This is BOSSHOSS! I cannot say enough about this dog. He is everything this breed should be and then some! This is the smartest, the most powerful, most loyal, most affectionate (only with me) creature I have ever known! I do not even think of him as a dog. 28 In. tall, 195 pounds of love and protection! The absolute pinnacle of the breed in my opinion. I love this guy more than my own life and count my blessings with every day he is with me...

I am not a breeder, just a man that has been and still is blessed with 5 awesome examples of this rare and ancient breed. I would like to say that I do not agree with the current trend of breeding tall, thin and non protective dogs instead of honoring the old standard.

Someone once said "I wish I was the person my dog thinks I am"! After having lived with these perfect angels for the better part of my life I have to say that "I wish I was the person my dog is"!

Why are short dogs more desirable?

A very wise old italian breeder once told me "The most powerful dogs have the least sunlight underneath them". It is true that a dog 28 inches at the shoulder weighing 180 pounds would hopelessly overpower a dog 32 inches tall and of equal weight... The lower your center of gravity, the more leverage you have... It is this combination of low center of gravity and ancient genes that make these dogs pound for pound the most powerful creature that ever walked the earth.

This is ABADDON! The biggest dog I have ever seen or heard of! Many claim to have 200 pound dogs but when you actually see them in person they are rarely over 175 pounds...

This dog on who's huge paws Rome was built, this dog which enabled Alexander the Great to conquer the known world is truly the dog we still have today. Legend tells us that it was our sad faced friend that used to guard the entrances to heaven and hell being feared by physical and spiritual beings alike. It was him that ispired the creation of the first Gargoyles and spawned the legend of the werewolf. Legend has it that gods created them in pre history by crossing huge mastiffs and tigers...

Respect and appreciate their power and abillity BUT LOVE THEIR HEARTS!

Some will yell "IMPOSSIBLE"! There could never be a tiger/mastiff cross! To those I would like to say that it is "impossible"for the pyramids to have been built in perfect alignment thousands of years ago... It is "impossible" by all laws of physics for the bumble bee to fly... And it is "impossible" for an old and dying being to make itself young again and yet this is exactly what happens in a society of bees when on the rare occasion a new queen is born before the old one dies... The second this happens their society is split in half and old and dying bees become genetically young again and leave with the new queen to start a new society and live another full life.

So let us not yell "impossible" when legends try to teach us something... Instead realize that there is more between heaven and earth than we will ever know or understand.

This is a SOFTBALL next to Abaddon's paw! With his toes tightly closed he measures a staggering 6 1/2 In. across (not around!) the paw!

On this day I was in the kittchen with the door closed and BOSSHOSS sniffed it (I am not kidding) too intensely...

These dogs are both. If you don't understand the fighter in them you're not able to keep others safe and if you don't understand their need for love and affection, you're not worthy of their company!