RUSSIA: MOSCOW: GUARD DOG SHOW TO PROMOTE CRIME PREVENTION
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When it comes to dogs, for Russians size is everything.
For the people at Sunday's Guard-dog show in Moscow, a poodle is not a pet, but
something to feed to your Great Dane.
Muscovites paraded their favourite breeds, domestic and foreign.
A chance for guard dogs to strut their stuff in Moscow for the Guard-Dog show.
Any dog could attend, but it was the huge breeds, Dobermans, Rotweilers and Great Danes as well as Russian breeds like the ever-popular Caucasian Shepherd and North Ossetian Shepherd that proved the most popular.
Big dogs are proving very popular in today's Russia.
And participants of the show confessed that their dogs are good friends as well as good
bodyguards.
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"It is my personal opinion that a dog should be big and should defend you and be your friend and maybe we need them because of the situation in our country."
But the dogs were more than show, one stunt involved a dog finding a man hiding in a hole.
While some dogs demonstrated how they help in the heat of battle.
But it was the role as man's best friend, where some dogs displayed their best stuff, as guard dogs.
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"I dog should defend, but he should be trained well to do so. A dog can defend children."
The winner overall was a four-year old Caucasian Shepherd.
The Guard Dog show was organised by the Moscow city government as part of a larger plan to help citizens fight crime.
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