Hello thx a lot for writing abt this wonderful breed, and for the nice pics, actually i was looking a lot in the internet of some pics of pure breed algerian mastifs fotos , but i couldn't find antone unfortenatly , i suggest u to visit the north west part of algeria too, i heard from a friend tht in some villages ( douar ) they still have big dogsfor guarding using the old way ( keeping them in the day, and releasing them in the night , they form herds wht protect the village ) flowing what my father ( he had one when he was young ) and some old person in Algeria said the pure blood Algerian mastiffs was much biger then the dogs in that pics , well, i want to ask u too about another breed of dogs, i used to see it a lot when i travel to the algerian desert , it’s this one u can see in this pic , i found it in a website, this foto was taken in tunisia , and that dogs looks to me like they have desert jakal blood , especialt the one in the right , see the short tail and the face ,,, did anyone know that breed ??? sorry for the bad english ;) [br][link={e_FILE}public/1287513063_18654_FT76611_chien_sahara_tunisie.jpg][img:width=500&height=333]{e_FILE}public/1287513063_18654_FT76611_chien_sahara_tunisie_.jpg">[/link][br]