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Have you ever wondered how much you know about Cane Corso?
Do you think you know all the good and bad things about this wonderful breed?
It’s time to meet the breed in full! From Cane Corso general appearance, over history, temperament, breeding, how a dog should look, training, food, supplements, and to the deep dog’s age…
It’s time for no secret! Let’s allow all of us good advice. So we can all can work to improve the breed, by quality breeding and growing healthy puppies!
In order to get dice complex, lets start from the beggining:
Cane Corso general appearance
It’s well known that Cane Corso is a breed from Italy, a medium to large dog. Weighting up to 45 kilograms ( 100 pounds ) for females and up to 50 kilograms ( 110 pounds ) for males. It is a dog that is not taller at withers than 66cm ( 26 inches) for a female and not taller at withers than 70 cm ( 28 inches ) for a male. The most important characteristic of Cane Corso general appearance is that dog is well balanced in proportions and weight/tall. With good substance what makes a dog completely as appearance.
Cane Corso is working dog!
It means that dog needs to be agile, with good movement, in the modern age is mostly used as protection dogs. The dog is distinguished by a high level of intelligence, robust and sturdy but with elegance in all; with lean and powerful muscles it makes the perfect guardian dog.
This dog should have a very strong character, but be “clear in the head”, with no signs of aggression and no signs of shyness, should be very stable, and adaptable to all situations and spaces. Next to the good genetic – bloodline, will come how people will do socialization with the dog.
Socialization
Social life is a very important characteristic for all dog breeds, as well as for Cane Corso, too. It means that from a young age Cane Corso puppy should meet different people, dogs, sounds, cars, traveling and smells, and different spaces, so become adapted to everything. Everything will become to the puppy’s mind normal and you will not get a negative reaction from the puppy after a while until the puppy is adapted; it’s very similar to the human, with babies at a young age what we do. We can teach a puppy to become normal, become strong, and calm but only with a strong character if the puppy has a genetic predisposition to be. Socialization is one very big theme that I will write about latter in some other lesson.
The face is a mirror of a man.
The face is a mirror of a CANE CORSO, too!
All that character, calm, the quantity of power, and agile ability a dog has to show in expression – in the face. Cane Corso’s face not needs, but must to shows all of it. For me, it’s one of the most important characteristics of the breed. A dog shows you its intentions if you are in a situation where you are on the dog’s property and your family is not there. You see in that face that dog is ready to fight with you until the end. Dog protects its property, what you are looking there when no one isn’t home? If you are smart, you will give up and get off from there. Be sure that real Cane Corso will protect its property and no one cant mess around with it.
When you see this kind of Cane Corso on the street but you are a breed lover, what you can think or tell except:
“Wow, your dog is beautiful, I like it”
Just imagine the reverse situation about the Cane Corso expression. You see the dog on the street, dog has round bulbs eyes, ears set low with no attention, with a thin muzzle, and with a lot of fat skin and wrinkles on the head, you may think:
“Excuse me, what breed is this dog?”
Its the worst situation Cane Corso owners may come in with strangers, and conversation may continue badly, like:
Owner: “It’s Cane Corso”
Stranger: “It doesn’t look like…”
Owner: “You have no idea about it, this dog has champion bloodline…”
Stranger: “Thank you, bye!”
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Stranger: “What an idiot.”
Owner: “Stupid guy.”
Probably you heard somewhere from somebody as well as me something similar. With this, I just want to explain how important is expression and how much it attaches importance to the general appearance.
I am not a person who makes the breed, but there is a standard and each dog breed has to have a recognizable face, they are all different. If we want to improve the breed, then we should follow standard proportions and quality selection.
Did you know that Cane Corso is a family & calm dog, the dog who will show you eternal life, joy, and happiness; did you know that Cane Corso is very gentle with the children?
It’s well known that they are amazing with children.
Only if we speak about real dogs with all characteristics they should have. They are very gentle and full of tolerance when playing with kids, even, kids can walk them, and they can grow up together as best friends.
It’s very hard to describe how they are gentle and tolerant with the kids. Because you need to feel that energy by yourself looking at them, it just can be described with simple words – its love, mutual love.
If you are not sure about the characteristics of your dog, if you feel at least the smallest suspicion that your dog can hurt a child, do not leave your dog to the kid’s hand…
Cane Corso does not require much time for attention if we speak about adult one – not Cane Corso puppy. Few hours per day, walk or so, but if you want to make serious training. The dog is ready to do it very seriously.
It’s a dog who can train weight pulling, running, and swimming but also bite – attack and defense on command.
It’s spectacular how dogs quickly understand what the owner looks from it. I can say that all Spunk Gang dogs are well trained for attack and defense, and just in a few months you may get your perfect guardian who will react on command “attack”. If you have no experience with this, then please take some professionals who will make it from your dog. You should consult with somebody who has experience with this to expand your knowledge about this, but we will speak about this as well as some further lessons about basic training and how to make your puppy in training for the bite on the sleeve.
Agile ability is one of the most important characteristics of Cane Corso!
The whole body construction from the tail to the fingers is a machine from thousands of parts connected to work as one. Every single part even the smallest one is very important in how whole body can work perfectly.
The most important thing that body can works perfectly is:
HEALTH
Cane Corso is a light heavy dog, with big bones and a big body but still, it must be agile. The agility of the dog provides strong joints and a strong back, something to be strong needs to be healthy as well. Big joints in a dog’s body are knees, hips, elbows, shoulders, and withers. There are also a lot of smaller joints, but big joints suffer a higher load. We should care about it to be and stay healthy as well as with a whole body.
Position of bones inside the body.
Dog’s anatomy can tell us if does dog is agile or not. It presents with very easy movement, with excellent reach and drive, and means that dog can perform commands or training easily. If something misses, then the movement will not be like should be, and today, it’s a very big problem with the breed. With those dogs who have anatomy problems with bones and size of bones, open angulations and so, today it comes that dogs have short steps in movement, what’s not good for the breed and should be improved. About this very serious thing, I will write later in some other lesson. You may think that there is no perfect dog, and yes, I agree, there is no perfect dog. But we need work on to improve the breed by quality selection. I write about Cane Corso general appearance so you can imagine the dog closer.
To get back on the story, working ability, as well as showing dogs need to have good reach & drive. It is more important for working dogs. That dog with the same power can run and make done more work than a dog with short steps. It means that a dog with short steps needs to spend more power on the same thing or training. What if the dog needs to work more and has no power? If we need and we need agile dogs as should, then we need dogs with completely excellent body construction so they can works very well without problems.
Cane Corso general appearance about movement
Cane Corso gives the impression of a very agile dog who will do work until it is finished with enough power. But do not understand me wrong, Cane Corso is not a machine that can work 24/7 or very long work with high load. It is also animal from blood and meat and may come to the injury even serious injury.
Do you know what means name CANE CORSO is translated on English?
It means DOG GUARD!
If you google Cane Corso, you will find Spunk Gang on first place!
Quite, all can be
Thank you for ur work in all u have posted
Thanks for your Blogs and work you put in. I love every single Blog! Very easy to understand and very clear. Also i appriciate your comparency FCI vs AKC. I totaly love the breed and hopefully one day I can contribute a small part to the
preservation of the breed. For right now, i still do my research. An interesting Blog would also be Genetics and DRSA. I’m looking forward to read more of your Blogs . Regards