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The Breeding Posterior to the
Recognition
Taken from the Dogo Canario Club of
America Web Site.
The official recognition of the breed generated a new tendency in the
breeding of the Presa Canario. Until that time the numerous breeders
reproduced continuing with just their personal valuing of the temperament of
the animal, good structure, good head, good front and good bone. The
approach to a standard was not contemplated. The difference of the type on
the two islands, Tenerife and Gran Canaria, where the most important nuclei
of the population was concentrated, is evident.
For the first time what was looked for was the phenotype of the animal,
regarding the many ribs, the breed expression, using animals of medium type
of good proportions, looking for the colors bardino or striped preferably
and a cadence of movement. The character should be balanced. The island of
Gran Canaria had true devotion to the mouths with bites in tong or in
scissor. The phenotype mattered less to them and they principally looked for
the strong character of the animal. The most important defects were coats
where there was an excess of white, oval eyes with conjunctivas exposed and
flat ribs. Excesses in the sizes also took place. It should not be forgotten
that the functionality in the face of combat was the main mission of the
breeders. In the standard of the breed are the parameters for the true
breeder to follow. The theories of which is "authentic" or "pure" are
dismantled. There is not but one road, and it is the selection and the
intrinsic approach to the racial model.
It was a hard time and many breeders, perhaps due to excessive
egocentricity, abandon actively breeding, it was the time of selecting to
the maximum, not an easy course. The Monographic Exhibitions are one of the
barometers which reflects what has been the evolution of the breed.
In fact the Presa Canario has become a true regional dog lover event, where
the numbers of participants, assistants and [canine] examples alike, are
faithful reflections of the projection of the breed. From the celebration of
the first edition, on December 6, 1990, in at Ferial del Cabildo de Santa
Cruz de Tenerife, where they registered 203 specimens, which only 23
consented to the competition, to the seventh and last edition celebrated
October 12 and 13 of the past year in the Parque Cultural Viera y Clavijo,
where 103 examples appeared for the competition and 63 examples for the
initial registrations of the breed, of which only obtained the same average
dozen of examples, they separate just six temporary years, but an abyss for
the selection and improvement of the breed. Partially, in each one of the
editions the number of examples for the competition increases and decreasing
are those that seek the registration of breed. The rings of pups and youth
class are numerous, and those of adult classes in males and females are more
and more homogeneous. In the present idea of the Club, since the population
is sufficient, reducing of the registrations of breed, is had that in the
numbering cases that are practiced will be solved with the rigor that now
demanding to stimulate breeders to inscribe litters and studs in the LOE.
(Book of Spanish Origins)
Translated
Miguel Angel Gonzalez
Judge and Breeder
[1998]
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