DELLA FORTE News - Please sign our guestbook with your memories of BRUNO or if you have pictures please forward via email mastinidellaforte@hotmail.com and we will post to the Gallery Home to the #1 Neapolitan Mastiff - CONGRATULATIONS TO GCH OTELLA BRUTO FOR BACK TO BACK NATIONAL BEST OF BREED WINS - 2011 20th Anniversary USNMC National Specialty and 2011 AKC/Eukanuba National Championship CURRENT BREEDING News ...... omin UPCOMING DOG SHOWS ......

Welcome to MASTINI DELLA FORTE, which means mastiff's of "the strong" and typifies our breed and our dogs, the Neapolitan Mastiff:

"muscular power, mentally powerful, physically vigorous, willful, great force, solid, intense, tough, healthy"

My name is Tony Gurrola and we are located on the eastern seaboard of the United States of America. I am a professional handler by trade and have been involved with breeding and exhibiting dogs for over 13 years now. This all began with my passion for the Bullmastiff. I have bred and exhibited some of the top ranked Bullmastiffs in the country and continue to do so.

DELLA FORTE is a new kennel but we are not new to the Neapolitan Mastiff breed. It all began in 2004, while living in Arizona, I began to help and handle Neapolitan Mastiffs for other handlers, and it was during this time that my love developed for this magnificent breed. In 2008, I began to show Neapolitan Mastiffs extensively, placing many with AKC Championship title. I have had the opportunity to handle, GCH Bruno DVR, not only the top winning Neapolitan Mastiff in America, but achieved history in 2010 by winning the first and second Best In Show for the breed.

Our goal here at DELLA FORTE is to produce Mastini true to Italian type with good health, temperament and structure, we breed for QUALITY not QUANTITY. Our breeding standards at DELLA FORTE will be selective, with written guarantees, limited registration, and of course spay/neuter contracts. Our puppies are all hand reared from birth and come with all vaccinations, veterinarian check, health certificate, and micro-chip. Please contact us regarding specific breed information, canine reproduction, or inquiries into available puppies and/or stud service.

- MASTINI DELLA FORTE -

"Breeding future champions and quality companions"

ENJOY our site and we look forward to hearing from you!

TONY GURROLA

MASTINI DELLA FORTE

724-557-9917

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DELLA FORTE consists of five Neapolitan Mastiffs, three males, Bronze GCH BRUNO DELLA VECCHIA ROMA (#1 ranked all breed), our next specialty GCH OTELLA BRUTO ( #1 ranked breed and all systems), and our new champion DELLA FORTE AMERICAN GANGSTER, along with two females, CH MAXIMUM'S GODIVA, and CH OTELLA BRUTELLA.

Our bloodlines are looked upon as having some of the finest pedigrees and greatest champions from Del Castellaccio, Della Grotta Azzura, Dello Stradone to Illimani, Del Fuedo Nisseno, and Della Vecchia Roma.

GCH BRUNO DVR

SHOW NEWS

20th Anniversary USNMC National Specialty Collar

IN LOVING MEMORY OF

~~ GCH BRUNO DELLA VECCHIA ROMA ~~

March 21st, 2006 to September 11th, 2011

“Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.“

~William Shakespeare~

Bruno passed suddenly on the evening of September 11, 2011,

a day when people where mourning the tragic events of 9/11.

This day was like every other day for Bruno; he woke just like every other day;

he ate, walked, and played like every other day.

But his passing was unlike every other day.

Bruno was a friend of many and the companion of one.

He was protective, loyal, intelligent,and awe inspiring.

He brought honour, integrity and respect to the show ring.

Earning his breed's praise.

His name will be forever written in breed history;

to be remembered by all.

His canine name, "BRUNO" will be shinning bright as

HE has earned the undying glory of a "ROCKSTAR".

RIP ~ BIG BOY

~You will be sadly missed~

Sincere appreciation goes to Janice Wolf, DVM of Otella Kennels, co-owner, who gave me the honour of handling and co-owning Bruno, to Jenny and Thierry Paratore of Della Vecchia Roma, without them Bruno would not have graced our world, and to all the judges who made Bruno a history maker.

“A moment lasts all of a second, but the memory lives on forever.”

~~ TRIBUTE TO A DOG ~~

"The one absolutely unselfish friend that a man can have ......the one that never deserts him and the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous is his dog..... He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince. When all other friends desert he remains"

~ GG Vest (1810) ~