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UKC Guardian · FCI standard 353
Cimarron Uruguayo.
FCI 353: UTILIZATION 'Excellent for herding, big game hunting and guard'; Group 2, Section 2.1 Molossoid, Dogue type; without working trial. History: origin uncertain, descended from dogs brought by Spanish and Portuguese conquerors; left in the country, they crossed among themselves and natural selection kept the fitter, stronger and more clever; inhabitants domesticated them and used them as guards of their estates and as herding dogs with cattle. UKC: dogs left behind bred amongst themselves, only the fittest survived; people domesticated them 'for use as guard, herding and big game hunting dogs'; recognized by UKC in 2006. Canine Chronicle: a cattle driver and guard dog, a hunting dog on big game, especially wild boar, and a companion dog. Wikipedia: mainly descends from the Alano Espanol and European dogs released or abandoned; in the eighteenth century the feral dogs were hunted with bounties; ranchers in the highlands of Cerro Largo captured and tamed them as guard dogs; sometimes used for guarding, hunting, sports, rescue and herding in Uruguay; mascot of the Uruguayan National Army; recognised by FCI provisionally in 2006 and definitively in 2017..
Breed sets the odds. The parents set the dog. Every number here shows its source, its spread and how sure we are. Nothing on this page is a prediction about one dog.
The body
What the breed is built like. Registry standards give an ideal, not a range.
Height at the shoulder
Span covers UKC and FCI including tolerances. Ideal printed as a range, center blank.
Weight
Canine Chronicle's breed-wide range sits inside the standards' spread for females.
Coat
Heat tolerance
Derived from a short dense coat with undercoat (4). No measured data.
The dog at home
What the breed asks of a day. The first thing most homes get wrong.
Exercise need
No source prints an exercise duration; no exercise_need_min row.
The work
What it was built to do in the field, and what a test or trial asks of it.
Role
Origin is stated as uncertain by FCI and UKC; Wikipedia's Alano Espanol line is editorial.
Primary game
Wild boar is named by Canine Chronicle alone.
Also used on
What to ask a breeder for
The health clearances the breed’s own club and registry name. Reference only: what to ask for, never a statement about any dog’s health.
- UruguayHip and elbow dysplasia testing before breedingnot named · Wikipedia, Cimarrón Uruguayo
How to read this page
Every value carries a label. Measured means peer-reviewed data on many dogs. Studied means peer-reviewed, smaller or indirect. Breed club means a club or registry states it. Editorial means expert opinion with no measurement behind it. Where two good sources disagree, both are shown and neither is averaged.
Published when the entry rests on the best information available from no fewer than three independent sources, checked by a second pass that did not write it. 3 sources on this page. Found something wrong? Tell us and the correction is logged with its date.
- Also called
- Cimarron, Uruguayan Cimarron, Maroon Dog, Cerro Largo Dog
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