The origins of the race Ca de Bou, like in the great majority of the canine races with as much antiquity, are confused.

If there is to look for an origin our race, this it must be through the prey dogs that arrived at Majorca in 1.229 with Don Jaime I the Conqueror.

These dogs were dogs Mastiff, similar to which later was used in the conquest of America. These molosos were carried by the Horsemen of the famous Order of Malta, being their mission surely, due to their enormous force and ferocity, opening breaches between the enemy army.

Later to the conquest of Majorca, this canine population was based, crossing among them and native dogs, forming therefore a grouping of prey dogs whose use was basically the work with the cattle and the guard of people and properties.

The Union of Butchers or Cutters, used with much success to these dogs from the century XIII, to which they had like aids in his daily tasks.

The passage of the years, this population of prey dogs , was due to cross, not only of circumstantial form but also of premeditaded form, with the other dog of guard and island pasturing, looking for to improve the functionality in its respective tasks, arising from these crossings the present Ca de Bou.

By its brave character, it was used to him, to the animal margin cowherd of takes hold, in bullfighting spectacles, very in rows in the Majorca of the time.

Testimonies of this itself race exist from century XVI. In the Book of Origins Spanish published in 1.923 already there is certainty of this race, appearing in 1.928 the first enrolled unit.