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Hi and welcome to Ozark Hills Cane Corsos. If you are here, then you have decided to look for your next family companion. We know that this is an important decision for you and will try to help answer your questions about this noble breed, the Cane Corso Italiano. So how about we look at some of the characteristics of them and help you make an educated decision about your next family member.
My name is Scott Crane, and I raise these incredible creatures along with my girlfriend, Tammy, and my twin daughters, Hannah and Hailey. We have fallen in love with Cane Corsos and can't say enough good about them. This is the only breed that we raise. All of our Canes are purebred and AKC registered. There are numerous champions in their lineage from well known lines. You can see the pedigrees by clicking on the dog's picture and going to his biography page, dedicated to just that dog. Our puppies are on Eukaneuba Large Breed Puppy and adults on Royal Canin Large Breed. These two foods ensure proper nutrition and vitamins while keeping weights at a healthy level.
The Cane Corso breed is what man has been looking for in a dog for generations: large, strong, intelligent, highly trainable, beautiful, majestic, loving and loyal to family, intimidating and downright scarey to intruders. Because of their intelligence and trainability, they can be used as a family companion, watch dog for the house or place of business, a soldier, a police officer, or hunting companion. The Romans used them as dogs of war and for hunting wild boar thousands of years ago. They were used as dogs of war during the previous century, so much so that the Cane Corso breed almost went extinct in the 1970's.
If you are looking for a family companion who will also look out for the wife and kids while you are at work, a Cane Corso puppy is the breed for you. Cane corsos are easily potty trained, train easily to do a whole range of activities. They love exercise and will socialize well with other people and dogs when brought up that way. They watch out for their owners and kids. Our Cane Corso puppies are brought up around our children to help them with socialization with kids. We also have a small dog, Zeppelin, who is a Brussel Griffon. Zeppelin stays with the puppies while they are being weened from mommy, playing with them and keeping their mind off of mom. Zeppelin also teaches the puppies not to treat small dogs as prey, a problem with some larger dogs. The Cane Corso puppies are smaller than him when they are weened. When they go their new homes, the puppies are larger than Zeppelin. He does a great job in guiding them in their progression. When brought up in a family environment, while being loving with their owners and tolerant of visitors, Cane Corso's have an unusual built in ability to sense when someone doesn't have the best motives. If your Cane Corso is friendly with people and suddenly growls at someone or won't have anything to do with someone, PAY ATTENTION! That person doesn't have your best interests at heart.
As we see more and more municipalities and government agencies restrict our rights to protect ourselves and our families with firearms, alternative methods must be sought out. While I advocate our God given, constitutional rights to keep and bear arms, I also recognize that there are limits and shortcomings with the use of firearms for home protection. Cane Corso pets have proven themselves, time after time, to be the ultimate pet. A gun can be taken away or not be retrieved in time in the event an intruder invades your home. A gun requires the owner to be conscious and present at home to be effective in detering thieves, rapists, and murderers. A Cane Corso dog, on the other hand, sees, hears, and smells better than humans. He will sense the intruder(s) before the owner will. A Cane Corso doesn't need to unlock a gun safe or load the gun. The owner doesn't have to be present for the dog to be effective at detering an intruder. Most of the time, just the presence of the Cane Corso and his bark will convince an intruder to pick an easier target elsewhere.
In 2010 I received a call from Ben, a gentleman from Texas, who was interested in adding a Cane Corso puppy to the family. Ben shared an interesting story with me about what convinced him that this was the breed he wanted, about his sister's Cane Corso. His sister, who lived in southern Texas, had a two year old Cane Corso as their family pet. While they were on vacation, they left their Cane at home with adequate food and a doggey door so he could use the restroom outside. They came home from their vacation to find a note on their door to call the police when they go home. After that phone call and a talk with the neighbor, they found out that two would be thieves broke into their house while they were gone. Unbeknownst to the theives, the family pet was still there, guarding the house. The Cane Corso chased the thieves into the bathroom, and kept them cornered there for two days. After numerous failed attempts to get by the home guardian, hungry and desperate, unable to crawl out the small bathroom window, the two would-be-thieves finally got the attention of the neighbor and begged them to call the police to get them out! The thieves would rather face the police and prison than face that terror in the hall! Yet, this dog was nice as could be with the family and friends. The Cane Corso instinctively knew who wasn't supposed to be there and knew that these gentlemen didn't have good motives.
Cane corsos also make great hunting companions. Corsos have been used for hunting longer than almost any other breed around. They have incredible stamina and strength. If you are chosing one for bird dog, the longer the muzzle or snout, the better he will be at sniffing out the birds. I recommend one that has neither the very short, wide muzzle like our Tank, nor the narrow long muzzle like a Collie. If you look in the Puppy Page, the mother, Teiran, is an excellent example of a Cane Corso that has the perfect balance of Cane Corso head and scenting ability.
If you don't have much time to spent with your new puppy, please don't do the puppy a disservice and take him home. Having a Cane Corso, or any pet for that matter, is not only a joy, but a responsibility. They need proper nutrition, exercise, and shots. Cane corsos need and thrive on training, love, and attention. We stress early training as a puppy. It is much easier to control a 20 or thirty pound puppy than it is with a 140 pound adult. An unruly, aggressive adult Cane Corso is a nightmare for his family. But it doesn't have to be this way, if the family will just take the time to train their puppy has he grows up.
Don't let your puppy sleep in bed with you! While it is heart warming to have that little 15 pound cuddlebug snuggled up with you as you both drift off to dream land, things change as the puppy grows older and bigger. Dogs like to STRETCH as they sleep. About the time your Cane Corso reaches 6 months old, you will realize that he is no longer sleeping with you, you are sleeping with him, with only one little sliver of the bed on one side for your body. By this time, you will not be able to keep him out of your bed short of kicking him out of your room and shutting the door. The habit is ingrained in him now. But here is the real problem. Dogs are pack animals. As such, they establish a pecking order among the pack much as wolves do with alpha male and female, a beta male and female, and so on down the line. This behavior isn't altered much when their pack includes humans. Your Cane Corso, like any dog, will naturally try to find his place in the pecking order of your family. Have you ever seen wild animals fight for dominance on wilderness shows on TV? What does the victor do when he wins? Usually, he assumes a position higher than or on top of the loser and the loser willingly submits to a position lower than the winner. This physically higher position is an acknowledgement that the winner is in a higher position in the pack than the loser. Now, translated to the family dynamic. If your puppy sleeps on the same level, in the same bed as you, he is going to assume that he is at the same level in the pack as you and doesn't need to mind you. To let him sleep with you only confuses him. Might sound crazy to you, but it makes sense to a puppy or dog and that's what is important when it comes to your new family member. Have your new puppy sleep in a travel crate on the floor next to your bed where he can see, hear and smell you at night for the first few nights. This helps him learn his position in your family and eases training. It also keeps him from having potty mistakes while you are asleep.
Potty training your new family member doesn't have to be hard. It just requires consistency, a little perseverance, a couple tricks. Dogs do not like to lay in their own urine or feces anymore that we do. So confining him to the travel crate at night will help train him to hold it. He may need to be taken out in the middle of the night for the first couple nights for a potty break. They are young and don't have the control an older dog will have. While you have him in the house, keep him on a 6 foot leash for the first week or so. When your puppy needs to go potty, he will get up and start sniffing the floor and turning in circles. If you have the leash on your wrist, you will be alerted to this activity immediately before the puppy has an "accident" in the house, and get him outside to his potty spot. Going potty first thing in the morning and 1o minutes after meals and before bedtime are critical times. Try for a potty break every 2 or 3 hours for the first week. This is where perseverance comes in. The time spent with your Cane Corso puppy in the first week pays huge dividends later.
Our website is still under construction, so bear with us as we continue to improve.
ttp://www.nextdaypets.com/
My name is Scott Crane, and I raise these incredible creatures along with my girlfriend, Tammy, and my twin daughters, Hannah and Hailey. We have fallen in love with Cane Corsos and can't say enough good about them. This is the only breed that we raise. All of our Canes are purebred and AKC registered. There are numerous champions in their lineage from well known lines. You can see the pedigrees by clicking on the dog's picture and going to his biography page, dedicated to just that dog. Our puppies are on Eukaneuba Large Breed Puppy and adults on Royal Canin Large Breed. These two foods ensure proper nutrition and vitamins while keeping weights at a healthy level.
The Cane Corso breed is what man has been looking for in a dog for generations: large, strong, intelligent, highly trainable, beautiful, majestic, loving and loyal to family, intimidating and downright scarey to intruders. Because of their intelligence and trainability, they can be used as a family companion, watch dog for the house or place of business, a soldier, a police officer, or hunting companion. The Romans used them as dogs of war and for hunting wild boar thousands of years ago. They were used as dogs of war during the previous century, so much so that the Cane Corso breed almost went extinct in the 1970's.
If you are looking for a family companion who will also look out for the wife and kids while you are at work, a Cane Corso puppy is the breed for you. Cane corsos are easily potty trained, train easily to do a whole range of activities. They love exercise and will socialize well with other people and dogs when brought up that way. They watch out for their owners and kids. Our Cane Corso puppies are brought up around our children to help them with socialization with kids. We also have a small dog, Zeppelin, who is a Brussel Griffon. Zeppelin stays with the puppies while they are being weened from mommy, playing with them and keeping their mind off of mom. Zeppelin also teaches the puppies not to treat small dogs as prey, a problem with some larger dogs. The Cane Corso puppies are smaller than him when they are weened. When they go their new homes, the puppies are larger than Zeppelin. He does a great job in guiding them in their progression. When brought up in a family environment, while being loving with their owners and tolerant of visitors, Cane Corso's have an unusual built in ability to sense when someone doesn't have the best motives. If your Cane Corso is friendly with people and suddenly growls at someone or won't have anything to do with someone, PAY ATTENTION! That person doesn't have your best interests at heart.
As we see more and more municipalities and government agencies restrict our rights to protect ourselves and our families with firearms, alternative methods must be sought out. While I advocate our God given, constitutional rights to keep and bear arms, I also recognize that there are limits and shortcomings with the use of firearms for home protection. Cane Corso pets have proven themselves, time after time, to be the ultimate pet. A gun can be taken away or not be retrieved in time in the event an intruder invades your home. A gun requires the owner to be conscious and present at home to be effective in detering thieves, rapists, and murderers. A Cane Corso dog, on the other hand, sees, hears, and smells better than humans. He will sense the intruder(s) before the owner will. A Cane Corso doesn't need to unlock a gun safe or load the gun. The owner doesn't have to be present for the dog to be effective at detering an intruder. Most of the time, just the presence of the Cane Corso and his bark will convince an intruder to pick an easier target elsewhere.
In 2010 I received a call from Ben, a gentleman from Texas, who was interested in adding a Cane Corso puppy to the family. Ben shared an interesting story with me about what convinced him that this was the breed he wanted, about his sister's Cane Corso. His sister, who lived in southern Texas, had a two year old Cane Corso as their family pet. While they were on vacation, they left their Cane at home with adequate food and a doggey door so he could use the restroom outside. They came home from their vacation to find a note on their door to call the police when they go home. After that phone call and a talk with the neighbor, they found out that two would be thieves broke into their house while they were gone. Unbeknownst to the theives, the family pet was still there, guarding the house. The Cane Corso chased the thieves into the bathroom, and kept them cornered there for two days. After numerous failed attempts to get by the home guardian, hungry and desperate, unable to crawl out the small bathroom window, the two would-be-thieves finally got the attention of the neighbor and begged them to call the police to get them out! The thieves would rather face the police and prison than face that terror in the hall! Yet, this dog was nice as could be with the family and friends. The Cane Corso instinctively knew who wasn't supposed to be there and knew that these gentlemen didn't have good motives.
Cane corsos also make great hunting companions. Corsos have been used for hunting longer than almost any other breed around. They have incredible stamina and strength. If you are chosing one for bird dog, the longer the muzzle or snout, the better he will be at sniffing out the birds. I recommend one that has neither the very short, wide muzzle like our Tank, nor the narrow long muzzle like a Collie. If you look in the Puppy Page, the mother, Teiran, is an excellent example of a Cane Corso that has the perfect balance of Cane Corso head and scenting ability.
If you don't have much time to spent with your new puppy, please don't do the puppy a disservice and take him home. Having a Cane Corso, or any pet for that matter, is not only a joy, but a responsibility. They need proper nutrition, exercise, and shots. Cane corsos need and thrive on training, love, and attention. We stress early training as a puppy. It is much easier to control a 20 or thirty pound puppy than it is with a 140 pound adult. An unruly, aggressive adult Cane Corso is a nightmare for his family. But it doesn't have to be this way, if the family will just take the time to train their puppy has he grows up.
Don't let your puppy sleep in bed with you! While it is heart warming to have that little 15 pound cuddlebug snuggled up with you as you both drift off to dream land, things change as the puppy grows older and bigger. Dogs like to STRETCH as they sleep. About the time your Cane Corso reaches 6 months old, you will realize that he is no longer sleeping with you, you are sleeping with him, with only one little sliver of the bed on one side for your body. By this time, you will not be able to keep him out of your bed short of kicking him out of your room and shutting the door. The habit is ingrained in him now. But here is the real problem. Dogs are pack animals. As such, they establish a pecking order among the pack much as wolves do with alpha male and female, a beta male and female, and so on down the line. This behavior isn't altered much when their pack includes humans. Your Cane Corso, like any dog, will naturally try to find his place in the pecking order of your family. Have you ever seen wild animals fight for dominance on wilderness shows on TV? What does the victor do when he wins? Usually, he assumes a position higher than or on top of the loser and the loser willingly submits to a position lower than the winner. This physically higher position is an acknowledgement that the winner is in a higher position in the pack than the loser. Now, translated to the family dynamic. If your puppy sleeps on the same level, in the same bed as you, he is going to assume that he is at the same level in the pack as you and doesn't need to mind you. To let him sleep with you only confuses him. Might sound crazy to you, but it makes sense to a puppy or dog and that's what is important when it comes to your new family member. Have your new puppy sleep in a travel crate on the floor next to your bed where he can see, hear and smell you at night for the first few nights. This helps him learn his position in your family and eases training. It also keeps him from having potty mistakes while you are asleep.
Potty training your new family member doesn't have to be hard. It just requires consistency, a little perseverance, a couple tricks. Dogs do not like to lay in their own urine or feces anymore that we do. So confining him to the travel crate at night will help train him to hold it. He may need to be taken out in the middle of the night for the first couple nights for a potty break. They are young and don't have the control an older dog will have. While you have him in the house, keep him on a 6 foot leash for the first week or so. When your puppy needs to go potty, he will get up and start sniffing the floor and turning in circles. If you have the leash on your wrist, you will be alerted to this activity immediately before the puppy has an "accident" in the house, and get him outside to his potty spot. Going potty first thing in the morning and 1o minutes after meals and before bedtime are critical times. Try for a potty break every 2 or 3 hours for the first week. This is where perseverance comes in. The time spent with your Cane Corso puppy in the first week pays huge dividends later.
Our website is still under construction, so bear with us as we continue to improve.
ttp://www.nextdaypets.com/