Cane Corso Forum
General => Introductions => Topic started by: mandymmr on February 24, 2011, 06:06:35 PM
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Hello all, I have just found this forum. I have a 6.5 year old male doberman named Zeus, and just gotten a Cane Corso puppy (8 weeks)...caesar.
Zeus had puppy strangles when he was little so he has scaring on his nose. We almost lost him many times...but we fought together and over came. Now the only thing left of it is the scaring and missing fur!
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Congrats on your new pup and welcome to the forum.
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any helpful info or tips are more than welcome
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Welcome from fort Wayne Indiana
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Welcome, where are you in Indiana.
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Welcome from So. IL. What part of IN are you from? Will you be showing your Corso puppy when he's old enough?
Trish
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Welcome from fort Wayne Indiana
tooo funny I am also in Fort Wyane....
no I don't show my dogs...they are just family pets that are pretty much like my kids...
I am right now contemplating on getting his ears cropped (his tail wasn't done either)...
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Hi, My name is Tom I live in the Waynedale area, I have one corso Rio,s his name, My son lives out north he has 3 corsos. where did you get your puppy , please post pics. Thanks Rio,s Dad. We need a CORSO CLUB in the Fort.
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well I can't figure out how to post pictures on here yet... I got him in Marion.
I have to say that I am BEYOND frustrated. I am on another forum for Doberman's and I am getting so much crap from them about Cane Corso's are dog aggressive...um last time I heard so are Doberman's and rottweilers and pit bulls...if you don't socialize them and raise them correctly. sorry for the rant I am just frustrated by their 2 sidedness
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People say what they want, I worry about it only when I listen. Corso are great dogs, really nice pets.
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Welcome and enjoy from Wayne IL. ;)
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I know people that have 2 intact male cane corsos! If you can maintain a strong leadeship role in your home, there is no reason this won't work. You are raising the puppy with your dobie, which means, you will be the one who decides how their relationship manifests as the "pack leader" if you will
A couple times while our corso was growing up, he tried to act tough with our other dog for no reason. He got choked out, put on the floor, and lost all his free-range privelages in the house for a week until he remembered his place in the house. We havent had a problem since. Help reinforce in your home that the dobie is higher in the pack for now (feed him first, let him have access to areas the corso doesn't). In our home, the 60 lb pit mix is the queen and the corso is at the bottom of the pecking order....this is what worked for us...
I'm not saying your Corso won't necessarily try to challenge the pack order once in a while, but as long as you are ready to be there to remind him of his place, it shouldn't escalate. Is the dobie neutered? One thing you might not want to do is leave them alone together unattended until you really feel like you know and understand their reltionship with each other...but they are your dogs, you know them best, and no one can predict how things will turn out!
By the way, your dogs are beautiful! Keep us updated!
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how does one post pictures in the threads?
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A couple times while our corso was growing up, he tried to act tough with our other dog for no reason. He got choked out, put on the floor, and lost all his free-range privelages in the house for a week until he remembered his place in the house.
A quick question - how do you choke out a puppy - do you choke/hang it with a choke collar until it becomes unconcious?
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Sounds rather severe to "choke out" your growing pup. I find mine like to please us and don't need a heavy hand. JMO >:(
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Welcome to the forum...can't wait to see some pics:D
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Sounds rather severe to "choke out" your growing pup. I find mine like to please us and don't need a heavy hand. JMO >:(
Sorry, let me elaborate, 120 lb. 10 month old pup, growling and snapping at my other dog, had to be corrected...i grabbed his choke chain, yanked it up to give a quick correction, then told him to down and put him on his side....i am 100% sure that if he hadn't been corrected in this manner, he wouldve eventually thought it ok to bute/attack my other dog, which is unnaccetable in my house
a dog's correction should, in my opinion, match the intesity of his unwanted behavior...if he begins snarling at my other dog because he doesn't want her near us, he needs to be shown that he doesn't choose where she goes, but i do...
happened twice within a week, 2 years later never happened again...my 60 lb. dog has never been hurt by him, and he does not need corrections anymore...success in my eyes...
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A quick question - how do you choke out a puppy - do you choke/hang it with a choke collar until it becomes unconcious?
Not a puppy, a growing adolescent dog...with a dominance issue...
Of course he never lost consiousness...we used the dominant dog collar with him...all it takes is a quick correction to snap them out of the mindset...
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"Sorry, let me elaborate, 120 lb. 10 month old pup, growling and snapping at my other dog, had to be corrected...i grabbed his choke chain, yanked it up to give a quick correction, then told him to down and put him on his side....i am 100% sure that if he hadn't been corrected in this manner, he wouldve eventually thought it ok to bute/attack my other dog, which is unnaccetable in my house
a dog's correction should, in my opinion, match the intesity of his unwanted behavior...if he begins snarling at my other dog because he doesn't want her near us, he needs to be shown that he doesn't choose where she goes, but i do...
happened twice within a week, 2 years later never happened again...my 60 lb. dog has never been hurt by him, and he does not need corrections anymore...success in my eyes..."
OK I understand now what you are saying. Using the choke as a correction is OK. I just had it in my head the puppy was younger and the phrase "choke out" gets to me because I have seen dog show handlers "choke out" dogs they were showing to straighten them out. Mind you it was not to unconsciousness but it was severe. They literally had the dogs front feet off the ground choking them, I was totally disgusted. Was not done to corsos BTW.
Sorry I kind of hijacked the thread.
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Thats cool, I appreciate your concern for the doggies...my dogs are my kids and I'm very happy with the love and peace in my household :) The way I said it was kind of misleading now looking back on it..."choke out" was not the right term to use, rather "correct"
Sorry also for the hijack :)