I recently joined Joe on the NWA Cane Corso podcast to talk about one of my favorite subjects in the whole dog world: structure. Not structure as a beauty pageant. The real thing. The kind that decides whether a dog does its job for years or breaks down and pays for it in pain.
That’s the part most people never hear. A dog with heart will run itself into the ground for you whether it’s built right or not, and the dogs don’t ask to be built the way they are. That part is on us. So Joe and I dug into how I actually think about it, and I’ll crack the door open here.
I build a dog the way you build a house. The breed standard is the blueprint, and form follows function for a reason. From there it gets good. Every breed from a Chihuahua to a Great Dane has the exact same number of bones. The front end is your dog’s suspension and the rear is its engine. There’s the one thing the old hound men knew that I’d put above almost everything: no foot, no dog. And the single most important thing I say in the whole conversation has nothing to do with structure at all.
Watch the full conversation with Joe on the NWA Cane Corso podcast. You won’t look at your own dog the same way again.
Want to go deeper? This was just a taste of the full seminar I do with Dr. Marty Greer, Pedigrees to Pups, now a 10-episode on-demand series. Find it and a whole lot more at Pure Dog Talk.
