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unusual facts about Mastiff


Emerson da Conceição

Emerson became first-choice from his third season onwards, and contributed with 20 league matches in 2010–11, as Les Dogues won their first national championship in 57 years.


Alpine Mastiff

M.B.Wynn wrote, "In 1829 a vast light brindle dog of the old Alpine mastiff breed, named L'Ami, was brought from the convent of Great St. Bernard, and exhibited in London and Liverpool as the largest dog in England." William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, is believed to have bred Alpine Mastiffs at Chatsworth House.

Ethel Teare

Some Romance, also produced by Kalem, featured Teare and her mastiff.

Gaddi Kutta

The Gaddi is thought to have been developed by the Asur King Mahidant of Meerut by crossing the wild dingo-like hounds (these dingo type dogs are not dholes but are a type of wild mastiff type of pariahs, descended from the massive Hyrcanian dogs), found in the Jamuna Khader region of India, with the Sha-Khyi variety or fighting line of Tibetan Mastiffs for hunting purposes.

Henry Bolckow

Bolckow's Mastiff, Lady Marton (former resident of the estate, but sold because of her hunting proclivities to breeder George Cook) became one of the foundation bitches of the modern breed.

Land Rover Wolf

Following a spate of incidents, there has been concern that the unarmoured nature of the Wolf exposes the crews to excessive danger, and they are being supplemented by more heavily armoured vehicles such as the Vector and Mastiff Protected Patrol Vehicles.

Molosser

Nineteenth-century army veterinarian and entomologist Jean Pierre Mégnin theorized there were four basic canine races based on his observation of their different skull structures: Lupoides (Spitz), Braccoides (scenthounds), Graioides (sighthounds), and Molossoides (mountain dogs, mastiff breeds and even Pugs).

Neapolitan Mastiff

Fang from the Harry Potter films (in the books, Fang is a boarhound, an old term for a Great Dane, while in the films he is a Neapolitan Mastiff).

New Guinea free-tailed bat

The New Guinea free-tailed bat (Tadarida kuboriensis, sometimes designated the New Guinea mastiff bat), is an extant species of free-tailed bat that inhabits the Chimbu highlands of Papua New Guinea.

Tadiran Mastiff

Three generations of the Mastiff developed by Tadiran were in operational use by the IDF performing numerous operational missions, the most well known of them was flown during the first Lebanon war when Yasser Arafat was caught by the Mastiff video camera.

The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

A great mastiff was kept on the property, and always kept hungry.

Tibetan Mastiff

Mouse, of The Dresden Files, is a Tibetan Mastiff, or as Harry Dresden calls him, a "West Highland Dogasaurus".


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