Chuck is right, they are as easy to take car of as any other dog it is the responsibility factor of keeping the dog safe and keeping others safe around your dog.
Absolutely do your own research. There are some CAFIB breedings that I would not recommend as well and I am sure you could get good dogs from non CAFIB stock. I only recommend CAFIB types because of the strict breeding practices and evaluation process to ensure pure bred stock which is something that non CAFIB (CBKC) does not do in their organizations on a regular basis.
The part that the CBKC's (which was not part of FCI at that time) standard being older than CAFIB is NOT true. The CBKC standard changes to fit the dogs currently being bred from time to time and if I'm not mistaken it was changed again somewhere in the 1990s. PSC (Paulo Santos Cruz) was commissioned to write the standard for them when he himself said that he did not have sufficient knowledge about the breed. PSC then became infatuated with the breed, did more research and found that the farm dogs that he found all over the south of Brazil showed the consistency that makes a breed a breed and He is the one that formed the standard of CAFIB as well as help formed the organization. PSC brought this info to CBKC and told them that the first standard he wrote was incorrect and that it needed to be changed... the big $ breeders threatened to form their own organization and they declined to change the standard. After years have went by, instaead of the dogs of CBKC conforming to the standard they had in place they went in different directions while CAFIB dogs stayed uniformed. Eventually the dogs being produced were so far off the standard that instead of CBKC disqualifying those dogs they again fell to the pressure of the big $ kennels and changed the standard to fit what the dogs were looking like at that time.
Unfortunately CAFIB does not advertise the way that non CAFIB organizations do so if you want information they leave it up to you to find it. This is the reason why so many start off with non CAFIB dogs and when they finally get around to doing deep research they are faced with 2 choices... admit they were wrong the first time and start all over again or continue perpetrating the fraud.
In this case you can clearly see that this dog is no fila, maybe not even part fila however as knowledgeable as this breeder claims to be and as good as other have said they are they were unable to see the obvious and bred this dog over and over and over. Now, lets just say that they didnt know better when this dog was being bred... they obviously know now that this dog is no fila which means every single offspring produced by this dog should be culled from any breeding program as it is obviously not a true pure bred fila, right? well they have never attempted to cleanse this bloodline out so they keep perpetrating the fraud by allowing it to continue.
http://www.filadog.com/html docs/foundation/foundation_pg_24.htm
Now on the flip side I have seen quite a few eshabeta dogs and none were quite as bad as this one and more than a few showed very good ojeriza. It is unfortunate that ojeriza itself does not equal pure bred fila. CAFIB is an organization that deals with the preservation of the breed and nothing else. The dog must have ALL the aspects of the breed not just one or 2.
I was honestly expecting more people to tell me that because I have never owned a Fila, that they "weren't the dog for me" and I was happily surprised by the support that I am recieving. I have already been told by one person that I am more than welcome to come and see thier dogs. How great is that?
