dolcecorso
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Wondering how some people here have dealt with nightmare breed discrimination with their corso. I could tell dozens of crazy, and quite frankly unbelievable stories of blatant discrimination against her because of her breed, but I will try to keep my examples short.
For background: I have a 3 y/o female cane corso that I rescued at 11 months. I did extensive training with her and still reinforce that training every week to this day. She has never had any negative incident in her life with me. She is friendly and loving of all people, dogs, other animals, anything. Not to toot my own horn but I am complimented constantly on how well behaved she is by people who can appreciate her breed and not judge at first sight. So any discrimination against her that I am listing below is 100% purely because of what she looks like.
Recently I moved into a new apartment that has an "in-house" doggy day care. I work in the office during the day, so I figured this would be perfect to have her be taken care of and play with dogs at this day care while I am out working. To my surprise, the VERY first day I brought her down to enroll her, the day care employee at the front desk told me he's already heard of her because other dog owners at the apartment complex came to tell him "if that cane corso starts coming to day care, I will be taking my dog somewhere else... It's not safe here if there's a cane corso". I was stunned to hear such a thing, and the day care employee said the same... He was shocked that owners would say that without even knowing the dog! He let her in anyway, as she has never had any incident so they couldn't deny her. Flash forward a few weeks and at that point he had completely fallen in love with her. They have seriously become the best of friends... but just last week he called me and said the actual OWNER of the day care has decided to ban my dog!! I asked what possibly happened to provoke that and he told me that the owner told him too many other dog parents had complained about a cane corso being in the day care with their smaller dogs.... so mine has to go. but wait. it gets worse....
This employee who has become best friends with my dog, lets call him Mike. Mike revealed to me who the dog parents were that called.....and to my surprise its the parents of the most untrained, out of control, reactive dogs I have ever laid my eyes on. Seriously... these dogs behave as though they have mad cow disease. Apparently the owners of said dogs claim that my dog triggers aggressive reactions in their dog because their dog is scared of cane corso's. HUH?? My dog has been scared plenty of times and has never reacted inappropriately. What on earth?!?!?
The employee felt so bad that the owner kicked my dog out, he literally offered to come walk her for free while I worked because he fell so in love with her. We were both so shocked. Now my dog goes to a day care where large breeds are appreciated, but my life in this apartment complex is hell. It is the most backwards thing I've ever seen. Dog owners of terribly behaved dogs complain about my perfectly well behaved dog because of what she looks like.... all while their dog has never received a day of training in its life. How can this be!!! I could understand if my dog had acted aggressively, or if she was misbehaved in any way, shape, or form.... but she never has and I have worked very hard to create structure and good training for her to be a well behaved, confident dog.
Ultimately it is really heart breaking to work so hard on training a dog, and be successful, only to have that work dismissed by owners of the some of the most terribly trained dogs I have ever seen. I believe people should get dogs if they are prepared to train them and take on the responsibility of their dogs behavior. Unfortunately, many people in this building get dogs as accessories, and training is not part of the picture. As a result, my dog has been out casted from everything due to their judgement.
How do you deal with this as owners of "bully breeds" as they call them??? I find it really challenging when people who have put no work into their dog have the audacity to say and do these things to my dog because of her breed. Any advice is appreciated. I am really devastated.
Meanwhile, my dog gets report cards from this new day care (that accepted her after she was banned from the apartment one), and they say nothing but the most positive things. Once again, they compliment me up and down on her demeaner. Yet when we get back to the apartment its as if she eats children for breakfast and is the most vicious animal to walk this earth. Ugh.
For background: I have a 3 y/o female cane corso that I rescued at 11 months. I did extensive training with her and still reinforce that training every week to this day. She has never had any negative incident in her life with me. She is friendly and loving of all people, dogs, other animals, anything. Not to toot my own horn but I am complimented constantly on how well behaved she is by people who can appreciate her breed and not judge at first sight. So any discrimination against her that I am listing below is 100% purely because of what she looks like.
Recently I moved into a new apartment that has an "in-house" doggy day care. I work in the office during the day, so I figured this would be perfect to have her be taken care of and play with dogs at this day care while I am out working. To my surprise, the VERY first day I brought her down to enroll her, the day care employee at the front desk told me he's already heard of her because other dog owners at the apartment complex came to tell him "if that cane corso starts coming to day care, I will be taking my dog somewhere else... It's not safe here if there's a cane corso". I was stunned to hear such a thing, and the day care employee said the same... He was shocked that owners would say that without even knowing the dog! He let her in anyway, as she has never had any incident so they couldn't deny her. Flash forward a few weeks and at that point he had completely fallen in love with her. They have seriously become the best of friends... but just last week he called me and said the actual OWNER of the day care has decided to ban my dog!! I asked what possibly happened to provoke that and he told me that the owner told him too many other dog parents had complained about a cane corso being in the day care with their smaller dogs.... so mine has to go. but wait. it gets worse....
This employee who has become best friends with my dog, lets call him Mike. Mike revealed to me who the dog parents were that called.....and to my surprise its the parents of the most untrained, out of control, reactive dogs I have ever laid my eyes on. Seriously... these dogs behave as though they have mad cow disease. Apparently the owners of said dogs claim that my dog triggers aggressive reactions in their dog because their dog is scared of cane corso's. HUH?? My dog has been scared plenty of times and has never reacted inappropriately. What on earth?!?!?
The employee felt so bad that the owner kicked my dog out, he literally offered to come walk her for free while I worked because he fell so in love with her. We were both so shocked. Now my dog goes to a day care where large breeds are appreciated, but my life in this apartment complex is hell. It is the most backwards thing I've ever seen. Dog owners of terribly behaved dogs complain about my perfectly well behaved dog because of what she looks like.... all while their dog has never received a day of training in its life. How can this be!!! I could understand if my dog had acted aggressively, or if she was misbehaved in any way, shape, or form.... but she never has and I have worked very hard to create structure and good training for her to be a well behaved, confident dog.
Ultimately it is really heart breaking to work so hard on training a dog, and be successful, only to have that work dismissed by owners of the some of the most terribly trained dogs I have ever seen. I believe people should get dogs if they are prepared to train them and take on the responsibility of their dogs behavior. Unfortunately, many people in this building get dogs as accessories, and training is not part of the picture. As a result, my dog has been out casted from everything due to their judgement.
How do you deal with this as owners of "bully breeds" as they call them??? I find it really challenging when people who have put no work into their dog have the audacity to say and do these things to my dog because of her breed. Any advice is appreciated. I am really devastated.
Meanwhile, my dog gets report cards from this new day care (that accepted her after she was banned from the apartment one), and they say nothing but the most positive things. Once again, they compliment me up and down on her demeaner. Yet when we get back to the apartment its as if she eats children for breakfast and is the most vicious animal to walk this earth. Ugh.