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Got this from a friend and it's amazing!


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Biggest f***ing dog I've ever seen! Have any of you ever seen anything close?

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that dog needs it's own zipcode...

it's not even clifford the big red dog...

Jeezus...his tounge is as wide as her head.:eek:

Snopes confirms: that's a mastiff. They can't confirm whether the description originates in the same place as the photo (though I personally doubt it).

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/bigdog.asp

I once knew a mastiff named Zeus. After an initial get-to-know-you period, he'd decide you were his pal, and he'd walk up and lean against you. This is a 230-lb dog... leaning against you. Zeus put my on my ass several times.

my dogs could *actually* fit in that dogs mouth. I think I will stick to my pugs, I get the feeling that guy is hard on wood floors.

Wow, that thing is monstrous! Biggest dogs I ever hung out with were American Bulldogs. They were about 150-160 pounds. Huge heads like that mastiff, but that thing is just a monster. I bet after he gets to know you he's an adorable fella though!

Any unwanted company would definately leave... I wonder what her bark sounds like...

If I saw that coming at me I think I may actually mess myself.

While they definitely LOOK like they could do some damage, they're more inclined toward holding off strangers than attacking them. Zeus (see above) would position himself between his mommy and any new person until it was clear that mommy was okay with them being there. Once it was cool with mommy, it was cool with Zeus.

That apears to be a Belgian Mastiff. They are typicaly 27-32 inches tall and weigh around 100 pounds.
Here is a pic from a website calledMastiff Club Belgium
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k6...laMoncient.jpg

Really, only 100 pounds? I've had dogs about the same heighth with much less body mass that weighed 120 pounds, and my last dog was less than half as tall with a similar build and weight in at 65 pounds.

I would think they easily pass 120, and could reach 150+ if bred "right".

Actually, I'm pretty sure it's an English mastiff. When most folks think mastiff, that's the dog they think of; these and Neapolitans are the largest mastiffs out there. Anyone who's seen Turner & Hooch knows this breed; Hooch was an English mastiff. They're big dogs, but let's keep in mind that there's some serious forced perspective going on here. Even mastiffs aren't quite that big.

ratbastid - Most mastiffs are pretty affectionate with folks they know. My step-dad once had a Neapolitan named Sasquatch who was known for trying to climb into people's laps. He was about 175 and at least 32" at the withers. Don't go making the mistake of thinking of these guys as gentle giants, though - I've only seen a Mastiff get really worked up twice in my life, but it's a sight I'm not about to forget in a hurry. They can move when they want to, big or not.

Lady Sage - Big, throaty and barrel-chested. My step-dad breeds bullmastiffs, which are the smaller cousins of these guys; let's just say there aren't a lot of uninvited guests out at their house. Their bark is very intimidating if you're not used to it.

EDIT - The numbers are right, but that's not a Belgian. I think Zed Wolf is confused by the fact that he's linked the Belgium Mastiff club, without realizing that when the term mastiff is used with no modifier it's almost always referring to an English mastiff.

As a point of interest, this is a Belgian mastiff.

http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/images14...ffHPIM1079.JPG

We often saw them when we where taking our Newfs through confirmation trials. Our male Newf was a very big dog, but he froze in his tracks when he came upon a line of five or six mastiffs. The owner put the palm of her hand over the first mastiff's eyes and Jack skeedadled past. :)

Funny, my newfie is enamored with Mastiffs. She'd drag me over to meet each and every one at dog school.


"Hey big boy ... "

Jack was a wuss. Libby liked the big boys, too. :D

Such a beautiful harmless looking guy...... but I'd hate that food bill, to clean his doo, to try to rub his belly or take him for car rides..... the type where if I had a nice farm and the kids, I would love to see him playing with them..... but in any other setting.....

Give me a chihuahua, peke, toy/mini poodle, schnauzer or yorkie anyday.

I just had a horrible thought ...

If a giant male mastiff was getting horny ... it's probably not just my leg he's gonna hump....

... I'll stick with pets that weigh less than me.

I grew up with a pack of german shepards and a great pyrneese. We had some 'big' sheperds, 90 lb or so. But the one pyrneese we had was a giant. The one time we weighed him, he was over 180. I used to run with them, and I was a solid 200 lbs, but a solid pyrneese shoulder to my hip almost sent me sprawling on a few occasions.

It was a good thing costco sold dog food. The ferrier (guy that shoed the horses) raised chickens and would give us hundreds of eggs that were too old/not high enough quality to sell to humans. We also had a neighbor that was an avid hunter who would usually give us a freezer full of meat every fall to feed the dogs.