Thought this could be interesting to share. A great interview of a famous american Bracco Italiano dog breeder who helped introducing this dog breed in the US. They explain how they imported their first Bracchi Italiani from Europe!
They also do not want an american version of the bracco italiano!How did you choose your founding dogs when you started breeding Bracchi Italiani?
Have to admit, we didn’t have much choice, since we were relying on the Netherland kennel to make our decisions for us. We got a lovely brown male (Dino) from them, and they got an orange/white female (Alba) from a breeder they knew in Italy. We trusted our friends to get us good dogs – and we’ve moved up from there. It was important to have a brown and an orange, since these colors can be bred. Two browns cannot be bred (possibility of bad recessive genetic issues) and it’s O.K. to breed two oranges. This gave us more flexibility if we ever found another Bracco in the US to breed to.
First, although we started selling a puppy to anyone, we decided about 3 years in that we would only place our pups in hunting families, which is different from most all other breeders in the US. We feel very strongly that we need to continue what the Italians have done so well – and we do not want to create a “Bracco Americano”, as has been accomplished with so many breeds in the U.S.
