Goals in Canines

12/10/2025

Snow worries ⛄️

12/01/2025

You will never guess what he’s barking at

11/24/2025

Been a while 🐶 🐶

11/05/2025

Zorah loves this season 🍁

10/31/2025

They eat better than me sometimes 🍖

10/29/2025

Kima has just been bred for the last time. Hoping for another well-rounded litter before this girl retires. Either way she’s more than pulled her weight around here 💪🏽

10/20/2025

Furio and Totoro have made it official. Let’s hope Santa brings some four-legged Christmas presents.

10/13/2025

Every time we talk about Cane Corso, they evoke memories, images and legends that often blend with reality. But if you really want to understand what it is and where it comes from, it is necessary to strip the speech from the rhetoric and look with clarity at historical sources, zootechnical data and dog choices of the last decades.

The first node to be clarified is terminological. Talking about “Historical Corso dog” is conceptually inappropriate, because until the middle of the nineteenth century there was no breed coded with this name. In the southern dialects the term corz or cors’ refers to a “shortened” dog (for caudotomy and conchectomy) or, more generally, a rustic dog to catch, part of that functional mosaic of subjects scattered in the Mezzogiorno masses. It wasn’t a genetically closed population nor a pure breed, but a rural zootechnical heritage, where there lived dogs from the crossroads of grazing molossoids, and herd dogs like the Abruzzese Shepherd. Talking about “historic” implies a linearity that has never been. The Cane Corso breed, as we know it today, was born only with the reconstruction of the Seventies-Eighties and with official recognition in FCI in 1996, preceded by a standard already in Italy in the 1980s.

On the subject of prey, the Hellenistic anecdote of the king of Sofeites and the dogs thrown at the lion is often evoked as a symbol, but it has no connections with Corso or Italy. It does not constitute a functional test. Persistent grip behavior is not explained with exotic tales, but with very precise ethological factors: bite reactivity threshold, stress resistance, pain threshold, reduced release inhibition. All elements that consolidate for generational selection and training. The metaphor that compares the dog’s grip to the puppy’s suction reflex may be suggestive, but it doesn’t have neurophysiological basis: these are different circuits, one food and transient, the other competitive and selected.

From the morphological point of view, the correct physiological occlusion remains orthognatism with scissor dentures, which ensures maximum efficiency in pressing and chewing. However, already in the eighties, several authors poi

10/01/2025

Pamela and Whitney Discuss Their New show The Corso Academy and The Canine Acdemy

09/30/2025

Going forward, any homes looking to be considered for a GIC puppy must fill out an application on our website or AKC page. Any other questions are welcome across platforms as always.

09/28/2025

Sage advice here. A lot of it applies to life in general.

WELCOME to OUR debut Episode of the CANINE Academy with Pam and Whitney. Where Professional Dog Trainer and Average Dog owner/ Trainer Enthusiast discuss do...