Italian Mastweiler 

To know your Italian Mastweiler’s personality and background, you will need to look at the parent breeds’ backgrounds. The Italian Mastiff is also known as the Cane Corso and descends from Roman Molassian war dogs such as the Neapolitan Mastiff. They were originally used as war dogs but after the Roman Empire fell, they were used around the farm as a guard and for hunting game such as wild boar and bear. The breed almost became extinct after World War II. By the 1970s, there were only a few Italian Mastiffs left in Italy and a breeding program was started in 1974 by Dr. Paolo Breber and Giovanni Bonnetti. In the 1990s, the Italian Mastiff got recognition from the International Federation of Kennel Clubs but then their name was changed to Cane Corso. The International Cane Corso Federation was started in America in 1993 and they were accepted by the American Kennel Club in 2010. The Rottweiler has been around since the first century and was bred in Germany from the German Shepherd, Roman Drover Dog, and several different kinds of Mastiffs. It is thought that Roman Soldiers of the 11th Legion of the Roman Empire developed the Rottweiler breed in Wurttemberg, Germany to guard their camps and herd and protect their cattle. Their name came from the town of Rottweil, which was a town in Germany that had many of these dogs. They were kept busy at all times, pulling carts and herding cattle during the day and guarding the camps at night. In the 1800s, the breed began to be less useful because cattle driving was outlawed but butchers started using them to pull carts full of meat and they were nicknamed the Rottweil Butcher Dog or Rottweiler Metzgerhund. They were soon found to be excellent police dogs and were even used as guards during World War I. In 1931, the American Kennel Club noticed and accepted the Rottweiler, where it is still the 8th most well-liked breed in the United States.