Which mastiff breeds are protective, but can be trained to accept visitors?

[swanguy7]

They're a fairly popular breed, which is a large part of the media problem. You don't hear as much in the media about the TM's aggressive side, because they're not as popular (ThankYouGod). And as always media has a HUGE tendency to get things wrong, and write things as sensationally as possible.....I pretty much always take the media reports with a grain of salt, cause I've seen to many cases where they screwed up the facts massively.

Actually I have heard of the tm but never looked it up I'm about to google tm and see it's temprement etc .

 

[swanguy7]

not what I expected hard to believe it's even a dog .

 

[Doggyhelpplease]

A lot of the pictures of the aggressive males that first show up when googled are photoshopped or mixed messes. You get a more accurate picture if you google real breeders or type in female TM since they don't get photoshopped as much swanguy7,. Their temperament is one of the harder or more aloof ones of the mastiffs types in general though as you probably read but there are spectrum for all breeds.

 

[ruthcatrin]

not what I expected hard to believe it's even a dog .

Well since at least one of the dog's pictured ISN'T a TM, and at least a couple of the others are probly mixes (if not totally photoshopped) being passed off by Chinese breeders as TMs....

Why are you using wikipedia as a source?? Never mind that you're derailing someone else's thread....

 

[swanguy7]

U don't recommend wik? Is these not tm? I just googled for tm and this was images

 

[ruthcatrin]

U don't recommend wik? Is these not tm? I just googled for tm and this was images

Wikipedia is notoriously inaccurate.......and yah, no. Nor Google accurate, since all they do is go by the labels that other people put on pictures......

 

[swanguy7]

A lot of the pictures of the aggressive males that first show up when googled are photoshopped or mixed messes. You get a more accurate picture if you google real breeders or type in female TM since they don't get photoshopped as much swanguy7,. Their temperament is one of the harder or more aloof ones of the mastiffs types in general though as you probably read but there are spectrum for all breeds.

Well the ones in the pictures may attract wrong type of owners and to be honest they don't look like a house pet I would want

 

[swanguy7]

Wikipedia is notoriously inaccurate.......and yah, no. Nor Google accurate, since all they do is go by the labels that other people put on pictures......

So is this not what a tm looks like in pics I posted ? I'll try another site look them up I'm curious now

 

[ruthcatrin]

Have you tried Googling BMs that way? The results are a bit better, but in the first 20 lines of pictures you get at least one blatently photoshopped image, a couple Neo's, several DDBs......

How about instead of googling and getting a million horrible results you go hit the TM section here of people who've actually posted pictures of their dogs and actually ask the folks who own them, and while you're at it stop derailing someone else's thread.....

 

[broccolini]

Wikipedia is notoriously inaccurate.......and yah, no. Nor Google accurate, since all they do is go by the labels that other people put on pictures......

I don't know...

The one in front of the chain link fence looks just like Athena.

 

[ruthcatrin]

I don't know...

The one in front of the chain link fence looks just like Athena.

Athena's in better shape than that dog

 

[swanguy7]

theres a lot of different types of looks in them. And yes after reading a little on them they are not for most people .

 

[swanguy7]

Athena's in better shape than that dog

Thank Ruth I appreciate your knowledge I guess this is why most or atleast half if us cone to these forums