What sports can cane corsos do? I have a magazine called " tiricks and games to teach your dog volume 5" adn theres a 3 page chart explaing all breeds adn what acctivities they cna do but ther ein no cane corso so i am clueless since all i seem to find on google when i search this is schuthund(sp?)

Edited by Tyler Mancini (07/05/2007 06:06 PM)
Edit reason: wrote wrong subject

Looks like most working cane corsos do protection training. I just did a quick google search.

Aside from that, I guess it depends on your dog! There's tons of dog sports you can do with your cane corso. Carting, obedience, agility, tracking, etc. I know a woman with a rhodesian ridgeback whose dogs did a Herding Instinct Test!

I'd start by deciding what you're interested in.

I have gotten around a bit and done alot of training in various places in the US. I will speak from my personal experiences with the CC. This is not to say this is the whole breed, or even half of it, but I have worked ALOT of CC, while I can recall two that I ran across that were great protection dogs. BASED ON MY EXPERIENCES those two were rare in their abilities. 97% of the CC that I seen are good backyard deterrents. Most lacked the drives for serious sport work, and sport work in general. They're are those that can do it, but you will look high and dry to find them, and expect to go through quite a few to be modest. It would be a longshot for anyone to prove to me otherwise. The ratio of CC I'v seen doesn't look good as a sport or serious protection prospect. A guard dog yes, but a guard dog, is to "LOOK" tough and bark to raise alarm. I would give them that.

I make my post based again off MY experiences with the breed. I by no means have seen them all or close to it, but as someone who knows a little about dogs and dog training, I'd say based on Ratio, I'd never buy one for sport or protection. If I had extra kennel space and just loved the dog for the breed I might would get one. If you want to do sport work or protection, why not severely increase your odds with a Mal or shepherd? If it is sport work you want to get into. Like Ed has said before and it's so true. It's like taking a huge pickup truck to a formula 1 race. Sure you may get lucky and win, because of luck like the forumla car blow up and you cross the finish line first, but odds are severely in favor of you loosing.
Just my thoughts.
~CHRIS DUHON