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Posted by DOGOMAN
on 12/18/2011, 5:37 pm, in reply to "1st dogo pup"
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I don't know you personally, so I really can't tell for sure. Some of the better dogo "handlers" (not in the show sense; I mean country people; hunters) I have ever met don't even know how to read (literally), and their dogs work like heaven.
There is this ingrained notion in people that if they read a lot about something, they know it. I studied my ass-out in med school for 6 years and when I started my residency and was faced with real patients and real grave diseases at 23, I didn't know my ass from my head.
By no means I am implying that research is useless; what I mean is that in the end, what drives a dog to behave like you want him to is what you carry inside. Dogs have a way to know when someone is "following the instructions", instead of that someone being real boss.
It is probable that you have read way too many articles. The proof is in the pudding; the dogo is a dog; nothing more, nothing less. Strong-willed, hard-tempered, but also loving and companion as few. Shane's tip about a rescue is a good one, maybe the only factor I would weigh in is if you get an adult dogo, you don't know what you get. You haven't raised it and you can't predict it's behaviour. I don't know how it is in the US, but in Argentina a "rescue" usually means a dog that is not reliable and has been given up for issues such as agression.
Good luck and give it a try if you are so enthusiastic about it.
Marcelo
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