English Mastiffs

[Serena]

Anyone know anything about them?

 

[Lisa L from MI]

I have a Bullmastiff....smaller version of the English Mastiff....English ones are like small horses!!! Makes my Babe look like a little puppy....and she is 120 lbs!!!

 

[Serena]

That's pretty much what I thought. I need to do some research on them, but I thought I'd start here.

 

[DocRafiki]

If you plan on raising one, you should plan on keeping a big cushion in the bank.

 

[Serena]

Doc, I have every plan on NOT raising one, but my dd bought one and I'm trying to find out all I can about it.
She bought it, her bf co-signed for it and it's with him. I flat out told her "no", but she found away around that.

 

[Jimmac]

I owned a female English Mastiff for nine years. As a 2 month old puppy she was the size of an average dog. She grew to be 140 pounds. Males are much larger. Great temprement, wonderful with small children. She rarely barked but when she did it would shake the house. This dog needs a lot of room and a lot of area to run around. Definitely not an apartment/condo breed.

 

[ChefBilly]

I got friendly with a cop who owned two - one female and one male. The male was around 200 pounds! It brushed by me and knocked me into the kitchen counter.
They both had great temperments, and I started to think about maybe getting one someday. And then I saw what they left behind in the back yard!
Not to be too graphic, but I decided I didn't want to be shoveling that every day.
They just kept reminding me of what it might be to have a lion as a pet. That's how big they were.
One day I saw his truck parked outside the station, and it was rocking back and forth wildly. I looked in the bed, and the two dogs were inside playing.
Sadly, the cop was killed about a year later. I don't know what happened to his dogs, but it just made me sad to think that amidst the obvious tragedy, these two beautiful animals were now without their master.

 

[tkyes]

get a bib for the dog - my friends have one and theirs drools like crazy!! sweet dog though.

 

[Serena]

I'll make sure and wear a raincoat when I see it.

 

[Serena]

Oh my! What on earth was she thinking?

I've done some research and found out more than I wanted to know. A dog as big as my couch, and it drools and farts a lot.

 

[DocRafiki]

Serena -- that sounds like a bad situation. How old is your daughter? Does she live with you? I hate seeing young people buy pets (well I hate seeing anyone BUY pets, but that's a whole different story). They almost always end up giving them away, often to a shelter. It's amazing how little planning ahead people do when they decide to get a pet. I had 3 college kids come in with "their" new dog. I asked whose it was & they said all of theirs. I told them they needed to figure out which one was the owner unless they had a joint checking account AND intended to still be roommates for the next 10-15 years. I truly think they had no concept that the dog would actually be around after they finished college. I'm not sure they realized they ever WOULD finish college or stop being roommates.
Anyway, if your daughter needs a reality check, I can give her one.

 

[Serena]

Doc, she did her research. She talked with a reputable breeder and that's who she got it from.
The other kids in the apartment wanted a rotty or a pitt bull and she didn't want something like that. And she wanted control over what kind of dog it was, who they got it from and how it was treated and trained.
That much she listens to me.

Anyway, she's 17, almost 18. She wanted me to raise it until she was ready to move out, but I refused. So, it's at the apartment with him.

They plan on moving to a house, and the plan on doing this and that, in the mean time, if she ever breaks up with him, that'll be the end of that. Sheesh, the kid just got this apartment a couple months ago, before that he lived in my rv. They are not ready for this, but there is no way they are listening to me right now.

I know she will not mistreat it, I just know I will end up with it if everything does not go well. But that's because I'm an idiot and won't let anything happen to it.