Cane Corso
 

Uma and I just put a down payment on first pick of a new Cane Corso. Will be a blue (actually gray), blue eye, male. We saw mom and dad dogs last weekend. Dad was about 155lbs and stands about 6' tall. Can we say BIG dog?!

I even got to use a attack sleeve with him... talk about POWER!! OMG.

Pups to arrive June 2nd. Go home with us at 6 weeks and will already be 25lbs.

Here's dad
http://www.motorcitycanecorso.com/ga...l_DSC05616.jpg
http://www.motorcitycanecorso.com/ga...l_DSC05628.jpg


But we aren't going to crop the ears and going for the blue over the black.

Here's a few shots of the last litter
http://www.motorcitycanecorso.com/ga...l_MaxCHair.jpg
http://www.motorcitycanecorso.com/ga...BIG%20GIRL.jpg
http://www.motorcitycanecorso.com/ga...20Attitude.jpg

Wifey and I are now getting very excited now that we have a deposit down and contract in. I am told a male at 150# will eat a 50# bag of food about every 2.5 weeks. And of coarse the shit will be insane... I'm thinking I might be able to shit in the back yard and it will blend in! YIKES!!! With these dogs in particular, they actually live 10-12 years.. about the same as your lab or retriever. Very light shedding, no drooling, and very much pack dogs. But as long as we socialize the dog as a puppy he should be fine with strangers as long as he don't pick up on negative vibes by us the owners. The dad dog was crazy on the attack sleeve I was wearing... bruised my arm (and I don't bruise, last time was a high side mc accident).

They are a Italian Mastiff breed. A new breed to AKC. Till just recently (the last few months) they were only papered thru a special Cane Corso association. I will get papers for that. It has great bloodlines by Denis Reed.

Should make a heck of a sight with 130# Uma jogging with this dog once he's all grown up...

Will keep this updated as soon as the pups get here...


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OH WOW.... what a spectacular looking dog. Just beautiful..... I'm so glad you're going to leave the ears natural.

Congrats on your (soon to be) new family member!

Beautiful dogs. Congrats

Awesome looking dog.. A little bit big for my tastes, but still a very nice dog. I'm thinking about getting either an English Bull Dog or a Boxer. It's been almost a year since we lost out Yellow Lab....

Gawd, I keep looking at the pic of the gray one with the blue eyes (the puppy).... what a FACE......

Yeah we wanted something big and something different. Something that people just have to ask "what is that?". And as Nee said, the pups are so incrediablely cute.

And the pick of dad does NOT do his size justice. He is the biggest dog I've ever saw. Not just tall like a great dane, but very atheletic and solid.

Originally we were looking at dobermans but found these and Uma did TONS TONS TONS of research on like every dog against these. But once we met a couple they are just awesome. Live longer than others their size and very trainable. All of the ones we met would listen to one word commands. This one guy had one in his SUV and with one word it would bark like he was going to kill you, then one more word... calm.

And yeah Nee, the ears don't look as good cropped. Not like a doberman where they look better cropped. This one with its big cheeks looks better with the ears down. The tail will come docked as well as the dew claw removed.

Cute pups...monster dogs.

I've raised Pit Bulls and Rottweillers but never been around this breed and have only recently read a little about them. Very interseting. :dthumb:

Heck of a breed and a big responsibility for sure. Post up plenty of pics. :rockout:

cant wait to move out of this apt so i can get a rottweiler.

not gonna clip the tail.

had one in college and this dog was the funnest thing in the world. she was the biggest sweetheart, wouldnt ever hurt a fly. 150# lap dog.

What kind of price do those things run? Must be pretty high to need a downpayment.

z06... its a newer bread as I said it is just in the past few months that AKC even recognized it. Which in reality is probably better because it really has a lack of problems and a great tempermant.

Some more in depth info on them
http://www.canecorso.org/

And this site below is always great for info on any breed.
http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/canecorsoitaliano.htm