Mastiff-Sighthound-cross

[broadmouth 0]

i have an english mastiff and he is pretty much old school in temperament. he is not people friendly when it comes to strangers, he has a very distrustful and reserved attitude. so he is a real deal guard dog!

i like the way he is, but i intend to breed him to another breed next time.

my goal is to keep his distrustful attitude for the offspring, but to get some prey drive, so that the offspring could catch a boar, or lets say if it is fast enough, to have the right attitude also for boar hunting.

we all know that the great dane aka german mastiff was a dog like i have described it right now. it is a mastiff x sighthound cross and used to be a boar hunter as well as a guard dog.

on another board half a year ago, they told me forget it. if you want a dog that can hunt and is a great guard dog and also human aggressive, get a bully kutta.

i only know the bully kutta as a fighting dog and doubt it is the perfect hunter and guard dog.

my first thought was to breed my EM to a greyhound, but then i thought an american staghound is a tougher in fighting large game, as well as an australian staghound or kangaroo dog.

with said that i would like to get a very good guard dog in my offspring as i admire my EM for that, but would like to add a tough prey driven dog.

the result has not to be a top hunter, as i guess the dog will be too heavy, but it should have good amount of prey drive added by a tough hound and still be a large dog with the "unfriendly/distrustful" attitude towards strangers.

i would appreciate advice from you!

some people told me only an apbt could add all this, but then i would have the stocky and boring swinford cross and that's not what i am looking for, as i think hounds can be very tough as well!

so please just tell me which breed could exactly make such an F1 cross

kind regards and thanks in advance

[broadmouth 0]

p.s. i have heard of boerboel sighthound crosses, so maybe it could work with an EM too.

[broadmouth 0]

so which pain resistant & tough sighthound would you suggest for a cross ?

[mick 7]

Looks a nice dog

And if hes asgood as you say

id be looking for another EM with the same temperament

to put him over and breed some decent EM as theres not

alot of decent ones about

Mick..

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i agree with mick get anothe english mastiff and mate them if you want a deul perpose dog with those quilities get and alaunt [ running masstiff] i have 3 and they do the job just fine

[broadmouth 0]

i agree with mick get anothe english mastiff and mate them if you want a deul perpose dog with those quilities get and alaunt [ running masstiff] i have 3 and they do the job just fine

 

 

yes, mate i have also thought about getting another EM, to rpoduce some more proper EMs as they are rare nowadays.

i wanted to try something out, with said that i wanted to try to get a big dog with the same attitude my dog has, but to add prey drive.

p.s. with alaunt, do you mean the "plummer alaunt" (the one that is a greyhound x bullmastiff x ebt cross) so do they have good guarding instinct?

i am asking, because the web is full of dogs getting called alaunt. american alaunt, plummer alaunt etc.

Edited December 15, 2009 by broadmouth

[broadmouth 0]

Looks a nice dog

And if hes asgood as you say

id be looking for another EM with the same temperament

to put him over and breed some decent EM as theres not

alot of decent ones about

Mick..

 

 

you are right, that's also a good idea, as todays mastiffs are the most ruined breeds!

p.s. two nice dogs in your avator.

[broadmouth 0]

so which pain resistant & tough sighthound would you suggest for a cross ?

 

 

 

this has gotta be a joke......

 

why a joke???????????????????

because a mastiff has to be an overdone, fat dog with a lot of useless skin hanging down each and everywhere?

i am glad that i don't own such a modern show crap mastiff!

[sid the kid 0]

i have an english mastiff and he is pretty much old school in temperament. he is not people friendly when it comes to strangers, he has a very distrustful and reserved attitude. so he is a real deal guard dog!

i like the way he is, but i intend to breed him to another breed next time.

my goal is to keep his distrustful attitude for the offspring, but to get some prey drive, so that the offspring could catch a boar, or lets say if it is fast enough, to have the right attitude also for boar hunting.

we all know that the great dane aka german mastiff was a dog like i have described it right now. it is a mastiff x sighthound cross and used to be a boar hunter as well as a guard dog.

on another board half a year ago, they told me forget it. if you want a dog that can hunt and is a great guard dog and also human aggressive, get a bully kutta.

i only know the bully kutta as a fighting dog and doubt it is the perfect hunter and guard dog.

my first thought was to breed my EM to a greyhound, but then i thought an american staghound is a tougher in fighting large game, as well as an australian staghound or kangaroo dog.

with said that i would like to get a very good guard dog in my offspring as i admire my EM for that, but would like to add a tough prey driven dog.

the result has not to be a top hunter, as i guess the dog will be too heavy, but it should have good amount of prey drive added by a tough hound and still be a large dog with the "unfriendly/distrustful" attitude towards strangers.

i would appreciate advice from you!

some people told me only an apbt could add all this, but then i would have the stocky and boring swinford cross and that's not what i am looking for, as i think hounds can be very tough as well!

so please just tell me which breed could exactly make such an F1 cross

kind regards and thanks in advance

[sid the kid 0]

looks could kill he would