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A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.
Posted by Stano on 5/25/2009, 11:27 am, in reply to "Re: What do you do with your dogs?"
No we don't train for the show ring. We did put Raven in a Cane Corso specialty in Calgary, under a well known CKC judge a few years back and she took winners b###h and best of opposite sex. I had my son take some handling lessons from the well respected Larry Clark, and then give it a shot. We just wanted to see how it went and what was involved and all that. It was fun, but being a working trainer, it goes, against my philosophy, as I believe over the years showing has taken out many of the working attributes out of great breeds. This is not to say I don't enjoy seeing several "beautiful" specimans of the breed prance around a ring. Also the dedication and time spent from the owners down to the handlers are an amazing task in it self and I have great respect for them! In fact we were fortunate enough to see the Cane Corso Association of America Nationals last year in Las Vegas, and boy let me tell ya, there were a whole lot of Corsi that just took my breath away!! In fact the winner of that National was from right here in Calgary, from breeders Darkstone Kennel. At 7 years old their male Roscoe, looked amazing and took the whole show. It was nice to see a Corso from our hometown, win the big show.
Most our dogs, definately have show champions in their lines, however we prefer to work our dogs!
If your interested in showing I would definately recommend you contact Betty at Darkstone. I'm sure they would love to help or at least give you some pointers.
As for Canine Good Neighbor, we don't have any of those titles, but have trained many to attain this. Shutzhund, weight pulling, and definately TDI titles are an awesome way to keep your Corso a great ambassador for the breed.
We also have trained many for obedience titles, but most of all trained for real application security.
In the end the more you do for your dog, the better it will be, and you will also find it very rewarding!!
Stan
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