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Julieta and Joaquín playing
with their friend Antón
The Argentine Dogo, a
versatile dog (1)
Although the Argentine Dogo was created
as primordial end for the biggest hunt, it is not necessary to
forget that the races that were used to get it also contributed
him some qualities that are not very well known.
In the first place, it is necessary to
discard the idea of the Argentine Dogo as a fierce and terrible
being. The only one that is fierce and terrible is the
irresponsible owner that has made this way to their dog.
The Dogo is a dog of extraordinarily
balanced, very intelligent, although also quite stubborn
character. It is for that reason that, if it will be trained, it
must be it for expert hands and not for fans.
When cohabiting at home he is a perfect
partner for the whole family and he will behave as a lap dog with
the members of the same one; it will look for the caresses
unfailingly and it will tolerate the mischiefs of the youngest
members in the house stoically, he will never grunt to anybody of
the family, what doesn't remove that when defending those that it
considers his and to the properties of these becomes an
implacable guard dog and defence.
It is in fact in these two points, the
guard and the defence, on those that I would like to impact,
because they are the most unknown, although, I eat I have already
said in a principle, the Argentine Dogo you was created primarily
for the biggest hunt, in it is she certainly unbeatable for their
force and value.
If to these three characteristics
(forces and value) we added him the balanced character and the
intelligence, we will have a race that, apart from their natural
instinct for the hunt, he also has a natural instinct for the
guard and the defence.
In fact, the Federal Police Argentina
and the one Exercises Argentinean they come him using for years
like guard dog and defence. Also hoist to highlight that the most
balanced and intelligent races are only used like guide of blind;
because well, May 12 1968 were born it Damages, an Argentine Dogo
that served until their death like invidentes guide.
The other faces of the
Argentine Dogo (2)
When I hear speak of the utility of the
Argentine Dogo, as always that it is a dog specialised in a
concrete work, it seems as if they rejected their other
possibilities, as if outside of what is the hunt and their
environment didn't have place where to locate it.
To fulfil effectiveness their made
hunter, the Argentine Dogo it possesses a series of physical and
psychic characteristics, powered selectively by means of
gymnastics functional generation after generation that they have
given place to a concrete fenotipo. But this fenotipo is not so
exaggeratedly limited by its specialisation like some can end up
thinking. The Argentine Dogo can show us diverse expensive.
As family dog. Having raised during
years diverse races of utility, I cannot stop certain comparisons
that facilitate my exhibition to settle down. And when I speak of
raising the I make from the sofa breeder's prism", that is
to say, the dogs inhabit my house colloquially and they are
educated in severe norms of coexistence, but they are also
consented in that intimate relationship of hug and caress that it
authenticates and he/she relaxes. Because well, the Argentine
Dogo remind me a lot to the Boxer for their sweetness, their
sensibility and their desire of pleasing. They are comparatively
less "revoleras", more controlled and been restrained
in their actions inside the home, less explosive in their
emotional manifestations. They are also less infantile, as if
their neotenización was less marked, although its threshold of
patience with the children is also very high. That is to say, the
Argentine Dogo is absolutely advisable, with the security of
guessing right.
As guard dog. If on how the first
question of who is interested in a versed physically powerful
canine race behaves at home, the second refer at your disposal as
guardian. Understanding the guard like born attitude in some dogs
and I don't eat an instinct, we can affirm that the
well-channelled Argentine Dogo can end up being an effective
guardian. All the copies that I have tried showed from very young
an attitude of clear, but not exaggerated distrust, before the
approach of a possible intruder. But when lacking him that point
of hysterical reaction characteristic of other races, it is
relatively easy to inhibit it if we repress it or we frustrate
it. On the contrary, if we motivate it methodically, that
attitude will be translated in an appropriately fixed behaviour,
that that, together to its value and tenacity, he/she will give
an utility like absolutely reliable guardian as a result.
It is necessary to highlight that very
few races possess the balance that presents the Argentine Dogo
between their guard attitude and their behaviour like family dog,
two aspects that, as many sadly know, they usually go one in
detriment of the other one.
As defence dog. In the case of the
Argentine Dogo, he/she acquires their maximum sense the sentence
the courteous thing it doesn't remove the valiant thing."
Who identifies defence dog with dog hiperagresivo or dog of good
character with useless dog he/she makes a mistake totally. Those
that know about this will suit with me that a good defence dog is
based in a solid hunt instinct, able to be ritualizado and a good
psychic balance with appropriate answer to the received stimuli,
everything wrapped up it by a physique powerful and good dose of
anger and tenacity. Such it seems as if we were describing the
aptitudes of a Argentine Dogo ideal.
As dog of use leasure. In this field the
Argentine Dogo finds a varied landscape where to shine with own
light. It is here where it shows their more attractive face for
the great public, that that consents to the dog more for an
impulse of aesthetic included whim that guided by the necessity
or the practical sense. Of course that the hunt is an leasure
activity , I eat also it is it the sport competition with dogs of
utility. But they are not less important all those possibilities
that each proprietor can enjoy with his dog like pretext, like
indispensable part or as simple companion.
All those that we have travelled
kilometres like training or for pure pleasure we know about the
great motivational paper that represents a dog. The powerful
beauty of an Argentine Dogo in movement is the ideal catalyst to
make generous our effort and to reach the communion with the
environment.
To educate or to train an Argentine Dogo
is not a whim or a luxury; neither he/she must necessarily mean
to enter in competition with anybody. To train a dog is the best
way to know it and to enjoy it fully. The process for which the
learning is achieved and domain of the different exercises
establishes a very special relationship between teacher and
student and it develops decisive aspects of the behaviour like
the dependence and the hierarchical submission.
A walk to horse, already of for yes
extraordinary, it becomes something of difficult description when
it enriches it the company of our dog. There is not anything as
the vital conjunction and aesthetics of these two magnificent
animals that remove our most ancestral memories like species.
Those that we have the fortune of having enjoyed them will always
keep those vivencias like part of our happier intimacy.
The bicycle allows us also pleasant
rhythm sensations and harmony with our animal, in such a way that
we will hardly conceive the one without the complement of the
other one. Maintaining our dog under good conditions will not
only be simple, but even beneficial for our own physical state.
As you see, the Argentine Dogo is a dog
with many faces, to which more attractive or more spectacular and
some of them for desvelar. With my most sincere respect for all
those that still continue interpreting the Argentine Dogo as a
dog restricted to their original function leather jacket have
wanted to contribute a grain of sand for, once again, to demolish
walls and to enlarge horizons. I encourage, of all heart, to
those who are interested in this imposing race so that you
interioricen and share the adventure of the life of an Argentine
Dogo in the security that they will see full all their
expectations, be which were these.
To possess an Argentine Dogo is really
to crown the summit.
To enunciate the characteristics of
this breed, we transcribe two notes written for the Magazine "The
World of the Dog" in July 1996, for the
Mr. Pedro A. Tobajas Cuesta (1) and the Mr. Julio Beberide (2).
