Serbian Defence Dog is the
perfect example of dog creation and trough it you can see how and why
these things come to life, from the imagination to an actual physical
entity. So this will be the story of its creation.
This is the official
description.
“"The Serbian
Defence Dog is a re-creation of the old Serbian Mastiff of
the Middle Ages, which became extinct during the early 20th century.
Initially disregarded as yet another "cocktail" breed, the
SDD is today deservedly a well-known and respected guardian in its
native Yugoslavia. It was developed by Nenad Gavrilovic, a Bosnian
herbalist and medicine man in the early 1980's, but the final
standard was written in 1991. Using his domesticated pack of Serbian
wolves, working Bosnian Tornjaks, German Rottweilers, Neapolitan
Mastiffs, American Staffordshire Terriers and game-bred Pit Bull
Terriers, Gavrilovic created a breed of immense physical strength,
fantastic guarding instincts and impressive fighting abilities. Even
though it wasn't created with the intention of being a gladiator, the
Serbian Defense Dog has achieved legendary status in the dog-fighting
circles for being an undefeatable canine warrior. Initial stock was
indeed tested in a traditional method of matching potential stud dogs
against a number of breeds, but once the bravest and strongest
examples were selected for further breeding, no further competitions
were held. However, the notoriety of early SOPs as excellent fighters
made the breed popular with the criminal element in the Balkans, in
whose grip the breed received not only some additional blood of other
breeds, but also somewhat of a bad name. Routinely defeating even the
most tenacious Pit-Bulls and other fighting breeds, it is believed by
many to be unfair matching the Srpski Odbrambeni Pas against any dogs
other than members of its own breed, but some fanciers consider this
ability to actually be a detractor from other qualities the breed
possesses, because the Serbian Defence Dog is a versatile Molosser,
capable of handling a great number of duties with ease, as well as
being a wonderful urban companion for responsible owners."
This story is a bullshit,
but the bullshit must be properly studied in order for the truth to
be revealed.
Gloves on,masks on and
lets dive.
First thing is that this
breed is the re creation of old Serbian Mastiff. As far as I know,
there is no such thing in our recorded history. Our records never
mention this type of dog or any dog for that matter. But for the sake
of argument, lets say that this idiot is right, that this breed
existed. He states that this breed got extinct in the early 20th
century. I find this to be an absolute bollocks. The Serbian history
is more or less, well documented and it is available on the internet.
If you look at the timeline you will see that from the beginning of
the 19th century till the early 20th century,
Serbia was in either in war or in some type of turmoil. And that
instability is not the right setting for someone to organise fun
doggy orgies in order to re create a piece of history, that never
actually existed. So he fails again on the history of the breed.
However, the breeder Nenad Gavrilovic is real and he is the herbalist from Bosnia. Herbalist and medicine man is a fancy word for a witch doctor or a shaman. For him, his beliefs might be the truth but for me they are magical thinking, aka the fantasy. So I think that his fantasy is the main cause for the creation of this dog. Wow, that was easy. Now lets go to the fantasy.
The dog is a status
symbol. But in the medieval ages, the role of these dogs was to
either be a war dogs or defend the sovereign or the monarch, since
only they could afford these dogs. Also they need to be fierce and
loyal to the one man and untrustworthy towards anyone else. They are
in other words, kings personal bodyguards. So where is the king there
is a throne and where is the throne there is a palace. But there is
no palace and there is no king, so why make the dog for a king that
doesn't exists? The only reason why you would make this breed is, if
you have the faith that the king will come and that palace will be
built and thus that the kingdom will be created. So for 10 years, the
shaman was preparing this gift for the future king. But in 1980
Yugoslavia was still an existing state and it didn't had a king, it
had a communist leader Josip Broz Tito.
Well almost, cause in the
1980 Tito died. Josip Broz Tito was the one and only man that was
holding the Yugoslavia together and after his death, the process of
disintegration started. Somehow I think that this was the main
trigger for the shaman to start his magic ritual. Why? Well because
the Socialistic Federative Republic of Yugoslavia was built up on
ashes of Kingdom of Yugoslavia that was burned down during the second
world war, and that kingdom was ruled by the Serbian monarch.
A brief history reality
check.
The second world war in
the Balkans wasn't the only war that was fought. The second world war
was a framework for multiple layers of other wars that were fought
within it. The first layer was the war for power, fought between
remains of Yugoslavian royal army that fought in the name of the King
and their goal was to create Greater Serbia and the communist
partisans whom fought for communist idea. The bet was, whom ever
survives the war, gets the right to rule. Than there is the third
layer, where all the nationalities in Yugoslavia were fighting for
their vision of the future. Croats wanted great Croatia, Bosnian
Muslims joined them in their fight against Serbian desire to create
great Serbia, Albanians in Kosovo wanted to create the Great Albania,
Bulgarians wanted to create Great Bulgaria, Hungarians also wanted
the Great Hungary and so on and so on. All this fighting were waged
with merciless brutality and savagery, causing rivers of blood and
mountains of bodies. Thanks to the allied help, the communist
partisans won the internal power struggle so when the war ended they
took the power. All those unsettled scores were pushed under the rug
and the whole thing was covered with massive avalanche of cash. Josip
Broz Tito balanced between east and the west, during the cold war and
was able to get the money from both sides. So when he died, and he
was the only guarantee of stability, the whole thing started to fall
apart. So as the money flow was cut off during the 80'es, all those
skeletons started to appear. The logical escalation was the
destruction of Yugoslavia in the remake of world war 2 hostilities.
And that was the thing
that the shaman felt, he saw the war coming. And that is why he made
the Serbian Defence Dog. But since Defence actually is another name
for war, the second name of the Serbian Defence Dog is Serbian War
Dog. But in the age of tanks and jets, the war dog is useless, so why
make one? Well if you think about the future, yeah, there is no need
for a war dog, but the entire Serbian nationalism is based on the
glorious past and the rebuilding of old glory days. So in that
context, the war dog, the king lap dog and the king body guard, the
king himself and the monarchy, all that is the part of that magical
thinking that was the base for the creation of pseudo history, up on
which the causes for war were formed. So after ten years, in 1991 war
broke out and the Serbian War dog was fully operational.
We all know the rest of the story.
We all know the rest of the story.
I enjoyed this history lesson.
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