Cane Corso Project

Food for thought. Modern wolves do not carry the aᵗ allele needed to create tan points in dogs. So if we leap to the idea that aᵗ is some ancient or "traditional" coat color of the Cane Corso, that would mean it came from ancient wolves. Ancient wolves existed 20,000 - 40,000 years ago. I'm often accused of being stuck in the breed's past but it's ironically usually by the same folks who say the Cane Corso is a modern recreation and have little respect for the actual breed standard.

Modern wolves do not have aᵗ. Yes I repeated myself.
So it would stand to reason either modern dogs have links to ancient wolves that even modern wolves don't have or the aᵗ is a mutation. How else could it be explained?

It is believed that modern dogs were able to retain some things from ancient wolves as they were not exposed to the same genetic drift as wolves. Yet we find no evidence of black and tan dogs amongst 20-40,000 year old humans. How could we? The oldest dog found is generally accepted to be 14,000 years old. Yet we are to believe that alleles made it to an ex Rottweiler breeders backyard completely unscathed, honestly and into his Cane Corso bloodline?

The unmistakable silhouette of a Cane Corso belongs to no other breed.