and permanent fear from bears. They are too big and too slow to fight bears. They are also too big, slow and not enough stamina to keep with the sheep flocks on the steep mountains. They roam quit a lot and all three breeds, when they are more, they roam the woods at night and kill wolfs. No good for environment. Young ones, alone, get lost in dense woodlands. Also the young ones, during wolf night attacks are lured by wolfs in to the woods and eaten. They are quit aggressive against people. From the mastif/molloser breeds the best results, except the native breeds - carpathian shepherds and mioritic shepherd, have been notice in mastino espagnol, but only for wolfs, not bears. And also not high up in the mountains, only in medium high hills and in the traditional pastoral way of keeping sheeps. The best sheepdogs are the one adapted to your geography, local predators and way of keeping sheep. Take also in mind that sheepdogs work in packs. You need them to work together, not fighting and hurting each other. Also having to manny dogs in a packs will make them lazy and they will fight to much. Wise shepherds in my native country are trying to balance the back with medium light dogs, especially females, hard working how are patroling constantly the saroundings especially when flocks are moving. Wolfs and bears attach during the day too. They also need to be brave and aggressive enough to block the wolfs until the big muscle come. And you need big boys too. Several males how can go physical in case the wolfs are pushing. Also, a good shepherd dog against wolfs is not alwaysgood against bears. Big dogs are good against bears. In our native country, the wolf type dogs, FCI group 1 dogs performs better then mollosers. In other countries, mollosers do. Depends on geography, predators and way of doing your business. All the best.

Highest success rate of lgds on my list 1-Kangal and Alabai 2-Ovcharka 3-Malakli

I have a mixed. Breed of most beautiful dogs kangal Bouvier des Flander akbas

We have a GP mix and she’s amazing.

I wouldn’t put the Great Pyrenees or Anatolian in the top 5, top 15 in my opinion but the rest no complaint

Hello from Europe. How did you end up with those conclusions? What did you measured or what did you take into account to make this top? I have also notice that you took in to your top only molloser dog breeds. Why do you think molloser sheepdogs are better?

You need to add the lifespan and size in weight of the breeds.

Of course yes kangal and anatolian the best

The only negative point about the Kangal is that they wonder around abandon the flocks. for lonh periods durring the day.

Kengal and Anatolian Shepard are basically the same dog... ib have a caucasian ovcharka... they're unmatched

I think the best dogs for this job are the Balkan breeds of sheepdogs. Sarplaninac, Greek, Karakachan, Mioritic, Bukovina shepherd dogs. The reason I say so is because these dog breeds never ever stopped of having contact with wolves and bears. They were and more than others still are part of nomadic herding. Nomadic herding and life conditions of these dogs were or still to are, very harsh, resulting, by natural selection, to rouget, healthy, fearless dogs. I very much doubt if Western livestock guardian dogs, like the pyrenees, Maremma, Spanish Mastif had for centuries bred to, or have, actually confronted wolves. Or if they were part of nomadic herding flocks. I did not forget Kangals or Central Asian shepherds. I think they are of too aggressive nature

I like this channel, especially the videos about working dogs. That said, there is a lot of misinformation in this particular video. I will say that humans should quit trying to turn every breed into a pet, mainly in America. None of these dogs should be used as a pet.