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The Current Profile of the Presa
Canario
Taken from the Dogo Canario Club of
America Web Site.
The Presa Canario is an animal of medium type. He has a rustic and robust
appearance and is mesomophoric, in a rectangular shape that provides him
great flexibility. Endowed with good musculature, conferring the power of a
guard dog, their limbs have good forequarters separated from each other
giving necessary stability.
He should have a good front, with cylindrical ribs. The breastbone should
descend to the height of the elbow. The medium size should be 61-66
centimeters in the males and 57-62 in the females. The front limbs should be
thick and separate, never hitting the body. The hind should have good
muscular development, long legs with low hocks, a wide croup and a very high
implantation of the tail, which should be thick in the origin and at rest
comes to the height of the hock. His dorsolumbar line is ascending to the
croup.
The head is solid, of square aspect, wide cranium and proportionate. The
cranium convex with the nasofrontal depression not very abrupt , depression
between the frontal sinuses very pronounced, wrinkles with certain symmetry
and mastoid and temporal muscles should be proportional and not stand out.
The face or muzzle represents 40% of the total of the head with medium thick
and fleshy lips covering the superior to the inferior [jaws] with certain
flaccidity.
The teeth are well assembled, with a base of very strong implantation and
bite in scissors or inverted scissors. The tongue should present well marked
grooves and be of rosy tone. The eyes should be slightly oval,
almond-shaped, big, very separate, with tight lids and pigmentation in the
most dark black possible. The conjunctiva should not be visible. The ears
are of small size, of high implantation and preferably clipped they should
remain erect and of triangular form. The neck, short and with the loose skin
forming a slight jowl, is cylindrical, straight, solid, muscular.
The hair, of rustic appearance, generally short in all over but is denser at
the throat, neck and crest of the buttocks. The most desirable color is the
striped in all their ranges,to bardino, as well as the tawny. Accepted is
the presence of white marks on the neck, chest, hands and feet. The black
color is accepted, although it's not very frequent*.
*note- this article was written prior to the FCI recognition of the breed.
The black coat is unacceptable as of June 2001
Translated
Haridian, Club Espaņol del Presa Canario
Miguel Angel Gonzales
[1998]
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