Cuckorlando, Not exactly.. the argument of the "black bloodhound" is not exactly true. That argument is used by non CAFIB breeders to convince (or trick, whichever way you look at it) people that have done some reasearch into the breed but have not dug deep enough yet. See the "black bloodhound" is called the st hubert's hound and it was extremely rare even when it was around. Whoever told you that bloodhounds only came in black or white back then was either misinformed or deliberatly misinformed you on purpose unless they are thinking that the monks of belgium sent in the black variants directly into Brazil in the 1200s..... Now lets just say that is the case...why is it that CAFIB kennels cannot produce a single black dog? we all know that the black color is very dominant and you do NOT need a black dog to produce black dogs. Paulo Santos Cruz is the Father of the Fila Brasileiro. He was hired to write the standard of the Fila Brasileiro before he knew anything of the breed. He was sent to a kennel in Rio to view some dogs and write a standard based on that.....he later viewed more kennels and realized that there was no consistency among them. When he went to MG he saw the consistency he was after. he petitioned to get the standard changed but the big $ kennels fought it. He wrote the CAFIB standard in the 70s and that is where it stood. The CAFIB standard has not changed but the other standard has. infact I dont know if it went through its final change yet but it will change to include that if the dog is too agressive it will be disqualified! and then welcome to the AKC where the breed could finish being completly destroyed. The CBKC people will also tell you that theirs is the only recognized standard when that cant be further from the truth. the truth is that the CAFIB standard is and has been approved bu the ministry of agriculture in Brazil while the CBKC had been dropped several time because of faulty record holding in regards to the Fila Brasileiro. Non CAFIB breeders have been trained to say exactly what the customer needs to hear but all the buyer needs to do is some research and find out the truth on their own.
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OdeMx, Thanks. I am constantly reading and educating myself so i could be able to better understand this breed and to better defend it from extinction.
---------- Post added at 06:35 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:32 PM ----------
OdeMx, Thanks. I am constantly reading and educating myself so i could be able to better understand this breed and to better defend it from extinction.