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Dogo Cubano


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Dogo Cubano or Cuban Mastiff or Cuban Dogo or Cuban Dogge is an extinct breed of dog. It was a type of Bull Mastiff bred in Cuba. This breed of dog was used for dog fighting. This breed of dog was introduced in Cuba to capture runaway slaves (cimarrones). After the abolition of slavery it became too expensive to feed and the breed ceased to exist with time.

M. B. Wynn wrote in his 1886 book that he had inspected some of the most noted Cuban Bull-Mastiffs imported to England. He further wrote; "Col. H. Smith in Naturalists Libary, states that he was informed in the West Indies by some cattle dealers, who cultivated the breed, that the Cuban Mastiff was introduced from England about 1560, and that they were first kept at a monastry in the ancient capital of St. Jago, according to accounts recieved from a priest by the cattle dealers who informed Col. H. Smith." Wynn also wrote an description of the dog in his book; "Larger than our common Bulldog and smaller than the Mastiff, stout in proportion, muzzle short, broad, and abruptly truncate, with somewhat of an upward curve, lips pendulous, ears partly so".

In the south of USA they kept Molosser dogs to guard the plantation slaves who where also called Cuban dogs. If these dogs where called so because they where imported from Cuba or because they where used to guard, and hunt down runaway slaves, is uncertain. In the book "The Illustrated Dog" by Tom Howard there is a wonderful painting by Richard Andsell (1815-1885), called "Hunted Slaves", which show these Cuban dogs.

There is hard to get any information on the state of the Cuban dogs today but it looks like the dogs described by Mr. Wynn in the late 1800's, and the dogs in the illustration at the top at this page, no longer exists. When guard dogs for the slave plantations, and for personal safety, no longer where needed these dogs vanished in their pure state. Crossed with all kind of other breeds, in the 1900's especially Dogo Argentinos, and in the later years the Pit Bull, we can assume that no pure lines of the old Dogo Cubano still exists. Sadly, no steps have ever been taken in Cuba to preserve the old breed.

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