Cao de Fila de Sao Miguel Information

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Cao de Fila de Sao Miguel

On the remote Portuguese isles of the Azores, in the middle of the Atlantic, lives a unique working dog, Cao de Fila de Sao Miguel. S�o Miguel is the main island of the Azores and has given its name for the breed. The working style of these dogs is aggressive, they are capable of dominating even the most bad-tempered animals that they are herding. So these cattle dogs from the Azores do not lack of courage. They are only working dogs and we think that they are not fit for being mere dogs of companion.

The Cao de Fila de Sao Miguel is an own cattle dog breed of the Azores which has been maintained pure for several hundreds of years. The official registration of these dogs was started in the 1980s, above all in order to secure the racial purity of the Cao de Fila de Sao Miguel. At that time, due to the regular modern communications, the Azores were opening themselves to the outer world and thus more and more dogs of other breeds were beginning to come ashore. This arouse the danger of a possible mixtures of breeds. The "father of the breed" is, for good reason, Mr. Antonio Jos� Amaral, who initiated the registration in cooperation with a veterinarian, Mrs. Maria de Fatima Machado Mendes Cabral. They are the ones who are responsible that the Cao de Fila de Sao Miguel is still living as strong and firm shepherd as it was hundreds of years ago.

The Cao de Fila de Sao Miguels are also firm watch and guarding dogs, whether they are keeping an eye on cattle, persons, the home yard, goods or anything that they regard as their own. While they are guarding, it is useless for any stranger to approach them. Just their strong appearance and severe glance are enough to drive away an eventual intruder. Under the menace of a real danger they defend with a fiery zeal and till the very end what they think is their own. These dogs have a good sense of relativity, they know well how to discern a real danger from a normal situation and they are capable of acting in an instant, guided by their strong instincts.

There are very few cattle dogs in which these two working characteristics -- both herding and guarding -- are combined in such a close-knit and convincing way. It should also be mentioned that due to the strong instinct of a watch and guarding dog, the training must in this sense be very coherent and even severe, when needed. A well-balanced watch and guarding dog knows when to stop guarding, when the master gives an order. Even the watch and guarding dogs should accept a stranger accepted by the master, provided that the ranking order between the master and the dog is clear. To those who buy our puppies, we will give instructions of all that is related to the watching and guarding characteristic; they must be made clear to an Cao de Fila de Sao Miguel puppy, because this is a primitive breed with strong instincts.

Males weigh about 75-80 pounds. The females weigh about 65-70 pounds. Their color is usually a mixture of black and brown with a white chest. They are very muscular. They are good with children as well as other dogs.

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