Our national selection centre for Italian guardian dogs is a leading kennel foranti-wolf guardiandogs.

In particular, we deal with traditional Italian shepherding breeds, the result of Italian ancient pastoral traditions and vivid expression of the biodiversity in Italy.

Our anti-wolf guardian dog breeding program aims at limiting the conflicts between the zootechnical and the primitive world. 

The goal is to enable the coexistence of wolves and sheep farming. Our work has a strong economic impact on the typical rural cheese production chain and amplifies the concept of possible coexistence between predators and domestic livestock,thanks to the prevention of damage.

We breed Italian guardian dogs, and our kennel is a reference point within the market niche that we occupy.

Maremma  Sheepdogis, numerically speaking, the King of these breeds. The innovation lies in having believed in the breeding peculiarities of SilaShepherd (Calabria), Cane Fonnese (Sardinia) and SpinodegliIblei (Sicily), ancient traditional breeds, officially recognized by ENCI (National Italian Cynophile Authority) i, that guarantee biodiversity and variability of herd defense options, to be offered to whom looks after sheep farming or to whom wants to protect their livestock.

The tradition is in the service of a current set of problems, but reconsidered with scientific method, which we apply to our evaluations.

According to the Italian legislation, a breeding kennel with more than 5 dogs is subject to applicable laws and regulations, that don’t keep pace with the recently acquired notions in terms of animal wellbeing.

These regulations imply dogs being kept in cages for most of their lives, missing the opportunity of showing the behavioral pattern. However, although we do fulfill all the necessary requirements and offer sufficient number of covered cages, our dogs have 18 hectares of enjoyable areas available. Our dogs live in matriarchically structured groups, together with sheep, alpacas, bovines, donkeys, chickens, according to the type of livestock they are going to protect in their future lives. It is a specific and developmental imprinting process that takes place at an early age. This allow us to have a clear idea of our target; therefore, we are able to make our clients extremely satisfied of our reliable “gift”. Our breeding guarantees are superior to any other breeding kennel in Italy.

Our breeding kennelreuses sources of rainwater to cleaning purposes. Every by-product of business fodder processing is reused, hay used as bedding, wood used for the construction of panoramic/didactic pedestrian trails inside our property.

The business investments have diversified during the years, being more onerous, but also focused and efficient. They have extended from the total renovation and the construction of new external productive facilities (paddocks and fencings) and new internal productive facilities (boxes and nursery), built in full respect of the local landscape, reusing preexisting materials or using raw materials with low environmental impact.

To the present day we have built more than xx km of fencing, tree-lined paths, and refurbished the access to the woods.

We also have restructured and adapted barns and haylofts. The organic farm relies on 18 hectares, within woods and arable land. Our organic farm is European leader.

The wolf is back and is taking hold of abandoned spaces. This natural comeback is possible thanks to the great animal adaptability and the total protection, which was the legislator’s agenda to prevent the species extinction since the 70s. The wolf playsan ecologic and economic role, because it is an infallible ungulate predator; handsome, ethic, cultural, cruel, wild, but also spiritual, because it is a noble animal, free to represent a part of our culture, which can be found in fairytales, legends and traditions. Its presence, also where it has never been reported before, is advantageous because the wolf has always been a regulator ofwildlife. Its absence has been influential for the ungulate’s proliferation, which caused enormous agricultural damages. The beauty of the Italian landscape lies on the balance between natural, rural, urban and suburban landscape. The presence of the great predator is stable in suburbs areas of big cities.

Rome, as a popular tale narrates, was  founded by the twins Romolo and Remo, who were raised and fed by a she-wolf. In recent years, numerous wolves’ packs can be seen in Rome area, as well as in many more places including Abruzzo, Liguria, Piedmont and others, including more and more urban and sub-urban areas. There is no constant monitoring and we have the feeling that today the situation is not under control. Some breeding activities and particular environmental situations are subjected to continuous predations of sheep, goats, cattle and horses, causing serious economic damages, that are rarely quantified and even more rarely refunded by the Regions.

This conflict is more and more increasing and, like it often happens in Italy, counterposed factions unlikely find a solution that takes into account everyone’s reasons. Our position is well balanced, it focuses on the wolf and the mountain and pasture ecosystem. It is a fragile ecosystem, where the balancing elements have been prevention devices since many centuries.