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Re: AKC English Mastiff Puppy, Exceptional Potential & Background

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From: HeIsTheWay
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 1997 00:00
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Laurie Adams (Mother Mastiff) wrote:
> 
> Have you been looking for a truly exceptional mastiff puppy to raise
> and love and train and show?  That's what I have been trying to
> produce, using the latest medical tests, research, and determination
> to produce the best.
> 
> Sixteen years of breeding mastiffs and I have finally produced a puppy
> even BETTER than I dared to hope for!  I was trying to achieve it ALL,
> 
> SHOW potential, OBEDIENCE potential, capability for other TRAINING,
> fabulous PEDIGREE, ENGLISH lines, and more TESTED RELATIVES
> than just about any mastiff pup available in the world. Most breeders,
> even the bigtime ones, only go for about two or three of the above,
> not ALL of them!
> 
> The one thing I wasn't trying for was a dog BIGGER than normal!  But I
> got it all INCLUDING the super size.  (The size came from the famous
> Eng. CH Parcwood W. Bear, Esq., who is tripled up in the pedigree....)
> 
> This puppy is a HUGE brindle boy, bright and playful, with a super-
> sweet, gentle temperament and great structure.  Since he was
> born, he's been consistently 20-25% larger than his normal-sized
> brother and sister, who stay pretty consistent with each other. His
> size isn't based on a big belly either, he is LEAN, and all his weight
> is in his tall, long frame and head.  He will simply be a much larger
> than average Gentle Giant.
> 
> He did very well on the Volhard Puppy Aptitude Test and was CERF
> perfect at 7 weeks (therefore has no hidden PPM to pass on).
> 
> So far as I can determine, this is the FIRST pup that is not only
> HUGE, but has an exceptional number of fully HEALTH TESTED
> relatives, AND is 3/4 ENGLISH, linebred on Farnaby, the oldest
> continuous mastiff kennel in the world today, and top winners for
> many decades in England.  Farnaby dogs are behind the best-
> known mastiff kennels in England, Australia, and other parts of
> the world.  There is NO line that has won more, is older, or is
> better respected in the breed, anywhere in the world.
> 
> Mom, grandpa, and auntie were imported from Mrs. Baxter in England,
> most senior breeder-judge of mastiffs in the world, and author of two
> definitive books on the breed.  Dad is an apricot CH in Florida, mom
> isn't shown (I am unable to show, and can't bear to let her go long
> enough for a circuit.  Nor will I spend money on a handler when the
> money could go instead to medical tests and better food).  Both
> parents are great movers.  Dad finished easily when young: the half-
> Farnaby dogs who are his littermates and half siblings have done very
> well in conformation and obedience, and a number are CGC, TDI and
> even work as therapy dogs.
> 
> Grandpa, who is also this boy's uncle, was one of the first 5-STAR
> mastiffs in the world (proof of passing all then-available health
> tests were provided to an independent organization for verification)
> and the FIRST English import in the USA to not only be fully tested
> but to pass ALL tests put to him.  (This pup's mom was the second.)
> 
> Grandpa worked as a therapy dog in a practice for very young disturbed
> and autistic kids, for several years.  Mom's mother won Veteran Bitch
> at Cruft's this year (England's or perhaps the world's biggest and
> oldest dog show).  There are too many other big winners in the family
> to list them all.
> 
> Grandpa's litter brother and sister have between them been Mastiff of
> the Year in England the last 3 years.  Many of the relatives close in
> on the pedigree are shown in "The Complete Mastiff" and "The History
> and Management of the Mastiff".  Their close ancestors' outstanding
> hip scores are published in "Grandeur and Good Nature."  Very few
> mastiffs have this much information available in terms of health and
> show careers, or what the relatives look like, not even the purely
> American lines that would be much easier to document!
> 
> BOTH parents OFA Good, OFA Elbows Clear, OFA Patellas Clear, vWD
> and Thyroid Normal, CERF Clear, and mom and grandpa are also OFA
> Heart Certified Clear, dad's heart test is pending.  Many Therapy Dogs
> in the family, it's a tradition in the making!
> 
> To a carefully selected home where this giant softie will be the heart
> of the home, living indoors, having a nice fenced yard, guaranteed to
> go to classes and be shown as much as appropriate (it's HIS life, he's
> gotta enjoy it....) and where he will be fully tested.
> 
> References required.    $3,500 firm to appropriate home only.
> 
> Check out my home page for puppy pictures, and pictures of the family,
> as well as more information about the line.  I am a longtime serious
> breeder, health/genetics researcher and artist, who has been OFA'ing
> for over 14 years, and has been one of the first and foremost to test
> my mastiffs for each new test that eventually gets accepted.  Very few
> breeders try even HALF this hard, but I don't want to breed except to
> improve.
> 
> Serious inquiries only.
> 
> http://www.employees.org/~mastiffsHope you don't get flamed like the person trying to sell the English 
Bulldogs!  Happy selling!
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From: HeIsTheWay <farward@flash.net>
Subject: Re: AKC English Mastiff Puppy, Exceptional Potential & Background
Date: 1997/08/06
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