Since 1996 we are addicted to the Mastiff. We bought our first brindle Mastiff,
soon it was the most fantastic dog we could think of. One of the nice parts of this
dog seemed to be in her caracter, what means that one could find it also in other
Mastiffs. What makes it that way? For the Mastiff the whole family is important and not alone the
one who gives them their food. Every member of the family always gets a greet and
Mastiff likes it the most when the whole family is complete.
Our first Mastiff was
Alcor, a really big bitch with a weight of 90 kg, this was a good weight for her.
For sure one of the biggest bitches one knows. After 2 years she got a playmate,
Snoopy, an abricot Mastiff. But Alcor liked it much more to be lazy and she didn t
play that much with Snoopy, whereas Snoopy likes to swim and to run after a ball.
Because of that we decided to buy a third Mastiff, Mailo, she was fawn. We didn t
want that Snoopy should be on her own when Alcor wasn t there anymore. Alcor almost
reached 8 years. Then it felt that 2 Mastiffs isn t that much and we missed Alcor
very much so we bought a male, Tycho. After that we got another bitch, Kita, there
wasn t enough place to breed with her, so we got her, since she was meant to breed
with. Well 3 or 4, it doesn t matter. Unfortunately Mailo got ample 5 years and
there were 3 left again.
But in February we finally got to the point that Kita
could mate with an American male living in Denmark. From this litter only 3 puppies
survived and then it is really hard to sell all of them, thus we kept one male (Ursus) and
one female (Raika), now we have 5 Mastiffs.
Snoopy became almost 10 years old. We would like to have an abricot bitch again,
that is Lento, we imported her from Finland.
From the litter of Raika and Tycho we kept Lady, we were very happy that we kept her,
because we lost Raika by eating stones.
After that it was Lento and Ursus their turn for a litter. We kept Karhu, he is a special boy,
because he has long hair, a so called fluffy Mastiff. We placed his brother Hertog, that we could show him.
He is already Dutch Youthchampion, Dutch Champion and International Champion he also has been placed in the Group twice,
a 2nd and 6th place. With this 2nd place he qualified for "Dog of the Year show".
After trying hard, we finally got Lady pregnant, but there was only one, a male. What will you do?
Jaguar is his name, now 4 years old, growing up on his own and bottle fed, one can't do anything else
than keeping him.
After that, Lento got her last litter, litter K. We kept Kirsti, who we called Fluffy, since she is a fluffy, she was born
the 15th of October 2014. She gave us a very nice litter with 9 puppies the 22nd of March 2017, but she didn't wake up. Her heart stopped and her
puppies were bottle fed. Of course one stayed with us: Laga.
Meanwhile we have lost Tycho 13 years and 1 month, Kita 10 years, Ursus 8 years and Fluffy almost 2 yeras old.
Besides Tycho and Fluffy we also had to say goodbye to Lento and Lady, both had a incurable disease.
Hertog and Karhu, both 6 years, Jaguar 4 years and Laga 10 months old did remain.
In December 2017 Eliska and Lareyna came to live with us. Two bitches respectively 3 years and 2 years old, from Czech Republic and France.
Because of sad circumstances they had to be replaced, while they were bought to breed with. Since we recently had lost 2 bitches and Laga could have
some more education we could give those 2 girls a new home. In the spirit of their previous owners we will try to have soms nice puppies from them.
It is a lovely property which we enjoy very much. They have enough space and are
living in the barn, from where they can go inside and outside the whole day and free to go.
Meanwhile we have had 16 Mastiffs and all of them were equally beloved. So infectious is a Mastiff.
18-1-2018
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