Mastiffs

The Guinness World Record for heaviest dog breed belongs to both the Neapolitan Mastiff AND the St. Bernard, with the males of both species regularly weighing 75-90kg (165-200lb)

A Belgian Mastiff is a large breed of dog.

The lifespan for a Bullmastiff is generally from eight to ten years..

Mastiff is derived from a Latin word for tame. They were originally a very gentle breed bred for pulling carts and protecting the family. Later they were bred to be more aggressive and to bulk up other breeds for war and the gladiator arenas.

There is only one English mastiff in particular but there are quite a few different types of mass tiffs in general such as the French mastiff, the South African mastiff, the Italiano mastiff, the Neapolitan mastiff, I remember reading somewhere there’s a Spanish mastiff, and then you have the English mass tiff of course. Dog from Turner and hooch was a French mastiff, I personally have Italian mastiff and an old friend of mine had the biggest of the big, the South African mastiff, even larger than the English mastiff . And believe me when I say the dog was huge! But those are the types that I can think about off the top of my head and they all have very different looks to them.

No he is an English mastiff which tend to be larger than bull mastiffs

They are described as gentle giants.

Yes, because a tibetan mastiff is larger and has protective thick fur that looks like a rottweiler.

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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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they can be

5-8-10 years not as much as an american budgie, which can live up to 20 years.

Bull terriers were developed in England during the 19th century. Around 1835, a cross between the old English terrier and the bulldog produced the Bull Terrier. Later crosses to the Spanish Pointer; even later, to the white English terrier and Dalmatian, produced a stylish, tough, white dog.

You can breed any two breeds of dog together (even a great dane and a chihuahua) because although some dogs look much different to other dogs, all dogs are the same species and two members of the same species can breed and produce fertile young.

This dog sounds like he has the run of your house. You need to be the pack leader. You need to claim the couch and not let the dog rule over you.For expert help on this go to the link below.

They drool A LOT!

Consider this when thinking about purchase!

They are a very rare breed, and most reputable breeders sell the pet quality for $1500 to $2000, and the show quality for $3,000 - $5,000. This includes shots, micro chipping and health guarantee. The cost to keep a Pyrenean Mastiff is between $250 and $350 a month.

Yes. Mastiffs are a popular breed.

Yes, it could possibly end up being the biggest of the litter.

That will depend on the breed of Mastiff. English Mastiff bites have been reported as high as 800+ lbs, while Bull Mastiffs have been reported around 550 lbs of force. Canine bite force is directly related to head size.

yes

556 and if you don't belive me go to youtube or national geographic and find dog attack styles

First, to WHOEVER said that their Neapolitan Mastiff weighted 35 pounds is doing something terribly wrong!! Mines at 115 lbs give or take depends if he is on an empty stomach or not. He's not the largest one but he is a still in the large section of the breed.