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2 unusual facts about Tibetan Mastiff


The Tibetan Dog

In this film, a young boy named Tenzing leaves for Tibet after his mother passes away to live with his Father in the prairies and encounters a true friend in form of a golden Tibetan Mastiff.

Tibetan Mastiff

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


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.


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