CBKC-FCI * 3 to 4% in the register, in Brazil

Centuries XIX and XX

"The black is a very important color, perhaps the most important"
Pierre Auguste Renoir, France ( 1841 - 1919 )



COLUMELA, Roman authority in Agriculture during the first century D.C. described how should be a guardian dog: "the dog must be selected by it corpulency ...
must have an uniform color, preferable of black color, to be used as a dog to protect the propriety, ... this dog, if the thief comes during the day light it has the
appearance more frightening, if it's black ... ".

COMMENTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS taken from the "GREAT BOOK OF FILA BRASILEIRO", international edition in English and second edition in
Portuguese, from
PROCOPIO DO VALLE et al.


Dr. Procopio do Valle
P.O. Box 12.210
CEP 22022-970
Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Telephone: 021-21-5111047
e.mail : jprvlota@uol.com.br

Colaboration: Adriana Cury and Maria Carlota Procópio Valle