dogo training

Kevin and Marvin,
Sorry for the delayed response, I can only check the internet a few times a week.
Short answer: plenty.
Why the question? Are the dogos or the lines you work with different than what I described?
What are you saying? That dogos take longer to turn on? That they won't grab a shoat by 4 or 5 months?!? That they won't go after and catch a hog around a 100lbs at 6-8 months? Again, with all due respect, that's bull, and if your experience is different, that they due in fact take longer to turn on and catch, those dogos are from the wrong blood.
If you believe the answer to the above is “no, dogos will and should do that” and were just asking out of curiosity how many I’ve seen in person, which I doubt you were, I have seen several pups with my OWN EYES (at least 8 off the top of my head) turned on and catching by 6-8 months. I have good friends here and in Argentina that have dogos catching by the same time. I’ve also seen tons of photos and videos from the same people.
Some people can search high and low, but if they look in the wrong places, they can be with the breed for 20 years and have well engrained opinions formed around an erroneous understanding of what a dogo is.
To me, it is no coincidence that a dogo that has countless generations of hunters in its background will catch double its size by 6/7 months. Its ancestors were shaped by the field, not in a show ring and then trying to work them over into the field, that's working backwards.
Dogos more on the mastiff end of the scale will take longer to develop physically and mentally.
Those dogos have too much of whatever else in them and not enough "Viejo Perro de Combate Cordobes" (basically the Argentine Pit Bull) in them.
Besides my personal experience, and that of countless Dogueros, read through the Book "The Dogo Argentino" by Agustin Nores Martinez and look at all the photos of puppies on hogs. Those are the dogos to breed--dogos that show heart and desire at a young age.
If you breed or get dogos from people that have "late bloomers" you'll probably get "late bloomers."
Here's an idea: I'll go to Dogo Argento (The largest dogo forum in the world), I'll go to the hunting section in Spanish, and I'll start a post for people to post pics, videos, and testimonies about dogos that are "crazy to catch good sized shoats by 4 or 5 months" and "able to catch something twice its size by 6 or 7 months." Then I’ll cross post the link here in a while, we’ll see if what I’m saying is that far fetched amongst hunters in Argentina.