Canil Boiadeiro do Jatobá
Liter “A” Jan.30th 07
Owner/breeder: Ligia Morris
Hobby Stock-dog handler/trainer
Names:
Aritana Boiadeiro do Jatobá (male)
Aruana Boiadeiro do Jatobá
(female)
Abaré Boiadeiro do Jatobá
(female)
Birthday: January 30th
Status: De-wormed and up-to-date on vaccines
Hometown: Sto. Antonio do Amparo, Minas Gerais - Brazil
Pedigrees: Available upon request.
DNA: tests performed - results available
Training Progress all dogs:
Crate Trained
Basic Obedience
Sats intro
herding instinct test
Retrieve ball/stick
Driving herd into pasture
Retrieving and penning herd
for information
Email:
Instant Messaging:
ligiamorris@mac.com (ichat)
Recommended reading
Cão Fila Brasileiro-
Preservação do Original
by Antônio Carlos Linhares Borges
Filas and Fazendas
by Ines Van Damme
Animals in Translation
by Temple Grandin
Dogs: A Startling New Understanding of Canine Origin, Behvior and Evolution
by Drs. Ray and Lorna Coppinger
Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home
And Other Unexplained Powers of Animals: An Investigation
By Rupert Sheldrake
And Other Unexplained Powers of Animals: An Investigation
By Rupert Sheldrake
A Cabeçudo-Boiadeiro Restoration Project
The “Canil Boiadeiro do Jatobá” is part of a 70 acre organic Dairy farm, in the process of international certification, located in the south of Minas Gerais, Brazil. This part of the country is known as the birthplace of the Cabeçudo-Boiadeiro - the “big-headed cow-dog” of Minas Gerais. We’re currently incorporating beef-cattle farming to our activities.
Since arriving from the United States in 2006, our Cabeçudo stock-dogs have been managing our livestock. They herd, gather, flush, pen, drive and protect our livestock. With daily practice, they get increasingly better at their skill. Although they are also excellent estate guardians, they are socialized in order to accept the workers that are part of the daily make-up of a farm. Two have obtained basic obedience training, as well as stock-dog training in the United States.
Although hunting is outlawed in Brazil, these dogs are well equipped to perform the task, and would be excellent scent tracking dogs in countries where hunting is permitted. This breed is not fit for the urban setting, one of the factors which has contributed to its near extinction. We are founding members of the non-for profit Clube dos Preservadores do Cão Cabeçudo Boiadeiro Mineiro - CPCBMG.
Our goal for the Canil is to restore the Cabeçudo- Boiadeiro das Minas Gerais to its original and most important functions. We intend to make very few carefully selected matings to obtain good farm dogs that conserve the original functional type of the breed and optimal work instinct.
Our female Gameleira Gitana dos Tabayara, comes from a working-dog lineage and has a well respected pedigree. Before arriving in Brazil, she participated in a herding trial accredited by the USBCHA where she obtained a 3rd placement. She is a very attentive and kind mother to her puppies and breast fed until they were 63 days old. All dogs, puppies and humans coexist inside the 200 year old farm house as well as its surrounding areas, waterfalls, forests and ponds. All her puppies have demonstrated genetic predisposition to herding and hunting.
