Mountaineer Mastiffs

Brutus

Brutus pictured at 4 years old
I generally keep this pic up as his main photo because this is a very Brutus face. He makes this sweet smile a lot.

I bought Brutus as a puppy and he's been here with us ever since. As he grew up, I decided that he was not quite what I considered breeding quality and had him neutered. (Although you'd never know it by the way he always got fired up over the ladies. )

He has nice height, a big body, but a somewhat lighter bone structure than the mastiffs that I bred. But he is everything that you could ever want in a mastiff for a pet. He's just a great guy, with a great temperament. He is currently 10 years old. Health wise he is still doing great. He has some mild arthritis in one leg (at the hock) where he injured it as a puppy. When he was very young he was in my lap on a recliner and he suddenly jumped from my lap and his leg fell into a slender space between the footrest and a bar that ran between the footrest and the seat. It was horrible. He screamed and screamed and I could not reach him (his body had cleared the footrest, only his leg remained in the hole. If I tried to get up to get to him the bar collapsed on his leg. It only lasted a few seconds, but it felt like an eternity till we got him loose. He didn't break anything, and he was well checked out by the vet. And he never had any trouble with the leg except when he'd been running a great deal, then he would favor that spot a little. Now that he is older, he has some arthritis in that spot. But it still isn't too big of an issue for him, unless he's been running a lot. But that is why I was always so adamant about warning people about recliners!

Brutus loves guns. I'm not sure why. But he goes bananas over a gunshot. He loves it. He will walk right through a chain link fence (with no difficulty whatsoever) to get to the sound of a gun. Which can make hunting season around here rather interesting. Let's just say we've done lots of patchwork to the fence over the years. LOL

Brutus is a simply great dog. He has been a wonderful member of our family for many years and we love him so very much.

Brutus' Pedigree

Sir Haddox de Brut	Sir Thor	Sir Bandit of Darla Ct.	Campbell's Greco Magnum Max	Greco's Tristan Daniel
				Greco's Little Miss Ladybug
			Campbell's Chelsie Roxanne	Greco's Hollesley Rogue
				Greco's Falmorehall Amy
		Underwood's Dixie	Sir Leo Brutus	Key's King David
				Key's Lady Bathsheba
			Stewart's Abagale	Noble Hy Icarus
				Von Killion's Anna Deer
	Panhandle Pride Abbott's Lady Girl	Orion's Roll Over Beethoven	Bollo's Maxx A Mil's Bear	Lionsire Iron Hills Bollo
				Deer Run Willow of Rariety
			Lyons Lair Esther X-On	Parkerhaus Midnight Magic
				Visa Gold on Register
		Ke'To Von Gunters Grove	Banyon's Spirit of Butkus	Brutis Sprit of Banyon
				Luckie Jewel Tabatha
			TJ's Terminator	The Prince of Perigen
				Tiger Devil of Greenwood

Younger photos of Brutus:

Sir Haddox de Brut

Brutus on his 10th Birthday:

Brutus getting some snuggles on his 10th birthday.

Brutus on his 10th birthday, giving me five over Spike's back.