NEW Grand Champion FABIO!

dal Primo is so proud to announce another Grand Champion!  Fabio owned by Bill and Sandy Whitely achieved his final championship points on Sunday at the Rose City Classic, handled to perfection by his human grand dad Roy Lawton, breeder of Fabio's dam Ruby.  Most of Fabio's GCH points were attained under the capable hands of his owner Bill, but due to injury, Roy stepped up to the plate last weekend and showed young Fabio to this new AKC award!  Way to go guys!  Keep up the great work!

Photos of Fabio, handled by Roy Lawton, Rose City Classic Portland OR

and here are two lovely free stack photos of Fabio from the Euk when he was awarded an Award of Excellence, handled by our own Katie Martin

Visitors from all over!

Matt, Blaine and Morgan arrived at dal Primo on Wednesday Jan 19th!  We are so happy to have them for a visit.  Morgan and Blaine had a blast playing with their family all week!

Morgan is now 13 weeks and weighs 30lbs.  Blaine is now 8.5 months old and weighs 105 lbs and stands at a solid 25 inches at the withers. 

Please enjoy these photos and videos that were taken during their visit!

Then on Saturday we had a visit from Jeff and Amy with Blaine's littermates Chase and Heidi from the 2010 dal Primo/Pureheart breeding of Primo and Brandy, born on May 6th, 2010.

Blaine is dal Primo Magic Moment, Chase is Pureheart Chasin' the Dream and Heidi is Pureheart Heidi You're a Fine Girl (all 8.5 months old)...and Wyatt is CH Cornerstone's Wyatt's Revenge (1.5 years old)

The dogs had a blast playing together, they were joined by Jeff's big boy Wyatt.  It was a real testament to their temperments to see these three boys play together with three bitches in season inside the house!  We were so glad to have them back for the day, enjoy the videos and photos were were able to get while they ripped around the yard!

dal Primo dogs 2008 through Summer of 2010

Here is a video montage of every puppy born at dal Primo from February 2008 through May of 2010.  Some beautiful "then and now" photos of these wonderful dogs and their loving families.  We hope you enjoy the video as much as we enjoyed each and every one of these pups.

A video montage of some of our most beautiful memories

Here is a short video we made, showcasing some wonderful moments for dal Primo and the dogs we have produced.   

New Photos of Mr. Fabulous

Here are some new pics of the Fabulous Mr. Fabio otherwise known as BISS Am/Can/Intl CH dalPrimo's in it to Win with TruGrit (bred by dal Primo and Kathi Moyer)


Fabio will be three years old in February and is the son of our Primo and Ruby.  We are SO proud of Fabio and his owners.  We thank Bill and Sandy for taking the time to take these photos in the scenic wine country of California

We think Fabio is lookin' fine and we are proud to show him off!

dal Primo/Crystal Corner is recognized by the AKC

We are so happy to announce that today we received our packet introducing Crystal Corner as an AKC Breeder of Merit

...and they say it can't be done

and here's the proof it CAN be DONE!


We are so proud to prove that some old dogs still have their "tricks", at nearly age six Primo is still able and willing to breed naturally!  Here are some photos showing the very exciting breeding of Primo to his grand daughter Piper on January 5th 2011.  Puppies are expected around the first of March and we could not be more excited to have gotten this natural breeding greatly increasing our chances of getting a nice sized litter, the next dal Primo generation of Bullmastiffs.

a few minutes after the tie, we have allowed the dogs to position themselves and a box is used (slid under the ribcage) to relieve stress on Piper and to help her contract her muscles to help the sperm travel up to her uterus

a closer view of the "tie"

still in the tie, about 30 minutes in to the total time of 35 min

approx 32 minutes in to the tie

still holding on....

and the tie breaks just shy of 35 minutes...

Primo checks Piper after the tie is completed, you can see his penis is still engorged

and then Primo checks himself, the penis has now retracted

and all is said and done and Piper is pretty proud of herself :)

and....now we wait for the sono in 30 days!!!