I've never seen a French Mastiff before. Concerning size - how much does Sarge weigh? How about Sadie? Are Sarge and Sadie best friends? Last question (I promise) - how did you end up getting French Mastiffs? I'm just curious since I've never heard of this breed before seeing your adorable Sarge.
Sadie is basically as big as she will get, she fluctuates between 110 lbs and 120 lbs (depending on how picky an eater she is being that week), Sarge is still a baby at only 15 months old so he still has over a year and a half left to grow, he weighs around 105 now, will probably end up being 140 to 170 lbs full grown. (The pic of him that you see is around 6 months old)Sarge and Sadie are a breeding pair, Sadie is preggers with her first (and maybe last) litter right now, due in about 10 days. I say it may be her last because my husband is going crazy stressing over her health and how she will fare after giving birth (She's his best friend) so I don't know if he can take her ever getting pregnant again! Haha Sadie was our first French Mastiff, she's older and wiser than Sarge. When we first got Sarge Sadie looked after him and acted like his mom (I know, makes the "breeding pair" sound disgusting now! Haha) We used to have an English Mastiff that was our whole world and he died of old age. About a year later we finally started looking for another dog but my husband could not even consider another English Mastiff because he said that would be like trying to replace Duke. We really like the personality/behavior traits of the mastiffs, so we chose French Mastiffs. They're not very common yet but are quickly gaining popularity as a family pet since they're so well-behaved, easy to train, good with kids, etc. A quick factoid, then I'll shut up: Adolf Hitler ordered that all Dogue de Bordeaux be killed on sight because of their guarding devotion to their families, and there were three breeding pairs left after World War II. This is why they're still somewhat rare but finally beginning to gain popularity. Sadie is one of only a handful of fully AKC registered females of breeding age in the U.S. right now. Many have AKC-FSS registration, but not full AKC status.