“…There is a general scholarly consensus that these small-and medium-sized dogs were unsuitable for military purposes, for hunting big game or for protecting herds from large-bodied predators such as wolves and bears, and that they were too big to be cuddled as lap-dogs. However, as predators and scavengers, as well as owing to their pack mentality, they were useful for waste disposal, for guarding the settlement (barking), for herding domesticates and during hunts (for catching small game, as well as for sniffing out, chasing and rounding up big game) (Bartosiewicz 2002;Kyselý 2021).…”