Read more about the article Breed standard – general appearance and brief historical summary: catch dog and medium size dog
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Breed standard – general appearance and brief historical summary: catch dog and medium size dog

A few people were concerned about some words and statements of the currently published FCI breed standard for Presa Canario. I’d like to state again - it’s not a new standard. This is the true breed standard just canceling changes that weren’t true to the breed. Here’s the…

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9 October 2023
Read more about the article FCI announces new-old official breed standard for Presa Canario. Here is the explanation why
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FCI announces new-old official breed standard for Presa Canario. Here is the explanation why

If you haven’t yet it’s worth reading the standard. It’s actually worth reading the breed standard often and thinking about each section. I would like to give you a bit of insight into the timeline of changes and why many of us are happy and some aren’t.Presa Canario has…

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5 October 2023
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Last year, spring 2022 we decided to try UKC conformation shows and what a year it was!!!We managed to Champion 15 dogs and counting! While not showing just one or two dogs Ch Faycan de Rey Gladiador managed to be in breed TOP 10 for 2022! And his…

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30 September 2023
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The True Perro de Presa Canario by Manuel Curto Gracia for Canidapresa

By Manuel Curto GraciaIrema Curto kennelsPublished in Canidapresa issue March - April 2000The Canario (natural of Gran Canaria) lives on horseback between the pastoral and agricultural past and the modernity that imposes the industrial development, the tourism of masses, whit all what it mean and tolerates, and the…

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5 March 2023
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Introduction to Perro de Ganado Majorero – Manuel Curto

By Manuel Curto GraciaIrema Curto KennelsTo date, we have written enough about the Perro de Presa Canario -large number of articles, published in canary newspapers, in Spanish and foreign specialized magazines, several books, reportages that were emitted by the Spanish Television in the Canary Islands, videos, like the…

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5 March 2023
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Perro de Ganado Majorero – another extraordinary dog

By Manuel Curto GraciasIrema Curto KennelsWe arrived, me and my friends, to a house of goatherds in the middle of a species of stony desert - Fuerteventura is a basically dry, stony island, and with very many goats, the best goats of the archipelago. Many years ago, a…

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5 March 2023
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Perro de Ganado Majoero – The dog named Major

By Manuel Curto GraciasIrema Curto KennelsMy dog Major was already almost adult when came to see me at Tamaimo (Tamaimo is a little town in the northwest of Tenerife, in where I lived in those days) a young couple to see if I had some puppy of presa…

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5 March 2023