With regard to such areas it has a special gift to choose a place for resting and watching from wich it can control main dangers-main directions and accesses to the guarded area.

Such an ability of its can be easily and quickly noticed. At night you just leave a sarplaninac in your courtyard which has to be enclosed.

After two or three nights, it will by itself define a safe orientation, therefore nobody has to explain that to it or to train it.

Regardless of the weather being cold, windy or snowstormy, it will not look for a hideout beneath the stairs, in a shed, or scratching the door of the house running away from coldness.

It is going to spend the night on the spot which is the best for watching, regardless of frost and storm.

The most frequently will it find such a spot on one of the main access paths or at the corner of the house from which it can control two different directions and take care of anyone or anything not be harmed by the nighttime.

Section of book ''Sarplaninac'' Obrad Skipic and Vesna Bojovic Skipic.