Our objective is to protect the future of our Mastiffs by expanding genetic diversity through integration of purebred Mastiffs with coats of non-standard color, imported bloodlines and other rare traits of historic reference in our standard breeding program preserving their past with the restoration of our founding Mastiff traits.

We embrace and nurture the diversity of cosmetic traits such as color and focus on sound structure fit to carry a giant breed dog.

Karis Defrange, pictured to the left, carries one black and tan allele (at) on the A locus. She also carries one copy of the saddle pattern allele. Karis' pedigree can be traced back to the Lyme Hall Mastiffs. Karis is also the 41st Great GrandDaughter of Speeler, mastiff registered with the AKC in the late 19th century as a black and tan.

Pied Mastiffs whelped from AKC registered Mastiffs are registerable with the American Kennel Club (AKC) on the full or the limited register at the discretion of the breeder just as any other Mastiff whelped from AKC registered Mastiffs. The parent breed club is the governing body that determines what colors options are available on AKC registration documents for the Mastiff.

Mastiff's with long coats (also known as fluffy) have been present in the breed even before it was established by clubs and fanciers, long before 'post war' restoration and late 20th century alleged crosses. Though the fluffy coat is not standard and considered a fault in the breed standard, we believe that eliminating this historic trait may be detrimental to the breed. We plan to continue to breed long coat carriers and maybe even a long coat 'fluffy' if the right pup comes along in effort to preserve this heritage mastiff trait along with the diversity this haplotype can bring to the gene pool.

We find pockets of diversity to strengthen the Mastiff gene pool in rare haplotypes that have an historic reference in literature and art for the breed. We were surprised by 3 pups presenting rear dew claws in our April 2015 Diversity litter: JOSEPH'S BEST KEPT SECRET X WOLFE CREEKS BOSS HOSS. In the early years 1820's till the turn of the century the rear dewclaw or fifth toe was considered to be a sign of purity in the Mastiff, indicative of great size. In the 1930's we find writings that indicate about half of all mastiffs whelped during that time had the rear dews. It seems that the fifth toe/rear dew declined after the second World War, we found little documentation about this trait in the post war period.

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