Animals Beauty

The most expensive dog in the world – one-and-a-half-year-old Tibetan mastiff on a nickname of Yangtze II. The Chinese woman on a surname of Wang has got this dog for $600 thousand during the trip to boundary region of Tibet and a province Tsinghai. Apparently in a photo, the dog possesses in the impressive sizes: its growth in a nape makes about 90 sm, and weight – 69 kg. And it not a limit: are known mastiffs for weight in 80 kg. About it tells Telegraph.

Escort from 30 black “Mercedes” and representatives of local committee of dog breeders met the mastiff and its proprietress after their arrival in the airport of Sian in a province of Shaanxi. The honorable delegation bore a header with an inscription “Welcome, Yangtze II!” Yangtze – not the first dog of the same breed who is in possession of madam Wang. As she said, she long chose pair for the favorite, without looking at expenses. “Gold has a cost whereas this dog – is invaluable”, – the proprietress confirms.

Yangtze occurs from the well-known dynasty Tibetan mastiffs – one of the most rare and furious breeds in China and all over the world. In the homeland, in mountain Tibet, these huge dogs bear caretaking service, including protecting Buddhist monasteries.
Among well-founded Chineses this breed is considered a prestige symbol. In Great Britain the puppy Tibetan mastiff from a usual dynasty costs about 2 thousand dollars.

Cynologists consider mastiffs as one of five basic types of dogs, along with shepherds, fleet, pointers and lupoides. In spite of the fact that the most ancient dog bones are found on a place of settlements by age of 32-19 thousand years, the basic types appear not earlier than a bronze age, five millenia ago. At domestication at an animal the skeleton varies, in particular, the muzzle is shortened and becomes thicker, the tail is brief.