English Mastiff story.?

My 15 month 140lb English Mastiff is usually a coward and loves all people, even strangers. I never thought he would protect us. We recently moved and had the cable people installing cable. My wife was home alone with the mastiff when the cable was being installed. When the first cable guy got to the house the mastiff refused to leave my wifes side, but wasn't bothering the cable guy, so my wife left the dog inside. The cable guy asked if another cable guy could come meet him at our house so they could go to lunch after the job was done. When the second cable guy showed up he didn't knock, he just walked in the house like he owned it and started to walk towards my wife. Our mastiff jumped on the guy and wrapped his arms around the cable guys kneck and penned him against a wall, and put his nose right in the cable guys face. He never groweled are barked and when my wife pulled him off he was fine. Does anybody else have similar stories about there Mastiff.

I have a bull-mastiff
and the mastiff part it's their instinct to jump on the intruder but not mull or bite the intruder.

my bullmastifff doesn't seem like it would hurt a fly, but when i is time to work, he will, and he actually did the same thing to the meter reader! We got him off him and they were both fine.

My great dane does that sort of thing (though my boy is trained for guarding/protection) as a simple sign of dominance and 'Hey! MY HOUSE! Who the hell are you?!'.

=) Gotta love giant breeds. Poor cable guy, though.

i dont have a story like that but my time daschaund would do something like that even if she wasnt told to, she is very gentle but can be very protective.

Cable guy made ta serious mistake by entering your home unannounced. He is lucky that your dog did not become aggressive - but the dog would have been in the right. Since the second cable guy came in without your wife's permission (ie her letting him in) - the dog felt that he was intruding on your terroritory in which the dog deems to protect.

Wow, thats great, but you'd wanna be carfefull, people just love to sue.
(especially if you are American)

My mother was in the back garden one night wearing a big jacket, pulling some branches off, or doing something with the trees, and my dog did not recognise her. (he's a 19 week old yugoslavian lined Doberman) He kept barking and barking at her, and she said to him "hello Murdock, come on, good boy", but he could not see her well and still did not believe it was her.
Then he ran over to her and started whimpering and being submissive like as if to say "Oh I'm so sorry, I didn't know it was you!"
I think if he was older and that was a stranger, the guy would have been in trouble!

Our cousins have one and he is just as protective. He is not noisy about it either. That dog can be on you before you know it when it looks like you are making a fast move toward any of the family members. Otherwise he is a gentle dog.
On the other hand, we have a rottie who is as gentle as a lamb to us but when strangers appear it's another story. You know when he is ready to jump someone. He isn't quiet about it. We have to keep him in a fence on one acre property.

My sister-in-law's mastiff did something very similar. She was home alone and was getting a packaged delivered to her home by UPS. He came to the door and went to put the package inside her garage door and the dog grabbed his hand in her mouth and held him there. She wasn't clamping hard, just held him. As he tried to take his hand away, she would clamp down alittle harder. The UPS dude said she wasn't hurting his hand, he was afraid to move. He had to call his supervisor on his phone and they had to call my sister in law to let them know the dog had the driver outside. As soon as she came outside, the dog let him go. Weird.

Great instincts!!!

i have a very protective weimaraner nobody comes in our yard lol

NEVER MISTAKE THAT MASTIFF ! As far as the former part of your story; may I ask you a question in turn - Are gentleman coward just because they respect and apparently look peaceloving? Dogs including the mastiff has a strong sense of feeling the vibes of their mentors. In the first incident, it allowed the cableman because he did not barged into your house, which was not disapproved, and was a welcome signal for the mastiff unlike the other one, which you detested. Hats off to your mastiff; it was quick-witted to know that he had to discourage the other one. I would rather say the cableman was a lucky one if you must be aware what the bull mastiff did to the staff of a film star and which was in the news recently. Your mastiff is definitely not a COWARD as you initially though it to be.

I helped put my neighbours English Mastiff in the backyard one day because he got out and someone had rang the pound, the dog catcher was trying to get the noose thing aroung Izac's neck and he was **** scared of Isac, he tried to tell me he was a DANGEROUS DOG, I laughed at him, told him "you would be upset if someone tried to put that thing round your neck" I then said "Isac IN" he went into the backyard I rubbed his belly, and the dog catcher just gazed at me as if to say "What the....." It was priceless!

I Don't have a Mastiff but I have a Staffy x Border Collie and he is very protective of all our family members, so is my Doberman x Egyption Hound. Sounds like your boy did a good job! Why would someone just walk in without knocking anyway? His fault! LOL, Would've been funny to see, I bet he needed a change of underwear when he left. Maybe that'll teach him to knock in future. Your wife and you are very lucky people to have such a loving and protective baby! My dogs were witness to me getting beaten up by my ex boyfriend a couple of years ago and since then if someone try's to even PRETEND to hit me they will stare them down and growl a bit as if to say BACK OFF, dogs are meant to be our protectors, our loyal best friends and sounds like you have a real good one there.

What happened is really quite simple. He wasn't invited in by the Leader (your wife) and therefore he is potention Danger.