it seems this thread is dead before it has really started as you have already made up your mind as to waht the dogo is and isn't.
1.i've never been knocked down by a dogo, everyone that ia hve been around leads great. when i have been around dogos they have been used as lead in catchdogs so they aren't "running around playing".
2.i've only been around one dogo that flat out wouldn't catch every other dogo i've been around hears a bay and hauls a** to the bay and is caught solid when we get there.
3.i've seen two blue eyed dogos(both could hear fine and were great catchdogs) and none of the other ones have had any health problems.
4.they are slow maturing, but the rule of thumb with a lot of catahoula's is they aren't truly ready for the woods until over a year. nothing wrong with a slow maturing dog.
5.there is nothing you or i can do to bring teh cost down. so that is a moot point.
6.my dogo runs about 75lbs more or less, probally less. the dogos i have been around area touch smaller tahn other peoples but they catch just as good and probally with more speed adn agility.
i there is enough breeds already in the dogo that they don't need any other breeds in them. i would say that because teh breed is relatively new that there aren't enough lines to outcross and give teh dogs good hybrid vigor. the more tehy are linebred and inbred then OUTCROSSED to other lines teh stronger teh breed will get.
the problem is that takes some dedicated people that are willing to cull hard and be willing to go to other people to strengthen their line by going with compltely unrelated dogs. this will be a long time coming becasue this takeds peple willing to farm out dogs and be willing to stud for free and swap gyps for free. why do you thik the pit bull is such a stout line of dogs? because the old timers had 5-6 friends that they shared dogs with. they all culled hard adn they made breedings for free becasue tehy were trying to establish great dogs. they swapped gyps for free adn they swapped pups for free. when teh dogo breed does this i truly believe they will see their breed get stronger. most of your dogo breeders want big money for their pups because they made an investment so they have to get their money back. i don't knock this, i totally understand this point of view. i believe that if several dogo breeders were to get together and get several different strains of dogos and then work with each other to cull, test and breed their different strains i bet you will see a more uniform and stronger breed genetically.
However, just like most hunters of other breeds, no one agrees on what to look for in a hunting dog. A family developed those dogs with the same goals in mind. Most people dont even breed for the traits the Martinez family selected for. These dogs are supposed to have nose and hunt as well. Add in the amount of money dogos go for without having to have those qualities I just dont see any cooperative efforts happening. Too much for a few isolated dedicated breeders who hunt to fix b/c people who get any dogos from those folks are going to take those dogs and breed it to a cat, pit or Ab or whatever to get what they want out of it. So the pure dogos dont get reproduced and passed along to maintain their traits as a breed. That's my honest opinion.
