Bigpaws_Bear
Esteemed Citizen of ZV
I am from the country where this breed is quite common and it have really bad reputation.
This is very serious territorial guard dog with very high aggression level and not very human oriented.
Totally not suitable for flat keeping and I wouldn't recommend it for keeping it as "family dog".
They were breed as wolf-killers for protecting herds and are used in Russia now as yard guarding dogs.
That's fine by me, I own a small farm, I am not a city dweller. and to me it's just another "farm dog" type.
I doubt it's any more complicated than Owning a Male Akita which I have also owned, as well as wolfdogs.