At last! Last year (1999) I bred my first litter of fully registered Baraks! Some day, hopefully, this site will have a searchable database, but for now, this is their pedigree:

Repeated appearence of some common names (four Bizas here and five Baris) make pedigrees sometimes difficult to sort through...
One Bobi in the great-great-granparents generations was quite an exceptional dog, a show winner. He was lost during the war. These pups are also all quite likely to become champions - due to their rarity; and, take a look into the pedigree - miracuously, for a rare breed, they are not inbred!
All the puppies went to live in Lika, the hilly region of Croatia, all within 100 km of each other. Also, all but those that remained with me (one male and one female) will be hunting, mostly wild boars. and, finally, they will all live with 5-10 year old kids in the family - most Baraks that I have seen are genuine pets too, even those the most hard working.

A note on naming: most names are traditional dog names, like Bobi, Bara, Bina, Biza etc. Those have no meaning, but are simply two syllables put together (suitable for yelling across hills). Other names refer to the colour - Lisko (with a blaze), Nera (dark), Žućko (yellow). Mytholohical and history characters are also there - Medea, Cezar, Ero (from a Croatian comic opera). Another popular option is birds and trees - Sokol (falcon), Jastreb (goshawk), Čigra (tern), Ariš (larch), Breza (birch), Cer (oak). There are also some rivers and stars: Dobra (also means "good"), Cetina, Amur, Vega. Dogs are often given additional call names (those that are in brackets) or part of the registered name becomes a call name. Usually, "-a" endings signify female names. The hope is that names will be more varied but stay simple and never become artificially orientalized as say (warning: invented derogatory name - do not try it on anydog) Govinda's Zdrapiga Bedakast. You never know into what tongue's tricks one can fall into... even us Croats (our languages differentiate less than American from English) do not know all Bosnian curse and bad words (and there are lots, and imaginative ones, trust me, in both our tongues) as some are of Turkish origin.

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