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About Time Cane Corso: About Us
Our first retained pup, Chinga's daughter Chaos, served to confirm our suspicions that we had stumbled across an exceptional breed, and solidify our commitment and dedication to the future of the Cane Corso Italiano in the United States.
Over the years, our dedication is reflected in our consistency producing exceptional examples of the ideal Cane Corso, consistent in character, stable in temperament, and true to type with the original breed standard and country of origin.
Laura I am blessed with a beautiful family of four children, Hope, Tristan, Riley, and Emily, who are in training to be future Jr. Show Handlers for our dogs, and currently provide hours of puppy socialization and snuggling. Laura was born in Michigan, although she grew up in New Mexico (after being transplanted to the middle of the desert at the tender young age of five). When she's not doing graphic and website design, she can usually be found out working with the dogs or taking photographs. She's the oldest in a family of 12 children, and credits her warped sense of humor to family genetics & fun times growing up. We live in New Mexico, known as the Land of Enchantment, in the Rio Grande valley back up against the river bosque and big cottonwood trees, and just a brief drive from the Sandia Mountains. Despite the fact that NM became the 47th state in the USA in 1912, we still laugh about the multiple inquiries we receive asking if we can 'export' our pups to the US, and if they understand English or have been trained with Spanish commands!
Our Breeding Philosophy Do a bit of research on the Cane Corso breed today, and you will find heated opinions and various types of dogs that differ so widely they seem to have nothing in common but the name. As to our breeding of an "About Time" Cane Corso, I will quote a well respected Arabian breeder who said, "If you are not clear as to what you want, it is much more difficult to produce the horse you will like."
As we personally have researched and narrowed our selections to our breeding decisions, we find ourselves refining what we want to produce in the type of our own preference. Certainly, every corso breeder has their preferred ideal dog, as we have ours. The characteristics we breed toward are founded on the original Italian breed standard (FCI 343) of type. We breed to produce a very muscular dog with massive bone, a broad and deep chest, a wide square head, well angulated hindquarters, and an overall balanced and athletic build. Our ideal is a fit, athletic, and agile dog: powerful yet graceful, well muscled and solid, but not heavy and over-wrinkled. We breed for a stable well-rounded temperament; a dog with the nature to protect if needed, the drive to compete and work, but the stability to be trusted as a child's companion at the end of the day. Our ideal size range is with the Italian standard, from 85 to 125 lbs. Some will find this smaller than the "average" corso found in the US in comparison, since As an example of size versus functionality, About Time's Nyx, CAX, (photo at left), can complete a 600 yard lure coursing track in the 40 second range, versus full size geyhounds who complete the same track in the 50 second range. When competing at a lure couring event, Nyx, a Cane Corso Mastiff, outran all sighthounds present by a full 10 seconds, with bursts of speed up to 52 miles per hour! These amazing results are a direct reflection of true-to-type breeding producing an athletic and agile Cane Corso that can obtain powerful bursts of speed while athletically making tight turns without slowing down, and would never be possible for an oversized 150+ lb Cane Corso to achieve.
In a world of ordinary and conventional, only the most distinctive will ever leave a truly lasting impression.
Our Dogs
About Time Cane Corso puppies share consistent traits. They are energetic, observant, playful puppies, who mature into alert adults with that Pure Corso Personality: both strong and sensitive, protective yet gentle, intelligent, mischievous (and smart enough to often get away with it), loyal, faithful, and completely, totally, undeniably, devoted to their family. About Time Cane Corso dogs are selectively bred from exceptional heritage, imported directly from the treasured European bloodlines of Italy, Spain, Holland, Hungary, and Germany. We have chosen to work with some of the world's top European breeders who have painstakingly protected and preserved and the breed's genetic purity and functionality. The result is the continuance of an extraordinary breed founded on functionality: the exceptionally keen, agile, and At About Time Cane Corso we breed to better our bloodline and further our own breeding program. Every litter we breed is carefully planned with the goal of producing outstanding Cane Corso Puppies of exceptional quality. We know how much hard work goes into creating a beautiful intelligent and healthy Cane Corso puppy, and we want each of the families we chose for their new homes to know and appreciate the dedication that went into creating their new companion. |
About Time Cane Corso was established in 2004, after two years of research, with the acquisition of an exceptionally stunning black female named Chingalana. '
Faced with inconsistent type and unacceptable temperament issues in the breed within the US, we expanded our horizons by incorporating bloodlines from select Italian and European Cane Corso breeders. With the addition of several exceptional 
About Laura... I like the warmer seasons. I subject those around me to my quirky (oftentimes warped) sense of humor that is credited to (i.e.: blamed on) family genetics, and therefore not always fully under control.
Our philosophy is that a correctly bred Corso, raised and socialized responsibly, will lay at your feet, 
In the midst of the relatively recent establishment of this breed in the U.S. from Italy, we remember that the Cane Corso does not necessarily need massive improvement or change. We are careful of the ways we let fuzzy thinking and widely varying opinion about type, temperament, size, performance, changing standards of the show ring, hype of various kinds, or others' opinions, change our own personal standards, and the original dogs.
some American lines have been bred to a much larger size, even exceeding 150 lbs. This true-to-standard size, however, results in a dog that is athletic and agile, functional as the breed should be - versus an oversized dog that is winded after a couple laps around a show ring and experiences hip and health issues compounded by their weight.
We have a select small group of Cane Corsos here at About Time, carefully chosen with key points in mind. Versatility, temperament, drive, stability, health, conformation to the 
intelligent Cane Corso Italiano - free from the type and temperament faults found in many of the over-bred
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