Angie: The Cane Corso's bred,
to fight through pain, and fear.
We're talking about a dog that is more like a body guard.
it's one of the oldest breeds in history.
It's made for the war,
Hanna is an AKC champion,
and national and international champion.
She is five generations in my breeding,
and another breeder Karen.
She is hopefully pregnant,
Jessie: Today we'll be ultra sounding her.
Jessie: Hi my name is Jessie,
I'm Angela,
and this is Confidential Kennels.
Angela: If I had to describe Confidential Kennels in three words,
it would be strength, power and intelligence.
Dog breeding goes back approximately three to four generations in my family.
It's in our blood.
I've been breeding Cane Corsos since approximately 2006.
Jessie: I've just been tagging along.
The amount of dogs we have here at the kennel kind of fluctuates,
at any one time there could be as many as
10, 15.
This is Yakare.
He is a national champion
on the international circuit.
The name of this dog is Kapu,
which means forbidden in Hawaiian.
This dog is trained in English, Portuguese, and French.
Xerxes, the god of war,
but he's very sweet, very sweet boy.
this is one of our grand champions,
This dog is named Black out Bella,
she's got to be about 8 years old.
Oscar: My name is Oscar,
and we just started working with Jessie and Angie,
Jessie: So we're going to set up a scenario here with Oscar,
he's going to be our bad guy approaching the house.
So we're going to show how the dog can go from the girls just hanging out,
and bad guy sneaks up, and Bella is going to stand him down.
Angie: Its a mastiff type breed.
What makes them exceptional Cane Corsos is balance.
You need to have a correct head,
the body type, the functionality has to have the ability to work.
it needs a stable mind.
Jessie: Get in there, who's that Bella?
Angie: Good Cane Corso can go sit and play with children,
and five seconds later be told to attack an assailant.
Jessie: Who's that?
Good girl.
Angie: I believe people are scared of Cane Corsos for two reasons.
One would be the intimidation factor.
A type of look to deter people.
And the second reason would be just the lack of knowledge of the breed.
Jessie: Good girl Bella.
Angie: I have been bitten probably,
six to 12 times.
The bites have never been serious and that’s because they've never been intentional.
It's usually my fault.
Oscar: So right now we're going to bring Kapu out.
So we've been working on teaching her communication system.
So the first thing we're going to do with her is work on focus.
Yes is like,
Yes is taking a picture,
of the behaviour she is doing that I like,
and she gets paid for it.
With her for the sport we're going to use French.
[foreign language]
I say good because I don't want her to get off the sit.
Good.
if I want her to get off the sit, I'm going to go, Yes.
And everything is done with a purpose because when it comes to the sport,
they take points for everything.
Angie: Our Cane Corsos usually sell from anywhere
between 2000$ to 5500$
if we sell them as adults,
because they'll have working titles, or they'll have show titles.
then they'll go for 10,000$ maybe more.
you have to understand that we invested a lot of time, money and energy ourselves,
getting those titles.
The biggest accomplishments I have are going to be the International trophies.
The international shows, have up to
150 to 200 Corsos in them.
So I've won top overalls two years in a row.
These dogs are from ancient times when Roman soldiers went to war.
And they brought this dogs to war with them,
so that they would protect them.
So my entire goal,
Is to create this dog that can do
all the things it was originally created for.
they are the perfect match for soldiers,
especially soldiers missing a limb.
Jessie: I like to call the veteran program, re uniting warriors
with warriors.
Lets get me out of here though, let's put her down.
Angie: I'm going to get her laid down,
and then we will ultra sound her to see if she's pregnant.
Today we're going to ultra sound Bobaluu and Hanna,
to see if they're pregnant and how far along and how many puppies we have.
Super excited because Hanna constantly produces champions.
and then what we'll do is check both sides of her uterus.
She's definitely pregnant
we can see right here we have one of the puppies in the sack,
even we can see their little heart beats
we can see them moving.
Dog breeding is definitely a male dominated industry.
Confidential Kennels has a female crew,
when I started I just didn't have a lot of acceptance from the males in the community,
I had to pave my own way. and then accept the girls.
Nobody handed it to me.
I had to go out there with a chip in my shoulder,
and now that I found more acceptance,
its a little bit easier to find girls for my crew.
I want women to feel safe and secure and empowered,
them being a part of preserving the Cane Corso,
and being out in public with it not only makes them feel safe but also,
makes them feel strong.
Mercedes: I love showing the dogs, it is a male dominated sport.
I like it, I mean it makes me feel powerful,
I went a lot in this breed, I don’t need to brag but I do.
They get a little bit of training but they're still wild.
Female speaker: These guys are very big and muscular,
they're big and chunky.
They're huge.
Female speaker: I thought they were really cute.
They were really fluffy.
Female Speaker: I'm a Cane Corso person.
There's only that breed that's it.
Jessie: We've got to get out of here these dogs have to go poop.