Originally Posted by
Jmick
Tell me about it, my dad has mastiffs and over all they are great with the kids...seems like they know how big they are and try to be as careful as they can. Would get one but my wife thinks it's too big so I'd like to get a large dog but not 200+lbs. So, we are considering bull mastiff, dane, bloodhound and possibly a bernard.
We have a problem with our mastiff, but it does not involve the kids. Our mastiff is very dog aggressive, although she is great with people. The nice thing about mastiffs is the short hair. Danes are goods dogs... somewhat high energy for the giant breeds but great dogs. With a saint, you're going to generally have a lot of hair, (although mine's a short haired saint, not very common). But I will tell you that Saint Bernard puppies are the cutest puppies in the world. Good luck.