hi maxi, very nice to find someone interested abt tht bree too ,usually most of the dogs breeders here are interesting about the imported breeds, even tht they r not as adapted as the local dogs to our deffirents climats , and yes ur right, the algerian mastiff was developed by local people to protect their villages againstt big predators like the barbay lion and leopard,it explain why this breed almost desapeard short time after the two predators extiction , and other breeds like the sloughi wht is a jakal hunter breed continu to excite , it is very hard to find a pure blood algerian mastiff with the same original size actually, we can just find some mixed blood specimens , if we want to save this breed i guess we have to start a program of breeding to seelct the closest mixt breed speimens to the pure algerian mastiff, and use some kangal blood to get the original size ( algerian mastiff had kangal blood during the othoman presence in algeria ) im waiting to get a piece of land in algeria to start a kennel project, then i will start to gethere deffitent dogs from the local breeds , i will let u know if there is some news , salam my friend ;)