Meet Prince
Meet PRINCE
Prince is a brown “Bracco Italiano” who we imported from Italy. The American Kennel Club (AKC) classifies Prince as a white and chestnut / roan.
We set out to find a future stud dog to replace King who is sire of four of our breeding females (Beatrice, Gwenivere, Serena and Fraya). We needed another stud dog to breed to the King and Dutchess’ daughters.
We had a list of what we were looking for in this new stud dog 1.) Proven healthy pedigrees 2.) Bigger boned 3.) More husky than lean. 4). Chestnut and white/ roan 5). Hunting and show lines.
Once Prince was two years old, we started his testing to make sure he was a healthy dog to breed. Prince passed his hips, elbows and DNA genetic panel and was cleared of all disease markers.
Why is Prince’s color important and on the list of things we were looking for in a new stud dog, let me explain. King and Dutchess are both orange and white / roan so all the puppies they had together were orange and white. Our plan was to breed this new chestnut stud dog to all our orange and white girls and get both colors of puppies in the litter.
It became very apparent once Prince sired two litters with the King and Dutchess daughters that Prince is only capable of throwing the chestnut color to his puppies. Prince is homozygous for the chestnut gene. As I looked back over Prince’s genetic testing results which is like 40 pages long, I missed the color markers. I did the DNA testing as soon as we got Prince at sixteen weeks old. If I would have picked up on Prince being homozygous for the chestnut/brown gene at sixteen weeks old I most likely would have looked for another future stud dog. I am so happy I missed the color thing and I will phrase it just like that as of no importance “the color thing”. You know what they say “Never throw the baby out with the bath water’. Just in case you don’t know what that means. “Never throw the baby out with the bathwater” is an idiomatic expression for an avoidable error in which one eliminates something good or of value while trying to get rid of something unwanted. A slightly different explanation suggests this flexible catchphrase has to do with discarding the essential while retaining the superfluous because of excessive zeal. In hind sight I am sure glad I missed that color thing and moved along with Prince.
I do not think we can improve on Prince as he is the perfect dog. I know you are saying “OH come on you are only saying that because he is your dog”. Not true, I have a other dogs which I can say plenty of negatives about…. don’t get me going on some of my other dogs. Prince is the perfect dog; he never does anything wrong. He never soils in the house, never chews anything up, doesn’t get under your feet. He is crate trained but never needs to be crated. Doesn’t beg, tells you when he needs to go out, in and out, quick and easy. If you forget about him and leave him out, he will back a couple times “hey dummy let me in”. Not a barker, only barks when necessary. Doesn’t mind a bath, no struggle involved. Doesn’t mind his nails trimmed or his ears cleaned. Loves the car, he sits or lays down in the back seat. I can leave him in the car and no one even knows he is there; he doesn’t bark at anything or anyone passing by. Very affectionate and loving. Heals and walks on a leash, never pulls. My grandkids can walk this dog. Going to the vet is an enjoyable outing with Prince. Prince has perfect recall and stays in fairly close as some Bracci do not! I just don’t know what else I can say as I have not one negative thing to say about this Fantastic Dog. Not all Bracci Itallini are like Prince but it sure is nice to know Prince is stamping his calm nature onto his puppies.
Prince generally weighs in the upper 70’s plus or minus 5lbs.
Prince
DOB 6/18/22
