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    Cane Corso The Best
    Cane Corso The Best
    Cane Corso The Best
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    Cane Corso The Best

    By Alessandro Ferri

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    This book is an apology of a breed, not a technical manual for aspiring friends of the Cane Corso, but a rational celebration of a superb breed. It would be the same if we wished to talk about the wonders of tennis and therefore wrote a monograph on Roger Federer, or on Mozart, if we wanted to explain how the word genius can be paired with music. Those who love a breed are inclined to glorify it. If you write a book that is also an exaltation of a breed, you will need to at least try to give all the reasons. These pages represent an effort to combine the subjectivity of a passion with the objectivity of the technical data regarding the breed, without using the language of the World Canine Organization Standard (however fundamental), but rather words that stem from the direct observation of the historical evolution and of the progressive fixation of specific peculiar characteristics.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibò Edizioni
    Release dateJun 13, 2017
    ISBN9788894262018
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      Cane Corso The Best - Alessandro Ferri

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      The Best and the Beast

      Ladies and gentlemen: the perfect dog

      This is THE best dog in the world. This is the King of all breeds. Not the German Shepherd, not the Labrador. It has all the qualities of these breeds, plus a soul of the past and a temperament inherited from his combat-dog ancestors. And not just any combatant, but a disciplined and uncompromising soldier. The eyes of his ancestors scanned the horizon of Britannia as it became rippled with lethal enemy troops. The Roman legions deployed Cane Corsos donning spiked metal collars and unleashed them to attack the enormous war horses of the barbarian armies. A warrior dog, but a noble warrior. We are talking about a soldier aware of his role. Nowadays too, dog units are employed in armies all over the world. The Cane Corso is the proudest and most austere progenitor of all soldier dogs that ever existed. Now that we know – now that we can picture the red dawns the dogs of the Roman legions saw – we can better comprehend why the eyes of a Corso seem so different from those of any other dog. It is because we know they are revealing a history of courage. Look at him while he sits on his hindquarters, back straight and chest forward, with that head that looks like a helmet. He is scanning the horizon, almost as if he expects to hear the beating of faraway drums.

      The warrior is watching you. A Cane Corso from the Italian breeding center Gran Burrone

      War and sand

      An Italian history

      Like the Neapolitan Mastiff, the Cane Corso is a descendant of the Canis pugnax , the Molosser who the ancient Romans spread throughout most of Europe, as far as the borders of their Empire. In antiquity, they were the Canis pugnaces, carved into marble and depicted in frescoes. They were the Cave canem of the mosaics of Pompei, as well as the guardian of noble family villas.

      People were far more fearful of those dogs than we are today of our watch dogs and defense dogs. This was due to the Molosser's well-known aggressiveness and the lack of weapons (guns or shotguns) back then which could hit the dog from a safe distance. No thief in those times would have wished to find themselves engaged in a hand to hand with a Molossus guard dog, not even if they had a dagger.

      A dog from the Italian breeding center Molossi dell'Angra

      The color of the dog's eyes was also important. Yellow was preferred, although the most terrifying were silver-colored. The eyes of a ghost, which instilled fear.

      The Imperial Roman Army valued Molossus dogs highly. The Procurator cinegeti selected them according to their performance in the arena and in battle. The Molosser was used as a combatant in war, for fighting against beasts and gladiators in the arenas, for watching over public buildings and the houses of noble families and for big-game hunting.

      The Roman Molossian was a functionally complete dog, and in the lands conquered by the Roman legions it engendered similar dogs, which were trained for similar purposes. In Spain, the catching Perro spread and in France the Dogue de Bordeaux.

      The war Molosser, with its collar covered with iron spikes and blades on its back, was trained to attack the enemy, knock them down and dig their fangs into their throat. A similar war dog derived from the wolf, since the Romans used domesticated wolves. The Romans found in the blood line of that wild animal all the qualities sought in their four-legged soldier: the drive to conquer territory, determination in combat and fearlessness.

      These dogs, descendants of wolves, progressively interbred with morphologically different dogs; bigger, of stronger temperament, with shorter coats and characteristics that could today be defined as typically molossoid. The presence of these dogs within the Empire and at the breeding centers could be traced to the arrival of merchants and territorial conquests. The courage, strength and temperament of these Bellator or Pugnator dogs that fought alongside soldiers increasingly amazed those who selected and used them based on how trustworthy and effective they proved to be.

      Another Corso from Molossi dell'Angra

      The progenitors of the Cane Corso had peculiar morphological and behavioral characteristics and were called Molossers, from the Molossus of Epirus, another combatant of those times, used for

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