My name is Mª Alicia Mauriño and my husband is Aníbal Otaño, we are from Salta City, located in the north of Argentina. Salta is called "Salta the pretty", because of its beauty and its ancestral ''gauchescas''* customs (* from the word "gauchos" -argentinian cowboys-). Now we live in the city of Córdoba, Spain.

¿Why "Del Bagual"? A "bagual" is an indomitable horse (stallion), known in Salta as the "Northern Bagual" that traditionally is presented in all the festivales of folklore and hore taming to show our men skills. Along with my father we used to attend all those festivals, and in honor to that tradition we chose that name for our kennel: "Del Bagual".

I always lived in the countryside surrounded by all type of animals, mainly horses and dogs, sharing a lot of things with the ''gauchos''. I liked to see them work with their horses and the cattle, where the dogs were helpful and a very loyal companion to them. I used to ride horses everyday and more than once a lonely dog followed me, of course that dog finished living at home with me. I got to have fifteen and I liked them all, I never had predilection by one breed, but I liked the brave ones, those with the ones you feel safe walking alone the countryside. The day I saw for the first time an authentic "Dogo Argentino" I knew that it would be the breed that would accompany me for the rest of my life.

I would be fourteen or fifteen years old, when one day arrived at my house Mr. Víctor Aranda Saravia, with whom we shared long rides, he told me that he wanted to show me something he had in his car. IT WAS a DOGO, the dog had been left in his ranch by Nicholas Lecuona Del Prat, a great friend of his family. I had never seen a dog with so much power, nobility and beauty. From that day on we always had a dogo argentino at home; the first ones will always be among my dearer memories: Body ''the thief'' (almost every morning we found at home ropes, "facones" -long gaucho knives-, knee-high leather boots, etc.), Nahuel "the lazy" and Lola and Malevo (so fighters, these dogos were a gift of my friend Pelusa Bobes Martín, a great German Sheepdog breeder).

When I met Aníbal, my husband, he was a great fan of huntings with pointing dogs. He got to bred very good Pointers, which he used to distribute among his friends and then share huntings with them, but he ended up becoming a "doguero" -dogo argentino fan-. After two years to be living in Spain we felt that a very important part of our lives was missing, we needed to fill that emptiness that you feel when you love dogs and you have a great passion by your breed, so together we decided to form our family of dogos in Spain. This is our home, where together with our dogs we live this beautifull experiencie: