Since 1996 we are addicted to the Mastiff. We bought our first brindle Mastiff,
soon it was the most fantastic dog we could think of. One of the nice parts of this
dog seemed to be in her caracter, what means that one could find it also in other
Mastiffs. Meanwhile we have had 7 Mastiffs and all of them were equally beloved. What
makes it that way? For the Mastiff the whole family is important and not alone the
one who gives them their food. Every member of the family always gets a greet and
Mastiff likes it the most when the whole family is complete. Our first Mastiff was
Alcor, a really big bitch with a weight of 90 kg, this was a good weight for her.
For sure one of the biggest bitches one knows. After 2 years she got a playmate,
Snoopy, an abricot Mastiff. But Alcor liked it much more to be lazy and she didn’t
play that much with Snoopy, whereas Snoopy likes to swim and to run after a ball.
Because of that we decided to buy a third Mastiff, Mailo, she was fawn. We didn’t
want that Snoopy should be on her own when Alcor wasn’t there anymore. Alcor almost
reached 8 years. Then it felt that 2 Mastiffs isn’t that much and we missed Alcor
very much so we bought a male, Tycho. After that we got another bitch, Kita, there
wasn’t enough place to breed with her, so we got her, since she was meant to breed
with. Well 3 or 4, it doesn’t matter. Unfortunately Mailo got ample 5 years and
there were 3 left again. But in February we finally got to the point that Kita
could mate with an American male living in Denmark. From this litter only 3 puppies
survived and then it is really hard to sell all of them, thus we kept one male and
one female, now we have 5 Mastiffs. So infectious is a Mastiff. Snoopy became almost 10 years old.
Tycho is now 4 ½, Kita 3 ½, Ursus and Raika 1 ½ years old, Lento is 3 months.
It is a lovely property which we enjoy very much. They have enough space and are
living in the barn, from where they can go inside and outside the whole day and
free to go.
22-10-2008
