So, I adopted a cane corso who is a rescue. To keep it short, her story goes like this: she was supposedly purchased from a breeder at six weeks, and after a week, she was surrendered to a shelter for being "too much puppy". The shelter didn't know what a "cane corso" was, assumed she was a pitbull despite her paperwork and her cropped tail, and went ahead and spayed her. She was eventually placed into a local boxer/cane corso rescue, and she came to me at four months old and 25 lbs. They figured she would be a petite girl due to her premature spay, and told me to expect her to top out around 80lbs.
Well, she stopped growing at 55lbs and is now two years old! She's very lanky (though muscular), and eats enough food for an 80lb dog but maintains her weight. She's athletic but only in bursts (she's lazy 80% of the time!), yet never gets fat. What are the chances she's some sort of mix instead of an actual cane? Would an early spay really make her 2/3 to 1/2 the size she should have been? I know she really should have been 80-100lbs. I am curious to do a doggie DNA test on her but I hear those are more for fun than actual accuracy. Curious what folks on this thread think based on her photo? Not sure if you can tell from the image, but she's blue brindle. Her eyes are brown (but as a puppy, she had one brown eye, one grey eye - as she got older, they changed to match).
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Well, she stopped growing at 55lbs and is now two years old! She's very lanky (though muscular), and eats enough food for an 80lb dog but maintains her weight. She's athletic but only in bursts (she's lazy 80% of the time!), yet never gets fat. What are the chances she's some sort of mix instead of an actual cane? Would an early spay really make her 2/3 to 1/2 the size she should have been? I know she really should have been 80-100lbs. I am curious to do a doggie DNA test on her but I hear those are more for fun than actual accuracy. Curious what folks on this thread think based on her photo? Not sure if you can tell from the image, but she's blue brindle. Her eyes are brown (but as a puppy, she had one brown eye, one grey eye - as she got older, they changed to match).
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