Dog breeding

A facility in the northwestern city of Bursa's Karacabey district has been preserving the genetic material of Kangal and Akbaş Turkish shepherd dogs, breeding and selling purebred dogs since 1996.

The General Directorate of Agricultural Enterprises' (TİGEM) facility welcomes around 200 puppies annually, with over 6,000 Turkish shepherd dogs sold over the past 28 years.

People wait for months to buy Turkish shepherd dogs being bred in the country's northwestern Bursa and eastern Sivas provinces.

Ioanna-Maria Gertsou is a psychologist at Aghia Sofia Children's Hospital, co-founder of the Lara Guide Dog School and an activist for people with visual impairments. She has survived some major ordeals during her life, but the one that she experienced earlier this month was among the worst.

A Kangal dog in a breeding center in the northwestern province of Bursa has a price tag of 125,000 Turkish Liras (20,000 euros).

An Italian regional councilor has called for using Turkey's giant Kangal shepherd dogs to protect flocks of sheep from the increasing number of wolves in Tuscany.

The police in Pernik detained a man on suspicion that he did not take sufficient care of his dogs, after 14 of them were found dead, the BNR reported.

A dog trader grows nearly 300 animals of different breeds in a room in the village of Malomir, in an illegal kennel. They live in something like cages in terrible conditions along with cows.

The owner is Hristo Manolov, who has dozens of ads on the internet selling dogs. The price is between 250 and 700 BGN.

The Oregon Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that a southern Oregon couple must quiet their incessantly barking dogs by sending them to the vet to have their voices surgically squelched.

A 49-year-old woman was hospitalized on Wednesday after she was mauled by two dogs in the town of Kalamata in the Peloponnese.

According to local reports, the woman was attacked by the two cane corso dogs, which had managed to get through the gate of their owners' yard, while she was walking along a street near the town center.

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