The following short article was published in the Anatolian Times in Volume 3 in 1999. Pictures of both Shadow and Autumn, my two working female guardians, appear in that Volume. Autumn made the cover and is shown guarding goats. Shadow, who is also guarding goats, is on page 19, where the article appears.

The article describes Shadow's reaction to having her goats handled by someone other than me when she was eight months old. I believe this example illustrates the emotional control seen in good working Anatolians. Although Shadow initially seemed out of control with anger when she was moving Matt out of the pasture, the fact that she stopped barking and returned to the goats the moment he was out the gate clearly shows that Shadow used the force necessary to achieve her objective but was in complete emotional control of her actions. Regular dogs and guardians with poor emotional control (hopefully neutered), once stirred up, tend to continue barking out of control even though the preceived danger is past.