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we are against the fights of dogs.
The
statute of the Argentine Dogo Club contained in its article 9 a disposition
that final prohibited the fights of dogs.
The
absence of this disposition in the body of the effective regulation,
does not have never to be interpreted like a possibility of consent
to the custom for the so mentioned "functional gymnastics".
Nothing
else foolish that the pretension to justify low instincts hiding them
in pretended tecnicism.
This
arises because some breed "masters", do an erroneous interpretation
of the necessity of "functional gymnastics" for the maintenance
of the qualities that must be close to the Dogo.
It
is lamentable that some breeders make participate their animals in wild
fights and integrate clubs of canine gladiators, that not only reduce
the human condition, but that it is also completely opposite to the
gymnastics that the Dogo must make.
It
is doubtless that when forming a new breed, derived from already existing
breeds, and of which characters are considered necessary, by selection
are also extracted some others that are ineffective for the function
by which the breed was created. In the successive crossovers the bad
caracteristics must be eliminated.
There
are some judges that punish with severity the appearance of some spot,
that sometimes only has the size of a freckle, to consider it as an
atavic regression, but we see them defending the fight of Dogos as a
favorable "functional gymnastics", without realizing that
it is a bad thing for the dogo to fight with its equal ones, because
completely destroys his quality of the pack dog, that is the complementation.
In
conclusion, the fightings are "antifunctional gymnastics"
that will attempt not only against the dog that practices it but against
its descendants, that will receive the desirable contribution of those
characters and habits that were cultivated for their greater functionality
and the undesirable tendency to transmit itself in several generations
would turn it in an inept one for their work of hunting in group.
Don
Ruben Passet Lastra.
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