Maremma

The maremma is a breed of livestock guardian dog that originated in central Italy nearly two thousand years ago. ❋ Unknown (2009)

_O pescatore da maremma_, and led by Mr. Badcock, who wore a wreath of seaweed a-cock over one eye and waved a dripping basket of sea-urchins. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

The west wind blew strong; the clouds were heavy; now and then the moon shone on a sullen sea; now and then the darkness broke over rank maremma vapours; at times he heard the distant bellowing of the herds, at times he heard the moaning of the water; mighty cities, lost armies, slaughtered hosts, foundered fleets, were underneath that soil and sea; whole nations had their sepulchres on that low, wind-blown shore. ❋ 1839-1908 Ouida (1873)

Their passions, tumultuous and merciless as the Tyrrhene Sea, raged indeed with the danger, but also with the uses, of naturally appointed storm; while ours, pacific in corruption, languish in vague maremma of misguided pools; and are pestilential most surely as they retire. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

Alps, and still more, of the sheets of snow on their southern slopes, which supply the refreshing streams of Lombardy: -- the equally steady increase of deadly maremma round Pisa and Venice; and other such phenomena, quite measurably traceable within the limits even of short life, and unaccompanied, as it seemed, by redeeming or compensatory agencies. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

More importantly, the chooks have live-in guardians - six maremma sheepdogs who protect them from predators. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Egg-laying chooks that roam the land have six guardians - maremma sheepdogs MEET some of the happiest hens in the world. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mr Chapman's maremma livestock dogs live on his Bungawalbin tea tree plantation with his flock of sheep, only interacting with their owner for feeding. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Sentine: A file photo of a maremma dog guarding a flock of goats. ❋ Unknown (2010)

CRAIG CHAPMAN has only lost one sheep to a wild dog attack in the last eight years, and it's all thanks to his two maremma dogs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Her name was Bella, and she was a maremma - a large white dog of Italian heritage. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But for the Corrie family at Forest Reefs, it is their two maremma dogs that protect their ❋ Unknown (2009)

Although I like this little villa much better, I would gladly see the place again, and enjoy with you, as we did before, the vast expanse of woodlands and mountains and maremma; frowning fortresses inexpugnable; and others more prodigious for their ruins; then below them, lordly abbeys, overcanopied with stately trees and girded with rich luxuriance; and towns that seem approaching them to do them honour, and villages nestling close at their sides for sustenance and protection. ❋ Walter Savage Landor (1819)