Nak, I don't care for type. Only ability. [quote=natimastino]Lee, now we are getting somewhere! My suspicions were absolutley correct! I knew without a shadow of a doubt you did not have real Mastino in front of you. If it looks like a Corso..IT IS! I too have seen the stumped and brittle teeth you were working with and its classical backyard neo breeding symptons. Im sure this guy was passing them off as 'working' Neo's LMAO!! Just plain bad genetics and just another person with absolutley zero knowledge of a foreign breed. You in reality compared a badly bred Cane Corso/bandogge with OEM and I dont doubt at all the OEM was a better performer overall.[/quote] Natimastino, WOW...you are fast on the computer. I went back and edited my phrasing on that right after I posted it because I was trying to basically paint the idea the Neapolitans we typically took more seriously in testing by looking at the hardest were the ones that were less "typey" and not so overdone...and while attempting to paint that picture I typed the CC comment. Then after submitting it, I thought...well that really isn't right...as it wasn't that they were CC...they just simply weren't "typey" overdone Neapolitans. This was because the ones that were overdone...were basically handicapped and not able physically. The ones we tested were better specimens physically than the extreme typiness ones, but they really were not CC/bandogge dogs. Perhaps a few, but very few. The majority truely were pure Neapolitans. I am certain of it. Some good, some not so good. Some well bred, some not so well bred. Some CC crosses perhaps, but not all of them. By the time I made my edit...and what do you know. You already replied. LOL. Oh well. I tried. After viewing your post, I considered going back to put it back the way it is written in your reply...but na...I will leave it as is as the way it is now is really a better discription of what I was trying to say. (For the record, I also want to state that Natimastio did NOT change my words...my original post was exactly as she quoted me). It really just comes down to this. We did test Neapolitans. Several. Not hundreds, but dozens. I have seen potential, but I have found good EM to offer more for my needs. I am however always willing to work some more Neapolitans and IF you know of someone producing quality examples...by all means let me know. I can be opinionated, but I am also open minded. I may be hard to convence by words on a messageboard...but show me the dogs working...and I will accept it.