For anyone looking at this except Crystal: Made ya look! Get your minds out of the gutter, you bunch!
Crystal, here's that picture of my brother's bullmastiff, Willy, receiving his champion status. He's a beautiful dog - 130 pounds and growing. His last bullmastiff, the one I showed a pic of before guarding my Cherokee, hit 155 pounds at his peak. I love these dogs - gentle giants, they are:
Here's the 155-pounder, Sage (RIP):
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LMAO!
Those are awesome dogs! I love my bull breeds, they're all such big babies until you screw with their master or home :)
those are awesome dogs, but ive seen quite a few aggressive towards other animals
That is just a matter of how the dog is brought up (or bred), just like any other breed or even people. Show me a dog more agressive to other dogs than a terrier, chihuahua or most other cat sized dogs.
My brother has had three mastiffs and all three were literally gentle giants. I've never even seen an agressive bullmastiff. They grew up around other dogs (at shows, out walking, etc) and none of them even raised an eyebrow at another og walking by. Conversely, my golden retriever is fine around other dogs so long as they're not in my yard, and he absolutely, positively HATES cats (much to the chagrin of my two cats). If a dog (or cat) enters my yard the golden goes ballistic.
An indicator of how gentle these dogs are: A few years ago my brother's house was robbed. The thieves led the 155-pounder pictured next to the Jeep above into the master bedroom and locked him up, then proceeded to rob the house. Brave or stupid, but definitely bold (we figure the thieves had to know him, because gentle or not, ol' sage sure was intimidating!)
Now, my brother did have one very agressive dog, an American Bull. It was extremely territorial, and even while walking it the dog would try to eat averyone and everything that came near it. You have not heard fearful until you have heard the bar of a very mad bulldog - it's not even a bark, really. It's a truly ungodly noise. He tried taking it to an agressive dog class, where an almost funny incident happened - the dog was lunged at by a rottweiller. Cain (the Bulldog) lunged back and almost turned himself out trying to get at that rottie. The rottie owner sneered and said "That would've been over quickly", and the instructor overheard. He came over and said: "Yes, it would be short - the bull would've been shiznitting rottie chunks for days." The rottie owner looked rather dismayed, and the instructor explained flatly: "Your rottie was just showing off. The bull wanted to kill. The rottie would'nt last a minute."
After several weeks of training my brother, with the blessing of the instructor, elected to have the dog put down. He was untrainable and very dangerous, and was simply insane. Afterward, my brother found out that four of the five dogs in his litter had to be destroyed for agressiveness. Must've been something with the breeding...
Yikes, my 1 year old Siberian Husky is half the size :P
well...i have a 180+ pound great dane (i say 180+ because last time he was weighed in, he was 179 pounds, and he's put on weight, gettin old)
this dog hates anything other than humans, and even some of them, ive walked him up the street, and he saw another dog, and he had me skiing across the sidewalk, grass, and gravel, it was horribly scary for me, here i am, a pen 15y teen, i was liftin weights, getting all the ladies (that stopped quick), and all this, to be humbled by a dog i cant control
the reason we have the dog, the previous owner of him before the previous...one before last, had a bullsmastif, i think 120 pound male, they got into a serious fight, and my dog tore up the poor mastiff, i saw a picture of the mastiff, and the poor dog was shaven and had stitches all over its neck, my dog came out with maybe 2 or 3 small gouges, so then the owner separated the dogs, found another owner for my dog, which was a couple, who had a cat, and a poodle, and in a large apartment, they kept the cat and poodle in another room for a day or so, so my dog could "adjust", then they tried to have the animals "meet", then basically held the cat up to my dog, and he mauled the cat, and later got the poodle, the cat lived, the poodle didnt
now we have him
180 pounds? That's a big-ass dog, but your story kinda proves my point about individual dogs, not breeds, being nasty. Nobody would ever suspect Marmaduke to act like Cujo because Danes aren't known for their agression. Same as my Golden - everybody pictures Goldens to be friendly, but stupid, dogs. Mine is certainly stupid, but he is also very territorial (despite his lack of 'nads - he was neutered when he was six months old). In fact, even while typing this I just had to get up and take him inside because he's freaking out at a cat across the street. He also tried to eat a meter reader once because the meter reader viewed him as a "friendly" golden and walked right up to the fence.
His only "golden" trait is his stupidity - he ate 60 light bulbs once (those large outdoor Christmas lights - he ate the whole string. Wires, sockets, bulbs and all. The vet said he was lucky to be alive. Dumb luck.) Very, very stupid dog. 100 pounds of pure stupid, to be exact. And strangely enough, I love him to death :D
LOL, I remember reading about that light bulb incident... :disappoin
Don't feel bad though, my dog's not exactly brilliant. I was playing with her in the yard and went "why's the frisbee all bloody?" Shortly afterward I found what were the few shreds of a soda can that she hadn't eaten...
And honestly, sometimes I think it's the stupidity of dogs that makes people love em so much :giggle:
Of course - we, as humans, have to feel superior to
something :hick:
Danes are known for aggression to other animals, unless you raise them from start to finish around other dogs, i was told that by about 3 breeders, but by the time we got him, he was already 4 years old, and had a history, so there wasnt much we could do...cant even smack him, because you hit him hard, and he doesnt even flinch
as for dogs eating things...
my aunt has a mutt, dominantly husky, and that dog would eat christman ornaments off of the tree, would eat pens, pencils, my cousins toys when he was a baby, this dog would eat everything, he would take my aunts underware out in the lawn, and just shred them and eat them...a very stupid dog, but an awesome dog otherwise, he's about 13 years old, doesnt have much of teeth anymore, but jumps around like a puppy