First, I can understand your sketicism, as there is at least one breeder in Canada who is breeding questionable dogs. The pictures on their webpage are deliberately vague as was their answer to me regarding the lines of their dogs when I contacted them by e-mail. When I asked further questions I received no reply. There also seems to be someone or someones in Germany who are breeding dogs they refer to as Alanos, which look more like mixes. If you are basing your info on that I can certainly understand your misgivings.

[quote=boomslang]Im not basing my write write write on that pic, am basing it on the pics of the new so called Alanos, They have no conformation....So read, read, read! Enough with that damn pic allready it was an example only![/quote] Really? Well in this thread you posted: http://www.molosserdogs.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=763 [quote=boomslang]

I am not the best source for that info. You can go to www.semencic.com and look under "tawkin dawgs" and then click on the Alano and consume a wealth of knowlege on this. The pics are great.[/quote] Did you ever consider the Semensic might not know what he is talking about in the case of Spanish Alanos or that his pictures are not an accurate representation? He is of Italian ancestory and if you look at Italian websites of great danes, many of them refer to them as Alanos. Here we are talking about Spanish Alanos, a completely different breed. Here is what he said about the photos on his own webpage: “The context of these photographs (ie the location at which they were taken, the time period, and the fact that Dr. Melendez did not know what breed this was when it might have been easy for him to identify these dogs as Great Danes, leads me to believe that these are photographs of the now extinct Spanish "Alano".

Research I have done has suggested to me for years that today's Great Dane is very similar in appearance to the Alano of the past.” So in other words he has no idea of what these dogs are. And this is what you are basing your oppinion on: a guess by Carl Semensic. Here is a picture of an old Spanish Alano in a painting from the 1800s compared to the head of a modern day Alano.  Looks kinda the same. Here are some kennels that Breed Spansih Alanos and other sources of picture of Spanish Alanos. I previously posted as TXalano because I could not log into this account. I am not trying to post as two people. ">[/url]