My sister holding a six-week-old female mastiff puppy.
My sister and her boyfriend went up between Pittsburgh and Youngstown yesterday evening to pick out a mastiff puppy.
She’s six weeks old and is still too young to leave her mother.
He’s chosen the name Zhara for the puppy.
At six weeks old, it looks like she’s already larger than Willie.
And she might mature somewhere in the 180 pound range, which is more than twice the size of Miley.
“”As a lion is to a cat, so is a mastiff compared to a dog,” goes an eighteenth century English saying.
And I think they’ve been bred in the current form, which differs quite a bit from the dogs that were historically called mastiffs in England, to look more like the English lion than they did originally.
There is a lot of St. Bernard and bullmastiff in this breed, which is why she looks so fuzzy and sable now. She will mature as an apricot mastiff.
My neighbor’s son has a male, named Peewee, who makes my Sammie look like a midget. These are truly giant dogs and are not particularly active once grown.
Met an adult female Mastiff who was taking part, as a Therapy Dog, in a children’s reading program at a library. The dogs cuddle with and listen while the children read out loud, as part of an after school program.
Lovely, gentle personality and impressive looks.
As a child, I spent maybe excessive amounts of time at the library. If these various Therapy Dogs had been there at that time, I may never have left at all.
That’s going to be fun.
Holy! These guys are big and heavy. What made your sister decide on a Mastiff? Just thinking about their dietary requirements sends shivers down my spine LOL.
My Kuvasz boy (K2) has a Mastiff friend at the dog park. He tolerates K2’s boistrousness, but gets exhausted within 2 minutes. He takes continual breethers before joining K2 again. Sometimes he just sits down and plays lying in that position. Great breed for the couch potatoes, er, I mean for great people :-)
You hit it on the nose Suhail. They are good dogs for less active people. But if my experience w/ Saints is any gauge, they won’t eat any more than a GSD–less energy expended=less fuel needed. They are great dogs though.
I hear you Massugu. If not diet, then drooling is definitely a problem LOL.
Of the 5 Saints we’ve owned, only the first was a dry-mouth (I think it was the classic bait-and-switch, LOL). Once we had her we were hooked, we just got used to having beautiful dogs vice a beautiful house. Our current guy is the worst drooler of the lot. BTW: just today met someone w/ a Saint/GSD cross, 160lbs, but no drool–what a gorgeous animal!
I have a good memory associated with Saint Bernards. My daughter, son and I hiked to the top of the Grandfather Mountain in NC in 2009. There, from the top, we saw this gentleman with two SBs hiking up. When he stood by a protruding rock of one lower cliff, that was truly an impressive site.
Another classic drooler: Newfoundlands. When they decide to shake off their drool, reportedly, their humans run for cover :-D.
It’s her boyfriend’s dog.
I guess he just wanted a nice dog that was really big.
They’ll love her–even w/ the drool.
I’d love to see some more pictures, good luck with their new family member.