History of Cane Corso
unusually intertwined with history of Italian peoples in
everything-their splendor and poverty. One would think the breed
pulled through total and fatal disappearance has arrived at our
times with so poor but still essential historic and ethnographic
equipment unfortunately.
Vanishing of wild game and use of firing arm with different
hunting methods reduced the common employment of the breed. The
intentions directed to the breed salvation were in the foundation
program of S.A.C.C. which suffered the jolt in 1986 when dr.
Breber refused from society. Then this fact was not of great
interest, because the group was not popular.
This was the determinant of the breed management as it was a
person -one among the first to make contribution in new interest
in the breed and provided the dogs for the first litters. A son of
Dauno and Tipsi became a base model of the breed standard. These
two dogs were elaborately selected by dr. Breber.
When dr. Breber got way S.A.C.C. turned its mind to a Kennel
in Mantova run by Giancarlo Malavasi including all the breeding
program and S.A.C.C management in the hands of Stefano
Gandolfi, Gianantonio Sereni и Ferdinando Casolino.
The necessity of forwarding the breeding program further at all
hazards would become an excuse for centralized association control
which was not too democratic and often was a subject for negative
chatter. Owing to these reasons two vice-presidents from different
times stood out. They were Mr. Oreste Savoia и Dr. Flavio Bruno.
It was paramount that the activities of S.A.C.C.
as for recognition of the breed Cane Corso were energetic and effective
during that period. Unfortunately it is impossible to say the same
from dog fanciers’ points of view, because the quality level of
the litters preserved by Basir in 1980 has never been reduplicated
and species produced even today still seem to be so different from
the desirable model and represent considerable mutability.
During that period S.A.C.C. successfully
organized meetings of dog fanciers in order to achieve the breed
popularity and allowed ENCI judges to make tests and measurements.
This activity issued an official standard document redacted by
Doctor Antonio Morsiani and ratified by ENCI expertise committee
in 1987.
The same edition of the standard was likely to have lead to grave
discussions due to the necessity of differentiating between Cane Corso and the
other dogs such as Italian molosses, Neapoliatan Mastiffs, with
the view to the admission of some drawbacks.
In 1992, in order to string along with the breed development, ENCI
decided to keep an informal the book of record on the Cane Corso’ litters ( referred
to as Libro Apperto or an open book) approved by experts and also
study main bloodlines. The data contained in this book were given
to official books when the breed was officially recognized (in
1994, January, 20).
Enthusiasm, curiosity and knowledge that majority of dogs and big
interest in the breed could give an impetus to its recognition and
unrestrained interest in getting litters with consequent reduction
of middling quality results..
