What is the history of Nebolish Mastiff?

Answer 1

Nebolish Mastiffs are an effort to recreate the Mastiff people read about in History, improving upon the bad health and low agility that plagued the Old English Mastiff breed since the war era. Nebolish are a great improvement on the Mastiff breed, by careful selective crossbreeding and linebreeding. The hope of the Nebolish Mastiff Club is that they never become so popular to loose the integrety of the breed, and compromise the work of this Club since its first meeting, in 1968. Please review the history of the Old English Mastiff, and understand the goal of the Nebolish Mastiff as a breed. Over the past few centuries the Old English Mastiff, well known as the Mastiff, has been perfected in the Nebolish Mastiff, from crossbreeding to several breeds of molloser type dogs – all being dogs of the working class. This may have been done for a variety of reasons, including, but not limited to, – necessity (to resuscitate a dying breed), geography, lack of compatible regional breeding stock, and, in some cases, ignorance. Below is an etching of Lukey’s Governor and his pedigree…


Regardless of why it was done, the combination of all the breeds mixed into this great breed has created the Nebolish Mastiff as we know and love him today. All Mastiffs, of the old English variety, share a common gene pool; the majority of which can be linked directly to a handful of dogs. The studbooks, which were hand written back in the 1800s, show that many of our ancestral Mastiffs all go back to one particularly small gene pool. In the beginning, this would include Lukey’s Governor, for whom the standard was written to reflect in 1867. From this 1867 standard, we created our 1986, Nebolish Mastiff Standard. See Nebolish Mastiff Standard approved by Nebolish Mastiff Club Of America.


As you can see from his pedigree above, not much was known about his sire's side of the tree, but the dam's side is very interesting if you go back and look at the lineage closely.
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Lukey's Bruce II ( Grandfather & Great-great Grandfather) above - he is listed as a 'blue brindle'. A Color still produced in the Nebolish Mastiff
Hertford's Pluto ( Great-great Grandfather) above - he is listed as a ' black rough coated Tibetan Mastiff' why you would get a longer coat, on 1 pup in a litter, on rare occasion.
And, just for fun, below is the pedigree for Thompsons’ Juno, Lukey's Great-Grandmother...

Waterton's Tiger, who is also related (it gets kinda confusing when you see all the in-breeding and linebreeding - counted at least 5 'greats' to this one) to the Lukey kid. It seems that Thompson's Duchess' great, great-Grandmom (Crabtree's Dorah) goes back to a male on her dams side by the name of 'Waterton's Tiger (pedigree above). Turns out he is an Irish import Great Dane with a cropped tail - or possibly a Boarhound.
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