These is the copy of the email passing by the Owner of the best line of Fila from brazil.Medium 45kg , fine dogs, with high ojeriza level.Old strain back to 70's. My best regards and I hope that I might also have answered the questions contained between the lines of your email. Olegário SÃO JOSÉ DA LAPA KENNEL FILA BRASILEIRO" ....As you can see Antares fits perfect well the Fila Brasileiro official standard of the breed, including the very sharp and protective temperament. Remember the 9 Th Commandment : "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor". This is the reason I did not point out my finger at any possible mixers, as the author wants me to do, as written in page 300 of her book. If there were mixers in S. Paulo and Rio, what about the mixers from Minas Gerais? Fila breeders in Minas Gerais were the very first ones to mix Filas with hound dogs, Boxers and Great Danes, but Cafib people insist in accusing only breeders from S. Paulo and Rio. There has never been an iron curtain separating one state from another, neither fences around the ranches in Brazil. The Filas would cross freely with other breeds that existed in the ranches, and even with wild dogs. This shows how strong the basic characteristics of the Fila Brasileiro are. The breed survived constant crossings during 300 or 400 years. I have been selecting the so called "pure and authentic Filas", as the author likes to say, for over 24 consecutive years, in accordance with the official standard of the breed, nevertheless I would not be surprised if in some litter a puppy shows up with a bulldog tail or with an undershot bite. These may be the ancestors genes popping out (atavism), just like the gene B for the black color. I can observe the black color in pedigrees, going back to l946, with initial registrations from Filas brought from Minas Gerais. The black list Mrs. van Damme published, the same one from l979, is a joke. It lists Nubia de Samor, an excellent Fila in all senses. Her pedigree shows that she is half Samor and half Parnapuan, coming directly from Uri and Ela de Parnapuan. My first stud was the incredible most condecorated Fila of his time: Gr.Intl.Ch., South Am. Ch., National Ranking Winner in 1980, Orixa do Kirongozi. Dr. Paulo Santos Cruz himself judged him for three times and for three times gave him the Best of Breed. Some time later he called him a "mongrel".... I judged Orixa myself one time and I also gave him the Best of Breed. He had no faults, plus a terrific movement and a sharp temperament, but very well controlled. Nevertheless some blind cafibians placed him in that destructive black list. No one cares about the 9th. commandment. Who is going to believe in cafibians after that? It is right to preserve the breed but not to drag to gaz chambers excellent Filas based on suppositions. Fanatics never prevailed and Cafib is in coma in Brazil. When Mrs. van Damme states in page l47 that "fuera del standard del fila puro están" and gives a long list, in which are included dogs like Cacibe dos Pampas (Trinity) and Araribóia, who actually are the ancestors of Boa Sorte dogs, she is spiting on her own plate. I cannot imagine why she uses dogs who got only two generations in their pedigrees. How can she accuse anyone if some of her dogs got only a Secondary Registration which unfortunately is allowed by CBKC ? This cafibian paranoia about dark brindles and black Filas is based on false information. They always existed in Minas Gerais and other states of Brazil. In accordance with Enio Monte and Prof. do Valle, who got statements from reliable breeders, in the 50'’s there was a ranch in Minas Gerais called Morro Grande, located in Varginha, owned by Coronel Antonio Mariano dos Reis, Besides fawns and brindles, Mr. Reis also has a whole line of black Filas. The Reis family, together with José Gomes de Oliveira, were the greatest Fila breeders during the 40's and 50's in Minas Gerais. Renato Ribeiro Reis started to breed Filas in l948. He used to tell that the Fila that most impressed him was Nero, a black Fila from Morro Grande ranch. Still in the book of Prof. Procópio do Valle and Mr. Enio Monte, we read: José Gomes de Oliveira, from Varginha, MG, was the breeder that furnish the greatest quantity of Filas to São Paulo and Belo Horizonte. His dogs were yellow and brindles, were large, with have heavy heads, lots of dewlaps and excellent temperament, though some of them showed a lot of influence of Great Danes. José Rezende Paiva was the breeder that preserved the last bloodlines of Reis and José Gomes de Oliveira’s Filas.