Proof of her breed's athleticism, this Dogue de Bordeaux tries her paw at the fast-paced Sighthound sport of lure coursing.
In lure coursing, what Dogues don’t have in the grace of a Sighthound they make up for in focus.
In 1896, Dogue de Bordeaux fancier Jean-Pierre Megnin described the state of the breed, both in the show ring and whelping box.
Docility, sociability, temperament, curiosity, watchfulness and fiber are among the traits that comprise Cane Corso temperament.
If we lose the temperament, argues Cane Corso fancier Michael Ertaskiran, we lose the breed.Â
Christofer Habig outlines a plan to split the Tibetan Mastiff into two breeds: a true long-haired mastiff called the Zang Ao and the more moderate Do Khyi.
A head study of Ch. Snowy Mountain Chakotay at Iron Hills. Note the beautiful nose and lip pigment, as well as the absence of eye-rim pigment. While very desirable, pigmented eye rims are not a requirement of any Dogo standard.
Dogo breeders strive to accomplish what Mother Nature has created in the polar bear — a black-skinned animal with a full white coat.
Neapolitan Mastiffs are living, breathing relics — and they are as misunderstood as they are imposing.
America's most famous -- and richest -- family also bred some of the first Bullmastiffs in the United States.
"No chin, no chance" is Belgian judge Bas Bosch's oft-repeated admonition about Dogues de Bordeaux who hope to earn a ribbon under him.
Two Bullmastiffs lived at Colonial Williamsburg in the early 1940s, presumably guarding the restored colonial village. Did they patrol its perimeter as their brethren did farther north for the Rockefeller family?
In the 1940s, two Rockefeller-bred Bullmastiffs arrived at this colonial town as a canine anachronisms.
Did the Rockefeller family and early Bullmastiff breeder John Cross ever cross paths? Not likely.