Cane Corso The Best E-Book

Alessandro Ferri

• Herausgeber: Libò Edizioni
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

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.

Leseprobe

Alessandro Ferri

Copyright © 2017 by Libò Edizioni - Florence - Italy

Photo: Marco Leonardi

Translation: Isabella Nicotera

In the cover photo: Ludovico from Impero Maya

ISBN: 978-88-942620-1-8

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Table of Contents

The Best and the Beast

War and sand

The dark side of the Molosser

Genesis of a breed

Purebred Quality

The great beauty

Warrior head or helmet?

From Italy with fury

The Cane Corso in the family

Americans do it better

Official Standard

The Author

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