Breeds

Female Fila Brasileiro being presented at the World Dog Show in Paris in 2011. Photo by Dan Sayers.

Daniel Rosa, Fila Brasileiro, Fila Brasileiro, More Molossers

The Untouchables: Judging the Fila Brasileiro

Like Mom used to say, look but don't touch when it comes to the national dog of Brazil.

Black and tan, Disqualification, Michael Sottile, Cane Corso

Color Disqualification in the Cane Corso

Why is there so much confusion over these 13 words in the AKC standard?

Cane Corso, Neapolitan Mastiff

Move over, Godzilla and Kong: It's Cane Corso vs. Neapolitan Mastiff

Will the original Italian Molosser please stand up?

Confederacy, Great Dane, Russian Bloodhound, More Molossers

Hero, the Confederate Prison Dog

This "Russian Bloodhound" (or maybe "Bavarian Boar Hound") was once considered the biggest dog in the world.

Billy Brittle, British Bullmastiff League, Bullmastiff, Bullmastiff Society of Scotland, Centennial Championship Show, Chris Quantrill, Chris Roberts, Daniel Brown, Grant Slater, Hillary Norbury, Jan Quantrill, Margaret Widman-Wildox, Mary B. Walsh, Northern Bullmastiff Club, Southern Bullmastiff Society

A Hundred Years of Bullmastiffs

British show celebrated the breed’s official century-old birthday.

Canine Multifocal Retinopathy, cmr, Valeerie L. Dufour, Cane Corso, Dogue De Bordeaux, Mastiff, More Molossers

Will My Molosser Go Blind from Canine Multifocal Retinopathy?

Understanding Canine Multifocal Retinopathy disease in Molossers.

Argentina, Javier Melei, Mastiff

Meet Argentina’s Cloned Presidential Mastiffs

Javier Melei intends to govern with his five genetically identical Molossers at his side.

Babylon, Mesopotamia, More Molossers

Big Babylonian Dogs

The Near East is the geographical region that stretches from the eastern shore of the Mediterranean (modern Israel, Lebanon and Syria) to the Zagros Mountains that form the western edge of the Iranian plateau, as far north as Anatolia (modern Turkey) and south to the Persian/Arab Gulf. The central...