THESE ARE SOME OF THE MASTIFFS IN OUR FAMILY

past, present and rescued

tank our first mastiff and brandon 18 mon     kianne and brandon about 8 months              momma

tank tonka brandon and kendell  jill at 5ish months and me      jodi                                                     spike

tank and me doing one of many tricks        tonka at 8 months                             kianne who is not allowed up there!! 8 months

kianne and angel about a year old

jill and mom on our birthday. kianne at girlscoutssonny and my niece madaline in september

                     Here is something that pretty much summs up the human likfe that lives with mastiffs!! Hope you enjoy!      

Today my husband demanded that he take me to the doctor to see if they could find out what I have been living with for years. After hours and hours of talking, testing, more talking demonstrations of many kinds, here is what we came up with.

It is an affliction for sure and can cause torment to those around the person such as my family has dealt with. Very little is known about O.C.L.M. but I hope by me putting the word out there and letting others know what I have that maybe they too can figure out what has taken a hold of their families. 

O.C.L.M. also known as Obsessive Compulsive Love of Mastiffs is usually found in the female but can affect the male as well to a lesser degree. It can appear at any time after birth to the “later” years. Symptoms vary widely in both number and degree of its severity. Here are some examples of symptoms that we see in our home:

0. Can see a slinger happening a mile away but can’t find the remote for husband’s use.
0. Finds that when mastiffs run thru the house, jumps on the couch, spins and runs back the other way very amusing but when the children of the house do it,, mmm, not so amusing!!
0. Will spend hours bathing, grooming, the mastiffs but will eat off paper plates so she doesn’t have to wash the dishes.
0. Considers loud, very smelly gas from the mastiff to be just part of life but when the husband does the same thing, again, not amusing.
0. Will spend hours in the yard with the pooper scooper making sure she gets every piece up so the mastiffs have a fresh place to “go” but will some how forget about the wads of hair floating throughout our house that we sit on, eat, have to try to look thru to see our tv.
0. Will spend an hour or more every day furminating the mastiffs but will not brush her own hair. Ponytail it is!!!
0. Will cook a huge meaty dinner and smack our hands as we grab a bite of it but then turn around after she has blown on it to cool it off and give it to the mastiffs. We get a sandwich!!
0. Will not hesitate to take a rectal temp or relieve grief caused from anal glands but requires dirty under where to be promptly put in the washer by the owner.
0. By memory can make 8 different meals of 6 different portions but cant make mac-n-cheese that is soft and not soupy.
0. Twice a day will clean slim out of water buckets but thinks cleaning out rubbery mac-n-cheese out of a pan that has been soaking all night is the most discusting thing ever!
0. Can sit thru or stand even for 10 hours at a dog show but when asked to get up and get hubby or kids a drink gets verbally violent!!

1. The spouse of the afflicted victim must realize there is not a cure for O.C.L.M.

2. Do not let others get hit by the slingers and slim that frequently fly thru the air at your home. That may cause them to become infected by O.C.L.M. as well. 

3. Do realize that it does spread into two, three, five, seven mastiffs have been counted in one home. If one gets it really bad and of course if the rest of the family is infected the numbers can reach the teens.

I hope this information has been informative and has given the average person an idea of what our family has gone thru for the past 8 years. There is no treatment for O.C.L.M. and if there were, those infected by it are totally in denial and therefore not interested in doing more research and testing to find a cure for themselves. And if I were you, I wouldn’t let your infected person know you were trying to find a cure. You may be living in the dog house you brought home last year that still does not have an occupant.