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...full-time ranchers in sheep and cattle who are opposed to the use of toxicants [Aug. 10] in the control of predators. We have four Komondor guard dogs on the payroll, and they keep our livestock safe. If the zealots succeed in polluting the range with the chemical Compound 1080, our dogs will be the first victims, long before the wily coyote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Air Controllers | 9/7/1981 | See Source »

...favorite breed, the Hungarian Komondor, is a big, lovable-looking beast as shaggy as a sheep. Komondors have been protecting flocks from wolves for centuries in Hungary. Now they are standing guard over American sheep in more than two dozen states from the Rockies to New England. Other Old World breeds are beginning to appear on U.S. ranches as well: the Anatolian shepherd; the Great Pyrenees from the mountains between France and Spain; the Italian Maremma; the Yugoslavian shepherd of Shar Planinetz; and the Kuvasz, a short-haired Hungarian cousin of the Komondor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Sheepmen Are Going to the Dogs | 6/1/1981 | See Source »

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