Korean Dosa Mastiff

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Korean Dosa Mastiff

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Other Names: Mee Kyun or DosaKorean Mastiff.

The Korean Dosa Mastiff’s coat is short, silky and shiny. Colors include chocolate, mahogany and red. A white patch on the chest is permissible.

The Korean Dosa Mastiff is dignified, easy going good natured, intelligent and loyal. The Dosa likes being with people. Be sure you are this dog's pack leader, providing plenty of daily mental and physical exercise to avoid separation anxiety. The objective in training this dog is to achieve pack leader status. It is a natural instinct for a dog to have an order in its pack. When we humans live with dogs, we become their pack. The entire pack cooperates under a single leader. Lines are clearly defined. You and all other humans MUST be higher up in the order than the dog. That is the only way your relationship can be a success. This gentle giant is sweet-natured, noble, majestic and friendly. It tends to 'lean' on its favorite people. It makes a huge lap dog. Excellent with other pets and children. Reserved with strangers. Supervision is required around small children as it may inadvertently step on them or knock them over. Proper human to canine communication is essential.

Height: Males 25.5 - 30 inches (64 - 76 cm) Females 23.5 - 27 inches (59 - 68 cm)
Weight: Males 160 - 185 pounds (72 - 84 kg) Females 145 - 165 pounds (65 - 74 kg)

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Korean Dosa Mastiff

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If you want a dog that’s both massive and rare, the Korean Dosa Mastiff will be perfect for you. These pups are absolute giants that are not widely known outside of their native South Korea.

These dogs are incredibly sweet and adorable, and they kind of resemble huge bloodhounds that are melting. They have loose skin, and it can sometimes seem that they can’t see due to all the wrinkles in their face.

Chances are that you’re not familiar with this breed, so if you’d like to learn more about these wonderful monstrosities, the guide below will fill you in on everything you need to know.

Full-grown Korean Dosa Mastiffs are extremely wrinkled, with loose skin around their neck and faces. As puppies, they seem to have even more loose skin — as if they were given their bodies second-hand and haven’t grown into them yet.

In fact, even calling them “puppies” feels a bit misleading, as these dogs are never small. Even at just a few months old, they’re already bigger than many other breeds will ever be.

Besides the ample skin folds, the biggest clues that reveal how large these dogs will eventually become are their ears and feet. Their ears drape down to well below their chin; they’re not quite as big as a Basset Hound’s, but close.

Those humongous paws can do quite a bit of damage even at an early age. These dogs require time to figure out their bodies, so expect to get accidentally stomped on quite a bit as they learn where all their individual pieces are at any time. Given that these dogs often weigh upward of 30 pounds within a few months of birth, those stomps can be quite painful indeed.

It’s impossible to stay mad at them, though. Besides being absolutely adorable, these puppies are completely guileless, so they’ll simply apologize with a few sloppy kisses, and you’ll immediately forgive them — simple as that.

Despite their ferocious appearance, the Korean Dosa Mastiff is a sweet-natured dog. They’re extremely loving toward their families and consider themselves to be lap dogs, so watch out when you sit on the couch.

They’re also welcoming toward strangers. You won’t have to worry about having guests over, as the dog will primarily be concerned with getting as much affection as possible from all the new people. Despite this, though, they make excellent guard dogs (would you mess with one of these pups?).

You would think that a dog this size would need a huge home, but they’re incredibly easygoing, with minimal exercise needs. They can take to apartment life or country living equally well.

They’re moderately intelligent, but it can be hard to adequately gauge their IQs due to their extreme laziness. They can be geniuses at getting out of work, though.

Given their Bloodhound DNA, you may have better results appealing to their intelligence via their noses rather than their eyes. That is to say, allowing them to sniff the tasty treat that you have for them will likely garner more compliance than merely showing it to them.

You might suspect that the Korean Dosa Mastiff is too dangerous to have around your family, given its fighting history and immense size. However, as long as they aren’t raised to fight, these dogs tend to be gentle giants.

They’re extremely patient with small children, but you should never leave them alone with your kids. That patience can run out eventually, so teach your little ones how to behave around dogs, and make sure they don’t pull their tails, step on their paws, or torment them in any way.

You do need to be careful, though, as these dogs can get exuberant and are as prone to zoomies as any other breed. That can be fun to watch, but it can end badly if your 185-pound dog ends up bowling over your 3-year-old.

These pups tend to be a little lazy, so if you prefer watching Netflix to going on long hikes in the woods, they’ll happily sit by your side (or more accurately, in your lap) while you binge-watch your favorite shows.

They’re more than capable of hanging with you on an adventure, though. They’re often used as working dogs, and while they’d prefer to take things easy, they have plenty of stamina when they need it.

As long as your Korean Dosa Mastiff is well-socialized, they’ll likely get along well with other dogs. However, they tend to try to dominate other animals, so you’ll need to watch out for that behavior to nip it in the bud.

They don’t have a particularly strong prey drive, which means they’ll often tolerate cats and other pets as well. However, proper socialization is key in this regard, and it’s usually better if the dog is introduced to the cat as a puppy.

These dogs don’t know their own size, so you need to make sure they don’t sit or lay on other animals by accident. They could seriously injure another pet without ever meaning to.

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Korean Dosa Mastiff - 145-185 pounds