Romanian Raven Shepherd Dog

The Romanian Raven Shepherd — Corb — is the black Carpathian flock guardian, and the most recently recognised of Romania's shepherd breeds.

History

It has worked the Carpathians alongside the white Mioritic and the Carpathian Shepherd, distinguished by its raven-black coat, and Romanian cynologists documented and standardised it only in the twenty-first century. Shepherds valued dark dogs for night work, where a white dog is visible to a wolf from further off.

Temperament

The breed is known for being calm, watchful and strongly territorial, bonded to its flock and household and reserved with strangers.

Care and training

It needs space, secure boundaries and early socialising, and it is unsuited to town life. The dense coat sheds heavily.

Health

Generally robust from working selection, with hip dysplasia among the known tendencies. These are patterns for the breed rather than a forecast for one dog; the measured facts are in the panel.