{"topic_id":"companion_breed_standard_presa_canario_dog","category":"companion-breed-standard","context":"---\n\ntopic_id: companion_breed_standard_presa_canario_dog\ncategory: companion-breed-standard\ntitle: \"Presa Canario — breed standard (FCI: size, coat, temperament, type)\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"FCI (Fédération Cynologique Internationale) official breed-standard factual data for Presa Canario, extracted verbatim (field values + section outline) from source_file; C1 substring-verified. Pulled 2026-08-02.\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/breed-standard/presa_canario_combined.txt\ndate_parsed: 2026-08-02\ntokens_estimated: 0\nverification:\n  method: paraphrase\n  claims: 9\n  passed: 9\n  date: 2026-08-05\nrecovered: false\npath: companion-breed-standard/companion_breed_standard_presa_canario_dog/01_companion_breed_standard_presa_canario_dog.md\nsource_document: \"FCI (Fédération Cynologique Internationale)\"\ncitation:\n  authority: \"FCI (Fédération Cynologique Internationale)\"\n  title: \"Presa Canario — breed standard (FCI: size, coat, temperament, type)\"\n  url: \"https://www.fci.be\"\n  retrieved: \"2026-08-02\"\n  ref: \"Official breed standards (factual data points + section outline extracted verbatim)\"\n  doc_type: \"official kennel-club breed standards\"\n  needs_review: false\nlicense: paraphrase\ncopyright_note: \"Sources (AKC/FCI breed-standard texts) are not openly licensed; per COPYRIGHT_POLICY §3 every claim is a paraphrased derived fact summary (numbers and proper nouns preserved, sentences rewritten), not a verbatim quotation.\"\nauthority_tier: T1\nauthority_tier_basis: \"T1:kennel-club-breed-standard\"\nauthority_tier_date: 2026-08-05\n---\n\n# Presa Canario — breed standard (FCI: size, coat, temperament, type)\n\n## Claims\n\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* The breed comes from Spain (the Canary Islands) and is a molossoid dog of medium size with a rectilinear profile and black mask.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* FCI assigns it to Group 2 (Pinscher and Schnauzer, Molossoid and Swiss Mountain/Cattle Dogs), Section 2.1 for the Molossoid Mastiff type, without working trial; its use is a guard dog protecting cattle.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Height at the withers is 61–66 cm for males and 57–62 cm for females; weight is 45–57 kg in males and 40–50 kg in females.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* The coat is short, coarse and flat with no undercoat (which may appear on the neck and behind the thighs).\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Colours run through all shades of brindle and fawn up to sand, plus black; white markings on the chest, neck, throat and feet are allowed but kept to a minimum, and the mask is always black.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Temperament is severe and attentive, balanced and very self-confident, with a low deep bark; it guards and herds cattle, is obedient and devoted with the family yet suspicious of strangers, and carries a confident, noble, somewhat distant air.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Faults include a pincer bite, excess wrinkles and a claw (minor); severe faults cover anything harming expression or type such as a greyhound-like build, wrong head proportions, a square profile, a triangular head, a thin or curled tail, saddle or roach back, light eyes, excessive undershot mouth, insufficient mask, butterfly nose, and missing teeth other than P1.\n- *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Disqualifications: aggressive or overly shy dogs, clear physical or behavioural abnormality, a fully depigmented nose, unacceptable or over-20% white markings, an overshot mouth, a croup lower than the withers or sloping topline, blue or mismatched eyes, and a cropped tail.\n","sources":["companion-breed-standard — Presa Canario — breed standard (FCI: size, coat, temperament, type) (retrieved 2026-08-02)"],"source":{"authority":"companion-breed-standard","title":"Presa Canario — breed standard (FCI: size, coat, temperament, type)","url":"https://www.fci.be","retrieved":"2026-08-02","ref":"","doc_type":"official PDF","source_document":"FCI (Fédération Cynologique Internationale)","verification_file":"pdf-raw/breed-standard/presa_canario_combined.txt"},"source_document":"FCI (Fédération Cynologique Internationale)","source_file":"pdf-raw/breed-standard/presa_canario_combined.txt","trust":{"authority_tier":"T1","fidelity":"paraphrase","license":"paraphrase","display_grade":"C"},"tokens_estimated":633,"generated_at":null,"tip":"Use /api/v1/topics to discover more topics. /api/v1/nutrient for precise single-point queries. /api/v1/cross_compare for 2-3 standard comparisons."}