Large, powerful, all-white mastiff-type dog with massive head and athletic build, originally developed for big-game hunting with exceptional courage and strength
Developed in Argentina in the 1920s by Dr. Antonio Nores Martinez who systematically crossed the now-extinct Cordoba Fighting Dog with Great Dane, Boxer, Bull Terrier, and Pointer to create a versatile big-game hunter for wild boar and puma
Males typically weigh 40-45 kg and stand 61-67 cm at the shoulder; females 40-43 kg and 61-65 cm.
“It should be silent, never barking on the trail, with a keen nose and excellent flair, vent, agile, strong, robust and especially brave. Should never be aggressive toward humans, a feature that will be severely observed. It must give you love without conditions or reservations”
Quoted from FCI standard n°292. It describes the breed the registry recognises, not any individual animal.
Breed reference from The Dog API.
Nobody has written this side yet. It is a judgement rather than data, so it waits for a person — not for a missing source.
Drawn from sources rather than written as an opinion — cited health research, the registry’s own standard, and peer-reviewed longevity. FCI breed standard. One breeder’s animals can differ from any of it, and an empty column means we hold nothing for that side rather than that there is nothing to say.
FCI standard · Dogo Argentino
As the FCI standard sets it out. Every line below is the standard’s own wording, tagged preferred.
Uniform, short, smooth, with an average length of 1.5 to 2 cm.
Density and thickness vary according to climate
Preferred, permissible, undesirable and disqualifying are FCI’s own words about the breed. They describe what the standard asks for — not an assessment of any individual dog, and not ours.
Base colour
Entirely white
Shortened from FCI standard n°292 — each label is the standard’s own wording with the verdict lifted into the tag beside it. Read the full clause at source.
Quoted from FCI standard n°292. It describes the breed the registry recognises, not any individual animal.
What a judge marks the Dogo Argentino down for, and what puts one out of the ring, in the registry’s own words. This describes the breed standard — it is not a checklist for the animal in front of you, and a pet with a disqualifying fault is an unshowable dog rather than an unhealthy one.
Marked heavily against a specimen in the ring.
Puts an animal out of the ring altogether.
Breed-level information from The Dog API. It describes the Dogo Argentino in general; any individual animal can differ.
No breed-specific health panel has been written up for the Dogo Argentino on this platform yet. That is a gap in our records, not a clean bill of health — ask the breeder which hereditary conditions their lines are tested for, and ask to see the results for both parents, dated and from a named laboratory.
This is where Dogo Argentino owners’ own photographs will go, from the pet profiles they keep here. Nobody has added one to a public page yet.
A photograph in a pet profile stays private to its owner. We will not put one here unless they ask us to.
No Dogo Argentino breeder has a record on this platform yet, so there is nothing to list. That is a gap in our coverage, not a fact about the breed.
