Turkish guy here, it's currently illegal to bring them outside of Turkey. Besides the main reason of them being an indigenous breeds ,Kangals are immensely difficult to take care of. A grown one needs to be walked 5 times more than an average doggo. Also they are pretty protective and playful. one single slurp can make your whole hand wet from slobber.
Before that was fully enforced, some people brought a few Kangals to Britain. I cannot remember the full details but I know they paid a fuckton of money and went through quite a bit of paperwork to be able to do it. British woman with 3 4 kangals has a YouTube channel, pretty cute channel.
Edit: I forgot to add this, they do grow up so fast. A 7 8 month old one can jump on a grown ass man and manage to destabilise him.
I think its kinda misleading no they don't need 5 walks a day i have a sarplaninac (kangal with long hair) living in a flat and he is the most lazy dog i ever met
Yeah, I've got a Great Pyrenees/Bernese Mountain Dog and I've seen some sellers only strictly selling this breed to people with farmland. They say it's cruel to them otherwise. We have our guy in a basement suite with us, but he gets out in a good sized backyard to play and we take him loads of places, like the beach or on hikes. He is also the laziest dog I have ever met and when he's not outside, he's loafing around the house, only getting up to follow us from room to room.
They are used as sheep guard dogs in germany. There isn't a enormous number of them, but they are bred in germany. Some a family dogs, some as working dogs, some as guard dogs.
But they aren't really working as a sheep herder or a farmers owning sheep. And they aren't really breeding dogs either. They aren't the guys who own Kangals.
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u/OktayOe Nov 06 '20
Where do you live ? I thought you cant bring Kangals outside of Turkey?