The guy we use to take our mohair to for weight and shipping to Texas had one of these dogs..beautiful. One shearing season when we went their dog had a large cast of its back leg...someone shot it, but the vet dug the bullet out and the dog was getting along fine with the cast. He had a lot of property and a very large flock of Angoras. His wife is the one that taught me to skin a goat using an air compressor and razor blade. Easy to do...her husband hated skinning a goat if they found one dead in the pasture....so she had to figure out a way to do it herself..
**White wool was favoured in Roman times and consequently dogs were selected for white colour, leading to breeds such as the Kuvasz and Pyrenean Mountain Dog, typically of 35-65 kg (de la Cruz 1995). Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella in res Rustica (65 CE) and Macius Terentius Varro in Res rusticae (36 BCE) wrote that white dogs were preferred as they could be distinguished from wolves and other predators; modern authors have suggested that coloured dogs pre-dated the ability to wash white wool and dye it in various colours. There is evidence, though, that livestock themselves may have been at least partially involved in selecting the dogs that guarded them, as they were seen to be more comfortable with the dogs that most resembled them in appearance (reviewed in Taylor 2000).**