The Zerdava, (Georgian: მეკვერნე) is an aboriginal laika dog breed native to Black Sea region of Turkey and Georgia. Zerdava are traditionally used as guard and hunting dog and are especially prized for boar hunting. The name “Zerdava” is Slavic for mustelid, possibly in reference to their Marten-brown color or their treeing behavior when hunting martens. Zerdava are a spitz breed with a compact, athletic body, triangular, upright ears and a curved tail. They have a double coat that is always liver brown or a combination of liver brown and white. The brown is described as marten-like in color, they may be solid liver or a combination of liver and white, such as liver and white-ticked except white tip of tail, piebald, ticked, or liver roan. At birth, the brown is often almost black in color and the white parts are without ticking. Zerdava will have brown noses and yellow-brown eyes. Their sickle shaped tails are usually white tipped and any brown spots will be the same shade of brown as the rest of their body. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)