Anchor R & M English Mastiffs & French Bulldogs
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We breed QUALITY English Mastiffs!
* AKC Registered, Champion Pedigrees
* All puppies raised in our home; well socialized
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I was first introduced to this breed over 20 yrs ago. My first job working with Dogs, professionally, was as a Boarding Kennel Manager in 1995. My first day on the job, I drove up, parked my car, turned around and there were these GIANT BEASTS staring at me. I was scared to DEATH!! I had never met a Mastiff; I didn’t even know they EXISTED!! My new Boss laughed at me, told me they were harmless and introduced me to my new Position. I couldn’t quit staring at them out of the corner of my eye all day...wandering around her yard and in and out of her house. I remember she had two little girls, and they would wander in and out of their play yard- and the dogs, you could tell, were THEIRS. They laid their heads on them and read books, the dogs laid next to them wherever they went in the yard. They knew their job, and they took it VERY seriously.
But those Mastiffs weren’t who stole my whole heart.
There was a Mastiff in one of the Kennel Runs. Paxton. He was thin, and scared, and older. I asked the Boss what his story was. He was a Rescue. He was discarded. He had trust issues, and nobody wanted to work with a 200 pound dog that was scared of it’s own shadow and likely unpredictable from the trauma he had endured in his lifetime. HE is the one who showed me what True Mastiff heart was really about. Every day I went in to work and I looked forward to talking to Paxton. I would lay his food bowl down gently...talk to him in the softest voice that I could...and wished he would give me the time of day and be-friend me. I NEEDED him to be-friend me. I needed him to have his faith in humans restored. It broke my heart to see him this way... Then one day as I laid his food down, he walked over and sniffed my hand. That was as close as he had ever gotten to me, or anyone, in a very long time...I immediately retracted, because, well, it scared the crap out of me!! He had never growled or made any motion to be ugly. But I didn’t know what his new intentions were! I was a little more aware the next day. Went to feed him just HOPING for another chance for a sniff...or maybe even a PET!! But alas he was back to cowering in the corner...waiting until I was long gone about my duties to eat... But despite all of his distrust, he never once so much as looked at me with any sort of threat in his eyes...
This went on for the next few months. This back and forth. And eventually Paxton did come around. He let me pet him. Give him little snugs...take him out of his Kennel Run, and walk the property with me. Eventually that big ol’ heart of his was reminded that we aren’t all that bad. And he finally found his renewed Trust in people, and was finally Adopted out to an older woman who had been boarding her Bull Mastiff with my Employer for years, and had lost him to old age. He was a perfect fit for her, and her for him :)
