阿连特茹牧羊犬
Rafeiro do Alentejo
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👁形貌
The Rafeiro is a large dog, slightly longer than it is tall, with a broad chest. The head is massive; the eyes are small and dark, the ears small, triangular and hanging. The coat is dense and straight, of short or medium length. It may be black, fawn, wolf grey or yellow, either brindled or not, but always with white markings; or may be white marked with these colours. It is not as thick as the coat of other pastoral dogs such as the Polish Tatra.
📜源流
The Rafeiro is a traditional flock guardian dog of the Alentejo region of southern Portugal. Dogs of this type were used to protect flocks during the biannual transhumance to high summer pastures in the mountains, and then back to the lowlands for the winter. In the late nineteenth century they began to be known as Rafeiro do Alentejo. : 253 The earliest breed standard dates from 1953; the breed was definitively accepted by the Fédération Cynologique Internationale in the following year. Among the marked economic and social changes in Portugal in the 1970s was the large-scale movement of peopl