Il Cane Corso

The rustic Cane corso

translation by Federico

“Rustic”, in our meaning, identifies the prevalence within Cane Corso of those characters that are most relevant for the excellence of the “functional beauty” even if to the detriment of the “conventional” characters so much awarded in the shows. (See F.A.Q.: “What do we mean for “beauty” in a dog”)

Briefly, and surely not exhaustively, we will here enumerate some of those characters which cannot but descended from a particular structure, moulded during the ages, by the functional employment:

· ● Great physical resistance in job (even in critical environment contexts);

· ● Great adaptability in hostile habitats (for example, the presence of the undercoat and a thick and resistant skin allow it to live in any different kind of weather condition and allow it to be resistant to whatever may cause wounds);

· ● High food assimilation (rustic Corso, even if it’s greedy, adapts easily itself to frugality and it’s able to make the best of the available food);

· ● Disease tolerance (it has an amazing physical condition and react in a very natural way to different kind of “not-so-serious” diseases”);

· ● Balanced character which expresses, especially in conflict situations, trough an event adequate reaction;

· ● Prevalent adaptive and instinctive intelligence (applied in a rural context) compared to the “intelligence to obey” .

[Where, in the opinion of the American psychologist Stanley Coren: the “adaptive intelligence” regards the dog’s ability to pass over new circumstances and problems working out a behavior that is suitable for the new situation, the “instinctive intelligence” includes the skills and behaviors that are within the genetic heritage of the dog (for ex. “fetching” in Labrador Retriever and the flock’s protection in the Mastino Abruzzese) and the “intelligence to obey” is inherent to the ability of learning and apply commands.]

· ● Physiognomic heterogeneity linked to a good genetic variability internal to the race, derived from original stocks sometimes specialized from the functional employment point of view, but highly representative of the traditional morphology of Cane Corso;

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