He came from the Cerberus Kennels in Italy, the land where these dogs originated centuries ago. Prince and Francesca exemplified the Cane Corso ideal, not surprisingly, because Prince was imported straight from the fountainhead. She was wonderful- smart, sensitive, loved kids, a very kind heart, just a very kindhearted dog.” Today Connors shares her home with 10 of them. In 1995, she got an 11-week-old puppy from one of Prince’s litters-a brindle bitch whom she named Francesca-and has had Corsi ever since. One look was all it took for Connors, who had previously owned Rottweilers.
The dog was DiGuardia’s Prince del Cerberus, one of the foundation studs in the U.S. … Not the kind who’s going to jump in your lap. “He was very confident, approachable, and stable. “I found him to be a very noble-looking animal,” breeder Diane Connors says, describing Prince, the first Corso she saw back in the early 1990s at a rare-breed show. Some of today’s fanciers will readily admit that they had not given much thought to these dogs-until they had the chance to meet one face-to-face. This attitude is what draws many people to the Cane Corso, and it’s impossible to understand unless you’ve seen the breed up close. In fact, one way to translate the name is bodyguard dog, derived from the Latin words canis (dog) and cohors (military guard).
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Rocky was watching from afar, and he saw you raise your hands, and he came back to protect me … by pushing you away.’ ”Īn understated air of cool competence, the kind of demeanor you’d expect from a professional bodyguard, is the breed’s trademark. Gigante almost didn’t have the heart to tell him the truth. And the guy was like, My God, look at this dog. “Rocky sees this out of the corner of his eye, and ran to me, then ran to the guy, and just started leaning on him a bit, and pushing him a little bit away, a little bit away. “This guy was a big man, and he was talking with his hands, raising them over his head, describing how he likes the big dogs,” Gigante says. And it looked as if he was snoozing as the man took a few steps toward five-foot two-inch Gigante.Īll was fine, until the stranger began musing on his canine ideal. Rocky didn’t seem to notice when the visitor stood up. “The guy was in heaven,” Gigante recalls.Īfter a while, the 130-pound dog ambled over to another part of the room and settled down, apparently unaware of everything else in the world. Rocky, one of her favorites, took a shine to the visitor, and leaned against him, happy to be petted.
These dogs are subtle in their warnings, as breeder Janet Gigante observed when a man interested in buying a puppy came to her home in upstate New York. It’s been infused over centuries, stretching back to the days when giant war dogs marched into battle alongside Roman legions.īut don’t expect a great roaring display of fangs at the slightest threat. The instinct to protect runs strong in the blood of the Cane Corso.
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