Have you ever owned a presa canario?

Inferiority complex?

Test test test 3 wrote:

Inferiority complex?

butt fvcker?

Just your moms and she liked it!

Is that a coffee maker?

Yes. My nephew owns 2 of them. He kept them in the house, until one day he came home, and I sh*t you not, one of them had knocked over the fridge and had eaten virtually everything, including the plastic containers and at least one beer can. The vet operated on him, and it was like Jaws, when the license plate, etc., fell out of the shark's stomach. Needless to say, he built a kennel in the backyard after that day.

I volunteer at an animal shelter and walk dogs there. I have no experience with that breed but, deal with Pitbulls, Rottweilers and other large breeds. I consider myself pretty strong, but there are days when I get one of those breeds that drag me around like I am holding onto a rototiller. Are you prepared to step between that breed if it goes after a neighbors poodle? Google the incident in San Franciso where the woman coach was killed by one a few years back...The detail are horrific.

o.k i'll say it..

pit bulls, rotts, ridgebacks, dogos, canarios, etc these type of dogs were NEVER BREEDED TO BE PETS!!!!!!!!!!!!

THESE ARE HUNTING, GUARD, FIGHTING DOGS THAT ONLY TRAINED CERTIFIED PROFESSIONALS SHOULD HANDLE..

IF THERE WAS A LAW BANNING THESE TYPE OF DOGS WITH A FEW EXCEPTIONS I WOULD SIGN IT IN A HEARTBEAT.. WAY TOO MANY CARELESS OWNERS WHO DO NOT KNOW ONE THING ABOUT THESE BREEDS..

jimbol wrote:

o.k i'll say it..

pit bulls, rotts, ridgebacks, dogos, canarios, etc these type of dogs were NEVER BREEDED TO BE PETS!!!!!!!!!!!!

THESE ARE HUNTING, GUARD, FIGHTING DOGS THAT ONLY TRAINED CERTIFIED PROFESSIONALS SHOULD HANDLE..

IF THERE WAS A LAW BANNING THESE TYPE OF DOGS WITH A FEW EXCEPTIONS I WOULD SIGN IT IN A HEARTBEAT.. WAY TOO MANY CARELESS OWNERS WHO DO NOT KNOW ONE THING ABOUT THESE BREEDS..

Uh, Pits have been one the historic "pet dogs" in the US for hundreds of years. And they're soooo cute!

I never owned one, but before you buy it, get a copy of a book The Red Zone by Aphrodite Jones, from around 2003. It's about presa canarios.

My neighbor had a presa canario. Then the kid's voice changed and he became a tenor.

6/10 for originality of the subject, but I'll bite...

A previous poster mentioned the woman who was taken apart by 2 presa canarios - she was the women's lacrosse(?) coach at Penn State. The owners could not stop the dogs and they tore after the woman as she tried to unlock her door...horrific, blood and body parts everywhere. These dogs are like extra, extra large pitbulls with a nasty disposition, and I don't want to hear the bullshit about dogs being violent only when raised that way etc....I'm an expert on the subject...hence my handle.

That is the subject matter of the Red Zone. A couple of SF lawyers came under the spell of a mesmerizing Aryan nations guy who was locked up in Pelican Bay (max prison in CA), yet he still was running all kinds of schemes from behind prison walls. One was a Presa Canario breeding operation. The two SF lawyers were caring for a couple of the Presa Canarios. The dogs wound up killing a lacrosse coach who lived in their apt building, tearing the woman to pieces.

"Red Zone" refers to some kind of zombie-like trance that supposedly the dogs enter when attacking. Supposedly once they go into 'red zone' nothing can halt the attack short of killing the dog.

towhee wrote:

Supposedly once they go into 'red zone' nothing can halt the attack short of killing the dog.

Except Cesar Milan, of course.

Diane Whipple was her name - RIP, and may those responsible burn in Hell.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Whipple

i was at a dog park this past summer and someone had a dogo argentino. i had never heard of the breed and he was the sweetest thing. he start playing with a doberman and they were having fun then all of a sudden the dogo went nuts and tore the doberman apart. it was really scary. one minute everything was fine, the next it was a horror show. afterward the owner admitted his dog had dog aggression issues, yet he brought him to a dog park and let him run unleashed.

Dog fighting has ruined breeds like pit bulls, presa canario and other similar strong jawed fighting dogs. Many dogs have very vicious and violent origins. Basenjis and rhodesian ridgebacks were lion hunters. English bull dogs were used in bull baiting (basically a sport where a bull is placed in a ring with a bunch of dogs to see whether the dogs could take down the bull). Now, these breeds are very docile. Pits, rotts and similar breeds have been favorites in dog fighting rings across the US for several decades. The result is generations of dogs that have been bred to fight and kill. It is impossible to know whether one particular dog has killer lineage or whether and when that dog may act on that instinct. But, it is more than likely in there due to the fact that there has been so much breeding for fighting.

If you do not believe that pits and relatives cannot be bred to carry fighting instincts, then explain to me why my border collie who has never been on a farm and has never been trained to heard will zig zag back and forth when walking in a crowd of people?

Get a nice mutt at the pound. You will save a pile of $ as exotic breeds like presas cost a lot. And you will be able to get homeowners insurance and won't scare the crap out of friends, neighbors, cable guy etc.

jimbol wrote:

o.k i'll say it..

pit bulls, rotts, ridgebacks, dogos, canarios, etc these type of dogs were NEVER BREEDED TO BE PETS!!!!!!!!!!!!

THESE ARE HUNTING, GUARD, FIGHTING DOGS THAT ONLY TRAINED CERTIFIED PROFESSIONALS SHOULD HANDLE..

IF THERE WAS A LAW BANNING THESE TYPE OF DOGS WITH A FEW EXCEPTIONS I WOULD SIGN IT IN A HEARTBEAT.. WAY TOO MANY CARELESS OWNERS WHO DO NOT KNOW ONE THING ABOUT THESE BREEDS..

I don't have a problem with any of these dogs. However, I do think we should have laws banning their owners.

You guys got trolled bigger than shit on this one.

Trolling or not, I would like to stop the misinformation by the self proclaimed "expert" Kerberos.

A Presa is not an "extra, extra large pitbull". It has a completely different temperament/makeup than a "pitbull". A Presa is a mollosser, a pit (using the general term) is a terrier. There is a major difference in the makeup/temperament and how the dog naturally reacts in certain situations. Presa's are more of a defense/guard dog, whereas a terrier is more prey driven. This is not a blanket statement because there are Presa's that lean more towards prey drive (few, but they do exist) and there can be pits raised to be defensive (not natural to a pit, more of a learned behavior). GENERALLY, pits are not good protection/guard dogs because they don't have the man aggression like other breeds. Of course, there are exceptions to every rule which is why I said generally.

Either way, a Presa is not for the novice dog owner. And yes, I own one.