Great Champion
Tilcara de Nores Martínez
He was born in Córdoba, located in the
mediterranean central region of the territory of Argentina. Their
creator was Doctor Antonio Nores Martínez, member of an upper
class and traditional family of that country; of profession
doctor and for legacy family lover of the dogs, it fixed in the
year 1928 the bases from a race to which would denominate
Argentine Dogo. It left their work of the methodical crossing of
several pure races and of one that was the better known one among
the bloody and fanatic fighters of dogs in those moments, common
activity for those then that called Fighting Dog of Córdoba, a
crossbreed with blood of Bull Terrier, Bulldog or Mastiff, of a
tremendous power and strength, but unstable psychic and
genetically.
After an intense study of characters and
through several generations it achieves their objective.
In their origins it was a combat dog for
many, but the fervour for the hunt he makes that he is given
participation in some of their so common hunt departures,
demonstrating him in the same ones their qualities to such an
end; the functional gymnastics and the metamorphosis taken place
by the environment transform it into an excellent Dog of Hunt. It
is that same metamorphosis what takes it today, through the time,
to a versatile dog in their functions, since he has demonstrated
to be an exemplary nobleman of company and faithful and
impassable protector of what loves.
Their strength and tenacity, their smell
and bravery, they make it inigualable inside the pack dogs for
the hunt of the boar, peccary, puma and other species predators
that inhabit the vast and heterogeneous Argentinean regions that
go from muddy swamps to encarpadas serranías, going by extensive
pampas, covered with closed and thorny vegetation.
Their harmony and balance, the excellent
musculature, characteristic of an athlete, makes it ideal to
support long voyages in diverse climates and after them to
sustain arduous combat with the pursued prey.
It was May 21 1964 when it is recognised
by the Federación Cinológica Argentina and for the Rural
Society Argentine, and the July, 31 of 1973 admit it the
Federación Cinológica International as unique race of
Argentinean origin, thanks to the inigualable work and effort of
a group of taken lovers of the same one of the hand for the
vehemence and their creator's brother's passion, doctor Agustín
Nores Martínez.
The remarkable growth of this race has
taken him today to be very considered practically in the entire
world, what makes proud those that here, its origin country, we
continue raising him with the same passion that in its
beginnings, since the passion is integral part of this race and
very difficult to be able to separate it of her, because, like he
said in its moment its creator, doctor Antonio Nores Martínez:
"The ideas that are born without passion, are born
dead."
Article published in the Magazine "The
World of the Dog" in July 1996.
