California Cane Corso is a Cane Corso Italiano (Italian Mastiff) dog
breeder and CCAA (formerly known as the ICCF) Breeders Guild Member
located in Northern California. We are one of only seven Cane Corso
breeders that belong to this reputable organization.
If you are looking for a
Cane Corso Italiano (Italian Mastiff)
puppy for sale, we
have a young adult female
(Carmela) in the fulvo (fawn) color
available.
Romeo del Morgan, our
formentino (blue fawn) stud dog is in the picture above. Although we are a Cane
Corso breeder, our dogs live inside our home (instead of a
kennel) and enjoy being our constant companions!
If you would like more information about the
Cane Corso Italiano (Italian Mastiff), we invite you to visit our links
page.
Carmela is available, a young adult fawn female from
Litter C. If you are interested in her, we invite you to fill out our
online puppy application.
Many of you have inquired about our next litter
and when it is planned for. However, with the pending completion of our new home
and other priorities that need our attention, we do not have any breeding plans
at this time.
We would like to announce a huge congratulations
to Roman and Eva, owners of Apollo and Amy, on their tremendous accomplishments
in the show ring!
2007 NEWS
Out of the 21 puppies we had, we have one fawn
young adult female available: Carmela. She is a
petite bundle of endless amusement, very attentive to humans, housebroken and crate trained.
She loves to follow us around and is like a little shadow! Carmela is from
Litter C.
As a last-minute decision, we decided to enter
Romeo in the first 2 shows at the Rarities Gold Miner Classic on April 21st in
Sacramento, California. We invited a few of our local puppy owners and were very
excited to see five of our puppies again (Carina, Vulcan, Cinzia, Nico and Lola)!
Romeo took a Best of Breed, Group 1 and Reserve
Best in Show. Vulcan participated in two shows and Cinzia was 5x
WB, 2x BOW, 5x BOS, 2x Best Jr. Puppy in Group and a Best in Show Jr. Puppy!
Nicoletta's brother Enzo took 3x BOB, 2x Group 1, a Reserve Best in Show and a
Best In Show!
Congratulations to Apollo, who took a Best in Show
Rare Breed Puppy at the IABCA Show in Antioch, California on September 23rd!
Plus another congratulations to Apollo and Amy for winning Reserve Best in Show
Brace at the IABCA Show in Enumclaw, Washington on October 20-21!
2006
NEWS
In February, we joined the CCAA Breeders' Guild,
the only Cane Corso breeder's organization in the world that sets standards for its
members. We're proud to be awarded 8 out of 11 stars! We screen all potential
Cane Corso puppy buyers to ensure that there is a good three-way match, as we intend to
remain in close contact with our selected "extended family" throughout the
lifetime of our puppies. We also value our relationships with Cane Corso puppy
buyers and their involvement in the Cane Corso puppy's life from day one, and we were
the first Cane Corso breeder to have a PuppyCam installed in our home's
Cane Corso puppy nursery.
Litter B (Romeo
x Giulietta) was born on Wednesday, July 26th. This is her
second litter and she had 12 Cane Corso puppies - 10 females, 2
males.
Litter C (Romeo
x Nicoletta) was born on Friday, July 28th and Saturday, July 29th.
This is her first litter and she had 9 Cane Corso puppies - 5 males,
4 females.
On September 9-10th, we welcomed future California
Cane Corso Puppy Owners to visit and meet all of our dogs (which include the
parents of both litters and two offspring from our Litter A) and cuddle with all
of the babies! It was a wonderful weekend and we had visitors of all ages from
all over California, Ohio, Hawaii (Leilani's parents).
2005 NEWS
Have you been wondering why it seems like we have
"disappeared" from the Cane Corso Italiano world all of a sudden after the 2004 National
Specialty? Well, we have been pretty busy not only moving from Brentwood to
Lincoln this year, but we have also been looking at parcels of land for the
future site of our first custom home! We finally ended up buying a 20-acre
vineyard in the beautiful Livermore Valley Wine Country,
about 45 miles SE of San Francisco. We have 15 acres of Chardonnay grapes and a
2-acre homesite with a creek that runs along one side. If all goes well, we hope
to move in by the end of 2008!
2004 NEWS
FCI Judge Dr. Rafael Escar Tabueña,
DVM (Spain), Breeder Morgan
Ivaldi (Italy), Owners Bob & Leilani Souza and Romeo, the BOS winner at the
ICCF National Specialty with 63 entries, including 2 Italian champions
among 12 champion males.
Congratulations to Romeo, the 2004 ICCF National
Specialty BOS Winner under Spanish FCI Judge Dr. Rafael Escar Tabueña, DVM, and
to my hero Bob, who stepped in to handle him at the last minute after
taking a 6-month break from handling!
Romeo also earned his TT title under ATTS Chief
Judge Carl Herkstroeter that weekend; I (Leilani) was so proud to be his handler
and especially honored to receive such an excellent review from a highly
esteemed judge!
Multi BIS Gr. Int. Ch.
Romeo del Morgan, CGC, TDI, TT, FBCA-TT (Exc) won his 6th Best In Show
under Judges Bill Edwards and David Markus at the IABCA Anaheim Hills Show
in California on November 21, 2004...only 3 weeks after his 3rd birthday!
Romeo was the #1 Rarities Cane Corso in 2004 (#2 Working Dog and #4
All-Breed), which is an amazing accomplishment in only five show
weekends! Bob and I are so proud of Romeo's achievements and success this
year, especially considering we had only started campaigning him the summer
of 2004!
California's
Cyrano is now a
Multi BIS Puppy with 5 Best In Show Puppy wins, 2 Reserve Best In Show
Puppy wins, 8 Group 1's, a Group 2 and a Group 3. He also earned his ICCF
Championship at 10 months of age! We are extremely proud of Cyrano's
success, pleased with his development and we look forward to
continuing his promising show career!
California's Cyrano winning his
first All-Breed BIS Puppy at twelve weeks of age, competing against AKC and rare
breed dogs up to eighteen months of age.
Since February 25, 2002:
Page last updated:
April 21, 2008
Bob & Leilani Souza,
2420 Sand Creek Road #C1-123, Brentwood, CA
94513 - (925) 513-3400
