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« on: November 05, 2008, 07:29:50 am » |
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Noah, talk to Marvin Garrett on here is LA dogos, he is Lousiana, and has dogs from Denmark and some of the best blood around from what I understand has a very succesful rate at producing solid dogs that catch.
I admire a good dog, no matter the breed, so I am not downing the breed at all, I own one that I absolutely love, she is in my foundation breeding because I think so much of her, and the only reason she is not still catching hogs is because she suffered a bad injury to her back leg that causes her to limp bad, but She & I have caught many a good hog together for few good years, now we are both older.
I do hear alot about good dogos and bad dogos, as MR. HG said, just like the cur dogs, anybody can say what they want to on their website. Alot of the Dogo kennels that "test" or "prove" their dogs on hogs are a BIG JOKE! alot of it is done in a pen. If you keep reading the Dogo was originated to hunt in a Pack, and all dogs together could take down and control large game, they were not expected to do the job one-on-one like most "Bulldogs" so with that in their design, intellegence, & self preservation will create dog that will Bark, and re-grip when it does not feel comfortable, with the dogos hunting natural you will see plenty of pics with the dog already caught, but rarely do you see them intially doing the job from start to finish as see see if that is what you want.
Again like any breed, alot are watered down for the show ring and not bred for original traits.
LaDogos, has a big male, I believe his name is Ricado, and that dog looks like a MONSTER, I have seen him as the Dogo Speciatly a few years back in person (HUMUNGEOS) my first impression was that dog is too heavy to be all that athletic! But that goes to show that you can't judge a book by its cover, because Marvin uses that dog on alot of hogs and talks about broken bays and that dog has to do alot of running and catching from the storys Marvin post ( Have yet to hunt with him in person), but talk to him and he can probaly tell you more in detail.
It is just my opinion you have to judge the dog as an individual and not based on the whole breed.
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