nail trail. How are they with kids?
They are usually very tolerant with kids, and will take a lot of abuse. One kid we have never seen before (the friend of a friend of our son’s) came to visit. He weighed less than half as much as our dog. When he came in, he looked at our dog and said ‘I’m afraid of big dogs’. We reassured him, and left the dog free, and watched. By the time the kid (of another racial/ethnic background BTW which can be a problem if the dog is not socialized) left, he was repeating ‘I like that dog’. The key is supervision. The main danger is if the dog thinks the strange kid is attacking. This can happen when kids play and the bullmastiff may try to protect. A minor danger is that the dog may knock the kid down (or step on them). (VERY easy for your bullmastiff to do in play or accidentally.) My son would occasionally go to a small enclosed playground/park with a few of his friends and play run away from the big dog. The bullmastiff would chase them, trip them and lick them when they were on the ground
