Frugo Pandilla de Barbaro

Sire: PIRIPIRI de Rey GladiadorDam: VALENTINA Pandilla de BarbaroImported from PolandPEDIGREE

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Recent history (Historia reciente)

Between 1960 and 1970, the survival of the Perro de Presa in the Canaries was in the hands of a few breeders. It's on the island of Gran Canaria where we could find the main center of existing population.We know of many isolated specimens from different parts of…

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History and Theories Surrounding the Origin of the Presa Canario

In his book "Historia General Sobre Las Islas Canarias" (General History of The Canary Islands) historian Augustin Miralles Torres comments that the islands took their name from the big dogs that were found of them, it and of two of those animals taken to the king of Mauritania…

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Year 1997 – the Current Profile of the Presa Canario

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…

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Breeding before recognition of the breed

The official recognition of the breed generated a new tendency in the breeding of the Presa Canario. Until that time the numerous breeders reproduced continuing with just their  personal valuing of the temperament of the animal, good structure, good head, good front and good bone. The approach to…

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Breeder from the past – Wilfred Thyfault “Guardian Angels Kennel”

Godo de Honto-BullBreeder: Juan de Dios VillanuevaOwner: Wilfred Thyfault, Guardian Angels KennelA breeder of over 40 years, aficionado of the bull breeds, breeder of hunting dogs, Bordeaux Mastiffs, American Bulldogs, Presa Canarios, game hens and prize cattle, an executive, farmer, rancher, amateur geneticist, world traveller and family man,…

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