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The
Breeding
Posterior to the Recognition
The official
recognition of the breed generated a new tendency in the
breeding of the Presa Canario. Until that time the
numerous breeders reproduced continuing with just their
personal valuing of the temperament of the animal, good structure, good head, good
front and good bone. The
approach to a standard was not contemplated. The
difference of the type on the two islands, Tenerife and Gran
Canaria, where the most important nuclei of the population was
concentrated, is evident.
For the first time what was looked for was the phenotype of
the animal, regarding the many ribs, the breed expression, using animals of medium type of good
proportions, looking for the colors bardino or striped
preferably and a cadence of movement. The character
should be balanced. The island of Gran Canaria had true
devotion to the mouths with bites in tong or in scissor.
The phenotype mattered less to them and they principally
looked for
the strong character of the animal. The most
important defects were coats where there was an excess of
white, oval eyes with conjunctivas exposed and
flat ribs. Excesses in the sizes also took place. It
should not be forgotten that the functionality in the face
of combat was the main mission of the breeders. In the standard of the breed are the parameters for the true
breeder to follow. The theories of which is "authentic" or "pure" are
dismantled. There is not but one road, and it is the
selection and the intrinsic approach to the racial model.
It was a hard time and many breeders, perhaps due to excessive
egocentricity, abandon actively breeding, it was the time
of selecting to the maximum, not an easy course. The
Monographic Exhibitions are one of the barometers which reflects what has
been the evolution of the breed.
In fact the Presa Canario has become a true regional dog
lover event, where the numbers of participants, assistants and
[canine] examples alike, are faithful reflections of
the projection of the breed. From the celebration of the
first edition, on December 6, 1990, in at Ferial del Cabildo de Santa Cruz de Tenerife, where they
registered 203 specimens, which only 23 consented to the
competition, to the seventh and last edition celebrated
October 12 and 13 of the past year in the Parque
Cultural Viera y Clavijo, where 103 examples appeared
for
the competition and 63 examples for the initial
registrations of the breed, of which only obtained
the same average dozen of examples, they separate just
six temporary years, but an abyss for the selection and
improvement of the breed. Partially, in each one of the
editions the number of examples for the
competition increases and decreasing are those that seek the
registration of breed. The rings of
pups and youth class are numerous, and those of adult classes in
males and females are more and more homogeneous. In the
present idea of the Club, since the population is sufficient,
reducing of the registrations of breed, is
had that in the numbering cases that are practiced will be
solved with the rigor that now demanding to stimulate
breeders to inscribe litters and studs in the LOE. (Book of Spanish
Origins)
Translated
Miguel Angel Gonzalez
Judge and Breeder
[1998]
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