Mad River Cain Corso Reposted from Yahoo Answers 12/29/14 Urbana, Ohio

Ordinarily, I wouldn’t trouble myself or spend the time to reply to one of Darrell’s friends or customers that he asked to rebut my original report. However, his report, like most things you read online, is not only riddled with inaccuracies but it draws conclusions that the author could not possibly come to on his own.

Let me start with one point; it sounds like “Joseph” the author of the aforementioned rebuttal had a good experience with Mad River Cane Corso. I am very pleased to hear that, especially that he was willing to take care of a health issue beyond the terms of “their” warranty. I might also humbly accept your gratitude that my exposure of their behavior likely is the reason why he did what he did. That is the purpose of the Ripoff Report, it takes companies like Mad River and forces accountability for their business practices. So you’re welcome.

Now let’s talk about dominance in the “Alpha position.” As mentioned in the above paragraph Joseph attempts to psychoanalyze me, my daughter, and my dog, in my home environment with absolutely no interaction with us whatsoever. My friend, you are wasting your talent writing worthless reviews for dog breeders when you should be working for NASA or IBM or even the CIA. Imagine what they would pay to have a person with telekinesis like you who can construct such complicated conclusions sight unseen with nothing more than the ability to read a brief article. Seriously, our government could use such a slick, intelligent guy like you… You got my vote buddy!

Tongue-in-cheek aside, this guy is psychoanalyzing me as a beta personality without meeting me? Again, as humbly as I can state this, I have never been in a room of people and have not been considered the Alpha. I am a hedge fund manager/derivatives trader where type A personalities are the only personalities that exist. After 20 years in my chosen profession, I would say that I do not have a problem with dominance over subordinates (including my dog). What’s distressing is his comment “you know what, too bad, suck it up, deal with it.” That pretty much sums up the attitude that I got from Mad River Cane Corso when I called about the dog. I see birds of a feather really do flock together.

I’m just going to reiterate a few points here, my first interaction with these people led me to believe that they were nothing but a puppy mill and when I got there my concerns were confirmed. We were not allowed to see the dogs or kennel and Darrell was not even present after we drove approximately eight hours to get there. Concerning Joseph and his all-knowing attitude about… well everything, I have owned lots of dogs in my life including a now 200 pound English mastiff and all of the breeders that I have worked with require you contractually to contact them before surrendering a dog or putting it to sleep giving them the opportunity to rescue the dog. Mad River Cane Corso is by far the exception, not the rule. They got our money and basically told me to pound salt, terrible business practices and attitude in my opinion.

I’m not writing this in hopes that “Joseph” will ever read it; I want people who are considering doing business with this breeder to know what happened to me. Maybe, Darrell has changed his ways, and they are now best dog breeders this side of the Mississippi. Maybe all the aggression videos on YouTube from this breeder is not an indication of what they breed their dogs for but just a misunderstanding. However, if you like me, you read between the lines and draw the logical conclusion. In my opinion, this is an unsophisticated person raising aggressive dogs to make a buck.

PS we had a CMHA 21-year police veteran canine officer (Cleveland housing Metro authority) who in retirement runs a business that detects explosives, narcotics, gunpowder, etc. for the NFL, NBA, and MLB teams in Cleveland issue an opinion on what to do in the situation we were in. I am going to say that his opinion outweighs mad River and all of their shills opinions about 10,000 to 1. Here is a person who actually understands dog psychology and trains them for the Department of Homeland Security as well as local law enforcement. What he does not do is train dogs for the public. Please understand that I am summarizing here; however, in no uncertain terms he made it clear that due to the proximity of the dog’s mouth to my daughter’s face, a dog bite injury can be very severe from a large breed due to the dog height. My veterinarian concurred with this opinion, and it is this simple… Are you the kind of idiot that loves your dog more than your children? This alleged customer of mad rivers says “if you love your dog’s then you love your dogs”. Well, I love my children and would never jeopardize their safety over a dog. The breeder should have tried to rehome the dog at no cost to them with a family who has no children and that dog would still be alive today. Instead… Just read my first report, and you will see what happened. Like they said, “buyer beware.”

Sadly, the person who left the rebuttal to my very in depth and thorough review clearly did not read the entire report. I make this assumption because he thinks that I should've checked with my wife before buying the dog LOL.

Do your friend a favor, do not leave any more rebuttals on his behalf. You have strength my position exponentially by stating that their contract does not require them to take the animal back. Ironically, I just purchased a show quality dog from another breeder and their contract specifically states that they must have first right of refusal to take the dog back. The last thing any legitimate breeder wants is for someone to have to destroy the animal. All you had to do was read the entire (understandably long) review and you would've known that.

Here is the bottom line, No legitimate breeder anywhere wants you to destroy one of their animals; he was far more concerned with the dog being neutered within 12 months (which again I will state is an absolute mistake on a giant breed dog) than he was about my daughter getting bitten. I suppose its best that this conversation took place over the phone versus in person. I wonder how the average reader of this post would feel if they were posed but that situation?