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Posted by Fenland Joe
on December 19, 2008, 4:15 pm
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I have little experience with the Bullmastiff, but i enjoy researching the breed and it's guarding history. I have long wondered why the Bullmastiff isn't used more as a guard, most people instead using Rottweilers, Dobermans or German Shepherds. Even in it's native country of England, i see many more German guards than these original game keepers night dogs. To me, the Bullmastiff has everything needed in a multipurpose guarddog, size, athleticism, intelligence and above all else, a strong inbred desire to guard, your family and your home. Once again with so many breeds, the Bullmastiff has suffered from breeding purely for vanity and for show. The healthy, athletic specimens of the breed are a spectacle to behold. My earliest memory of the breed were two male Bullmastiffs owned by a wealthy businessman, in the town where i went to school. I would ride my bike past the gates to this property, back and forth, just to see these amazing animals. As soon as they heard you coming, they would both rush up to the gates. These dogs would fight each other just to get at you! Both dogs were huge, bone, muscle and athleticism and seemingly very healthy, still to this day the most impressive guards i have ever seen. Two beautiful specimens of the breed.
A few years after leaving school, i went back to where these dogs lived, i had presumed that both dogs had died of old age, but as i piered through the gates i could see, just one sleeping Bullmastiff. Grey around the muzzle, perhaps a little deaf now, he was after all getting on abit. But as soon as i shuffled my feet in the gravel he jumped up onto his feet and rushed up to the gates, still full of fire as if he were in his prime.
If anyone has any pics of there dogs, or historical Bullmastiff pics, please feel free to post them, i'm sure we'd all love to see them, i know i would!
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