The Maremma Sheepdog is a white stock guard dog.

Maremmas as a breed are used for stock protection such as for sheep, goats, other farm animals including poultry. If the Maremma is to be used to guard poultry or other birds they should begin the bonding at an early age or purchase the dog from someone who uses the dogs for poultry.

They have been used in Italy for over 2,000 years to protect livestock from attacks from wolfs and as homestead protection. Here in Australia they are used to keep foxes, wild dogs and even eagles away from livestock.

A Maremma that is raised with livestock from an early age will think they are part of the flock and will protected the flock from attack.

"They are an independent thinking breed and like to make their own minds up about different situations so are not very obedient."

Working dogs need to be feed daily and supervised as they mature, by the age of 3 years you should have a successful working dog that will look after your livestock for about 10 years.

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