I don´t know  what  they know some people that dare to opine in the forums about the  breed Perro de Presa Canario.  By their messages I deduce that they talk about  some kind of dogs  type  presa  that  grow up in  USA, that little or nothing they have to do with the Perro de Presa Canario. And not only in USA, in all the European countries they breed this type of dogs in which the APBT predominates and that nothing, or almost nothing has to do with the Perro de Presa Canario.  And why they call them Perro de Presa Canario?  -asked  me with  astonish and incredulous  face when hearing my words an Italian owner of one of those pseudopresas canarios -. Well –I replied-, because with the denomination Presa Canario, they sell in very  hight  price a dog type presa  that under another denomination would not manage to sell.  Oh! –exclaimed the  Italian boy -, I don´t feel now very happy knowing that they have deceived me, although I love a lot  my dog  Altimo.

Several times  I said and wrote, that the big problem that affects to our molosser (canary) is that it is that, a molosser, and in addition of not very old origin.  For that reason, not  few cunnings have crossed dogs type presa with the purpose of produce dogs that  in some way  resemble to the Perro de Presa  Canario, and under this  denomination they sell them in  high prices. The Perro de Presa Canario begins to be develope, like breed, towards the middle decades of the 70´s, not before, -most of those that become fond of this canary canine breed  in the middle decades of the 70´s had not been born still, is not truth? -.  All those that are put in this subject of the dogs, we know that the canine breeds, they  exist, by work and grace of the whims or necessities of the man, and therefore, have a beginning, and this one has to do, always, with the mestization (crossings), because, as  said me in one occasion an  outstanding Spanish Cynophiler (dog-man), the canine breeds all has been created by the man, and did not leave like such of  Noah´s Ark.

 Clear that there are crossings and crossings, just like there are knowledgeable or experts in dogs and amateurs, who likes a lot to be protagonist  in the forums, because, say me if is not  easy to post in  the forums... -whichever who has a computer and connection  to the network can do it, is not thus?- to digress about  something, in this case the Perro de Presa Canario, and to make affirmations on a subject that is not known.  With too much frequency, fanciers  of the APBT, the BANDOG, or the PERRO DE PRESA CANARIO,  speaks saying so untrue  things like that the Presa Canario is a bandog, and that the APBT is their genetic base. I want to demand  more respect for the BANDOG, and is a pity  that do not post with more frequency in its defense those that they make the Bandog, due it does not seem me acceptable that any improvised cynophiler  post  in the forums to say that such-and-such breed of dogs is nothing  more than a   bandog.  With this comparison  the only thing  that obtains  these improvised  cynophiler,  is  to soil the word bandog and the work of those people who breed this  canine variety, or  breed.

As many know, I was the one who from the beginning denounced, or informed, that the Presa Canario dog  was not an old but a new breed, product of crossings between several breeds imported  to the Canary Islands from different countries and the Perro de Ganado Majorero.  In those dates, was someone who wanted to deprive me of authority saying that whatever I claimed  was a lie, that the Perro de Presa Canario  was  a recovery product -carried out by means of breed and selection by the Spanish Club of the  Presa Canario Dog-, of  units that they existed here and there, of old ancestry, in the Canary Islands.  Clear that since then, has rained a lot, and of presas canarios has grow up many litters, and in consequence, the sufficient generations to being able to speak of  breed, and like so was  recognized by the Royal Spanish Canine Society, and recently by the Federation Cynologique International (FCI) – the really sad thing, is that it was not recognized with its true name (Perro de Presa Canario), but like  Dogo Canario- .

Also I said, and wrote in multitude of occasions, that the Perro Presa Canario  is still not done, like breed, that he lack of  racial uniformity, in the wide sense of the term, and that the things have not being well done, they are not being well doing, that the club of the breed, with the president at the top, does not think more than in make money (easy) with the Presa Canario, that  concerns in nothing  the future of the breed –I  release myself to the facts-, at the present moment (May 11-2002) the Spanish Club of the Perro de Presa Canario, FCI  Dogo Canario  is sunken, the board members are every one by his way, after disputes, questions of money, of  champions (CH), in short, it is truly sad that this club has been always directed by a gang of  insolvents.

But the Perro de Presa Canario will follow ahead, in spite of the officiality that represents it, of the bold ignorant that now and again shown in the forums to opine on the breed without having the most remote idea of which they are speaking.

 There is a proverb that says: of dogs, politics and religion everybody knows.  I say that nowadays, many know (also), much, about the Perro de Presa Canario.

Manuel Curtó Gracia
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