Review
As a representative of dogs with extremely high combat effectiveness, the value of Tibetan mastiffs was once extremely high.
At that time, it was believed that the Tibetan mastiff was the representative of China's "sacred dog", and that when the owner encountered danger, a Tibetan mastiff could withstand the attack of a wild wolf. Therefore, in just 20 years, the price of Tibetan mastiffs has risen from hundreds of pieces to tens of millions, and it has even been called "Oriental Sacred Dogs" by a group of dog people who love Tibetan mastiffs.
But when encountering danger, can the Tibetan mastiff really be more effective than a group of wild animals? Let's find out today!
Valuable Tibetan mastiff
How valuable is a Tibetan mastiff? In 2014, at a Tibetan mastiff exhibition in the southwest region, a Tibetan mastiff named "Tianlong" stood out, and "Tianlong" conquered the buyer with its mighty size, and the buyer bid 8 million yuan to take it home.
In the face of such a high interest temptation, the owner of the Tibetan mastiff gritted his teeth and did not agree. So, how exactly did the high-priced Tibetan mastiff get hyped?
Here we have to talk about one person, Ma Junren, China's former track and field head coach, who led the Chinese women's long-distance running team to win 3 gold medals at the 1993 World Championships in athletics. Of course, he also created an "excellent result" of 6 out of 7 people on a team of doping.
Since retiring from the doping campaign in 2004, Mr. Ma has used his fame to enter the dog market and become the president of the Chinese Tibetan Mastiff Association, and his purpose is simple, to hype his own Tibetan mastiff dog.
He said, "In the past, foreigners always criticized Chinese the concept of not having pets, thinking that we were backward, and today I want to prove that what foreigners play, we can also play Chinese, and we play with Tibetan mastiffs, not your sheepdogs." Because in front of my Chinese Tibetan mastiff, all foreign breeds are not worth mentioning, and we want to cultivate it to become the champion of the world dog competition." ”
In order to brag about the value of the Tibetan mastiff, he will always appear in various selection competitions for the "mastiff king".
Teacher Ma's own Tibetan mastiff breeding base, there are 128 Tibetan mastiffs, according to him, their Tibetan mastiff base is the largest in the world, each one is purebred, you are in China, is anywhere in the world, it is impossible to find such a high purity of goods.
Finally, under the vigorous marketing of Teacher Ma, the price of Tibetan mastiffs took off in situ.
Is the Tibetan mastiff really comparable to that of wild animals?
Talk about whether a dog is strong or not, we must measure its combat effectiveness through its information in all aspects. I found some information.
First of all, in terms of bite force, the top three are rottweilers, Japanese Tosa and Newpoliton dogs, whose bite force is up to 296 pounds, and as for the Tibetan mastiff, it has not even broken through the top ten, and the bite force is only 186.3 pounds.
It is said that tibetan mastiffs are not afraid of jackals, wolves, tigers and leopards, and can defeat many kinds of beasts of prey. Among the many beasts of prey on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the Bengal tiger, which is reasonably the largest, has a value of 1025.24 pounds, not to mention any gray wolves, snow leopards, etc., even the red fox with a low force value has a bite force of two hundred pounds, which shows that this rumor is also self-defeating.
The Tibetan mastiff is a strong and fierce dog, but the wild beast adapts to the wild environment, has strong physical strength and cunning thinking, knows how to ambush the most effective, which part of the prey is the most deadly, whether various animals have or no ability, and so on.
Leopards, for example, have a variety of ways to kill their prey quickly, and they also have amazing speed, lying in a tree waiting for the prey to approach and then falling from the sky to quickly bite off the neck vertebrae of the prey, a process that takes only a few seconds.
Another example is the wolf, who is accustomed to hunting in a group to hunt the prey, has extraordinary physical ability, and is extremely cunning, will use the method of deception to deceive the opponent, will use the method of false lame to confuse the other party, and when the team fights, it will also cover the opponent, and fight in a small number of ambushes and other combat methods.
The mothers of these wild carnivores and the difficult environment in the wild have given them greater abilities than specially trained animals such as military monkeys and police dogs.
Tibetan mastiffs really fight with these animals, not to mention the physical factors such as bite force and weight, just by virtue of wolves, leopards and other carnivores familiar with many sets of hunting methods, Tibetan mastiffs pounce on each other's throats, dig out each other's internal organs and other skills will be more skilled than these carnivores?
Of course not, although the Untrained Tibetan Mastiff can roughly know with its own experience what position to attack will cause more damage to the opponent, but in the battle with the "killer" shaped by nature, the Tibetan mastiff has no time to kill the opponent himself.
From the pursuit of thousands of people to "a place of dog hair"
For outsiders, they are always endowed with a noble and proud attribute, because in the 90s of the last century, Tibet was a sacred and mysterious place for many people, most inland people have never seen this mastiff, it is rare and rare for them, so the production of such a mighty dog here also has its own noble attributes.
Although the local Tibetans only regarded them as watchdogs and guard dogs, this did not affect the praise and worship of outsiders.
In 2010, a Tibetan mastiff called "Khampa One" sold for 2 million, and the buyer even used 30 Audis to welcome it. At the 2014 Luxury Pet Show held in Hangzhou, a real estate owner bought two Tibetan mastiffs for 18 million yuan, and the house price in Hangzhou at that time was about 15,000 yuan, that is, two dogs directly topped 10 suites in Hangzhou.
At this time, Tibetan mastiffs can no longer bark dogs, more like a "living luxury". As long as you have a Tibetan mastiff, then this is a symbol of your status and wealth.
The fact that a watchdog can sell for tens of thousands is unimaginable to many Tibetans. Many locals have taken a fancy to the commercial value and have begun to become Tibetan mastiff farmers.
Sadly, in fact, many gold lord fathers buy Tibetan mastiffs just to be happy, they may not like dogs at all, nor do they have dogs, just to support the card. Once the best breeding period has passed, the price of Tibetan mastiffs will be greatly reduced.
The depreciation rate is very fast, and no one will spend a lot of money to buy it, and the final result is that the Tibetan mastiff "bubble" economy bursts, and the Oriental God Dog falls to the altar. Many of the breeding Tibetan mastiffs have since become stray dogs, and even the worst will be sold by farmers to dog meat dealers to return the money. How could the financiers who had bought them at a sky-high price think that it would now become a delicacy on someone else's table?
epilogue
It is undeniable that the Tibetan mastiff itself is indeed a very good dog breed, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a sacred dog in the hearts of Tibetans. Unfortunately, he became a victim of the rich's capital game, a tool of wealth. After round after round of hype and marketing, too much value was given to it that did not belong to itself, which eventually led to the disillusionment of the Tibetan mastiff economy.
But only when it is broken can people see its original form clearly. The Tibetan mastiff is not dark gray, nor should it be a myth, it is just a dog, a guard dog guarding the Tibetans, a guard dog.