Hi Josh,
First I want to remember that I help with an online translator, because my English is not good, so forgive the errors.
Is also right to say that I am always looking for my type of Cane Corso. I don't breed for many years, so I have not fixed my type. In each of my dogs, think and hope, that we can see "something" for my ideal type of Cane Corso.
I was not there 30 or 50 years ago in the countryside of southern Italy. I have not come all southern Italy on foot, every farm, to see which was the type of Cane Corso present at the time.
I do not try to do a museum in my house.
When I fell in love with the Cane Corso, it was the nineties years, years of Boris, Claus, Rubens, were still the years of Basir and Dauno and their first children .. and I remember well that they not resemble the majority of dogs that I see today.
I'm in love with a type of Cane Corso that resembled the Neapolitan Mastiff years fifties, and that certainly was one of his close relative.
I love dogs obedient, ready to respond to commands from the master, affectionate, strong .. Dogs do not get sick easily, females that reproduced with ease and raise their puppies with maternal love.
Someone had dysplasia, it is true, but they didn't have so many heart problems as those we see today .. Males could still breed alone, had no need of artificial insemination. The dental closures were of all types , often scissor bite. I did not open his mouth, the mouth of all the dogs in the pictures of the first books published in the race, I do not have their X-ray hips and elbows, but I can look at those photos, almost all the dogs at first, and see in them something of "family" ... Those were the dogs when I was in love .. That was, and I want to remain forever, my Cane Corso. Today we breed often, only dogs "for sale", with all the cards in place, with at least one sample relative to exposure, but those dogs look like dogs more Cane Corso? No. .. Is not a question of teeth, is not a question of only a particular, is a question of all, a matter of " true standard" .. Today, very often, we lost "type" .. If you look at a dog race today, very often do not have the heart, the feeling of being in front of the same breed of twenty years ago, and this is not possible.
We started with a lie, saying that all Cane Corso were "prognati" , and we continued with many other things ... the eye as dark as possible, the absence of white, then we have reduced stature, we tried to get X-rays of dogs with excellent and good in training of defense, and then we started to compare our shepherd breed dogs.
The Cane Corso has never been a German shepherd, has never been so quick to obey an order, but is always obeyed, even without lessons. The Cane Corso has always been a dog of heart. Was a mastff light. Today it seems often a dog without identity.
We want a Cane Corso light and functional, we want good in the tests of IPO, we want to compare to so many other races, and we raised just to compare it to others and then to sell, to sell, to sell ..
I breed for myself, I breed dogs that like first of all to me, not to the standard, not to the judge.I breed dogs looking back to the early Corso Dogs, breed to not lose that kind of dog that I fell in love. That's my point of reference, and when I think I'm losing, I try to recover it immediately.
There isn't blood line that I was inspired. I work a lot on the blood of Pit degli Olmi, father of my Maia and my other dogs, and now using the blood of Romario Bailando Lobos with which he has the blood of Rubens in his veins, but also the dogs of Umberto Leone, Rocky and Pantera, and then many others which we all know .. Retico, Saddam, Claus ....
but the only one I've seen live, with my own eyes, and whose character I fell in love, and Pit, and greater emphasis on its blood. I do not watch a line of blood, I do not watch a pedigree .. I seek "type", I try to understand "with the heart", not with the meter, if the dog that I have before me like a Cane Corso, a generous dog, obedient and affectionate with the owner, a dog warden, a dog that gives a sense of security .. . These are the important things for me, and trying them try to improve all the other ... Health First of all, the character, to make it suitable not to win a race, but to live in my family and be a balanced dog before than a dog sportif. The photos of my dogs for the rest, talk much better than me ;-)
Best regards
Francesco
