As you probably know, English game wardens bred mastiffs with bulldogs after some unfortunate experiences with mastiffs dismembering poachers, some of them children.
The bull mastiff will knock an intruder down and stand on him. Sure you’ve noticed they have paws like a cat to assist them in stalking. And gamekeepers could feel their foreheads in the dark. If the forehead was wrinkled it meant something had gotten their attention.
Mine is a sweetheart: It’s only when she’s eating pork rib bones like bread-sticks that I remember she’s a beast.
Evenings like these, cool after a warm day, I miss my Sampson. He was 135 pounds of lovable lap dog! We adopted him through the American Bullmastiff Association. We’d do it again but our son is three and a half and our baby girl is eight months old. Even though Sammy was a sweat heart, he was still a bully in a china shop! It’s not the right time for us.