[lit-ideas] Re: Kant's Mastiffs
- From: "Julie Krueger" <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 19:50:33 -0500
Hmmm.....here's a link to a pic of the mastiffs my acquaintance has --
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.breederretriever.com/photopost/data/520/medium/mastiff1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.breederretriever.com/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/128&h=300&w=400&sz=19&hl=en&start=8&sig2=CtMG3T5OH0qC195WRXH5lA&tbnid=BXg6D-lcvGNpSM:&tbnh=93&tbnw=124&ei=lG-2RpuuC57UeuH7pK0F&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmastiff%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG
I wasn't able to access the link you sent, Judy -- it simply kept saying
page not found...
Julie Krueger
wondering now how bulldogs, mastiffs, and pit bulls are inter-related.
On 8/5/07, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > A Bullmastiff is an ancient cross between the English Mastiff, like
> > the one you saw, and a Bulldog. It isn't supposed to weigh 200
> > pounds as one of Rhames Bullmastiff's does but only 130 pounds. It
> > isn't supposed to be as high at the withers as an English Mastiff.
> > It was developed to knock a poacher down and hold him for the
> > game keeper.
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> 'English Mastiff' is another name for a plain old Mastiff, which is,
> as Lawrence says, a bit larger than a Bullmastiff. (The origin of the
> English Mastiff is simply 'antiquity,' while Bullmastiffs date only from
> the 1800s.) Any Bullmastiff that weighs 200 lbs. should go on a
> diet. There are numerous mastiffs: French, Argentine, Brazilian,
> Spanish, and Neapolitan (Mastino Neapolitano); most of them were bred
> for guarding, hunting, or dog fighting. The Encyclopedia of the Dog
> says that the Neapolitano is a 'superb drooler.'
>
> Rhames is said to have Bullmastiffs, and a Brazilian Mastiff (Fila
> Brasileiro), of which he is especially fond because these dogs had been
> 'slave catchers'; he is embracing this dog, 'Kong,' at
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> http://www.usmagazine.com/second_ving_rhames_pos
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> The dogs that attacked and killed Diane Whipple outside her San
> Francisco apartment in 2001 were initially described as Mastiffs,
> Bullmastiffs, and English Mastiffs. They turned out to be Preso
> Canerios, 'Canary Island Dogs,' although one site says that they were
> a 'rare cross' between Presos and Bullmastiffs. Reporters and the
> police are seldom dog experts, and often dog owners are not themselves
> sure of which breeds they own.
>
> Kant always wanted a dog but he believed the leash laws in Königsberg
> denied dogs their autonomy and settled for a parakeet.
>
> Robert Paul
> and the aging Terriers
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