Bully Breed Thread!!!

[ShrekDawg]

When your screen name is “Bullfrog” and when you tend to read words or letters out of order, do you know how confusing it is to process “frog,” “bull,” and “dog” together?

 

[ShrekDawg]

How are the pups?

 

[ShrekDawg]

How old are they now?

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

How old are they now?

They’re a year now and doing well, except poor Winston losing his right eye of course. But he’s happy and doesn’t seem to know the difference.

 

[ShrekDawg]

They’re a year now and doing well, except poor Winston losing his right eye of course. But he’s happy and doesn’t seem to know the difference.

Wow can’t believe they are a year already!!!!!!!!!! And that’s good he is still happy and doing okay.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Thoughts on “crate and rotate”? A lot of people nowadays do it but I personally could never ever do that long term or even short term. It’s A LOT of work. And management can fail. Mistakes can happen. Etc. plus, personally, for me, I would just rather my (theoretical) dogs get along if I ever got the chance to have multiple at once. Or even if I just had Brew/ever get him back, I just prefer they get along with other dogs in general. Which he does. Even when he’s been growled at before, he just drops to the ground and rolls over LOL so yeah. I got lucky with him with his breeds. The only thing is sometimes with certain people he can be overprotective OR scared or both but usually even with people, he loves everybody. He really is a great dog. Best dog I have ever had.

 

[Squawkers]

Thoughts on “crate and rotate”? A lot of people nowadays do it but I personally could never ever do that long term or even short term. It’s A LOT of work. And management can fail. Mistakes can happen. Etc. plus, personally, for me, I would just rather my (theoretical) dogs get along if I ever got the chance to have multiple at once. Or even if I just had Brew/ever get him back, I just prefer they get along with other dogs in general. Which he does. Even when he’s been growled at before, he just drops to the ground and rolls over LOL so yeah. I got lucky with him with his breeds. The only thing is sometimes with certain people he can be overprotective OR scared or both but usually even with people, he loves everybody. He really is a great dog. Best dog I have ever had.

I’m a big fan of crating and rotating. If it’s for aggressive reasons though I feel like it’s best to rehome one of the dogs if possible. Because yeah, it’s stressful and accidents happen. We had to crate and rotate our old English bulldog her entire life. And despite that accidents did happen and she sent two dogs to the emergency vet, even with how careful we were. If you’re OK with doing that with an aggressive dog then good for you. I also think dog on dog aggression comes down to obedience sometimes. Not all the times of course, some dogs are just that way. With my male dobie I know for a fact there will be some issues between the two, but I’m not worried about it at all. If you have good obedience, you can control the dogs, even if they want to go after another dog. I’ve put Chase in a down before and had loose dogs run up to him, barking at him and he doesn’t move, he knows not to (and I completely understand that’s not the best scenario, and leaves him vulnerable, but I’m careful). But for me, I love crating and rotating for training purposes.

Yes, I know I really rambled

 

[ShrekDawg]

I’m a big fan of crating and rotating. If it’s for aggressive reasons though I feel like it’s best to rehome one of the dogs if possible. Because yeah, it’s stressful and accidents happen. We had to crate and rotate our old English bulldog her entire life. And despite that accidents did happen and she sent two dogs to the emergency vet, even with how careful we were. If you’re OK with doing that with an aggressive dog then good for you. I also think dog on dog aggression comes down to obedience sometimes. Not all the times of course, some dogs are just that way. With my male dobie I know for a fact there will be some issues between the two, but I’m not worried about it at all. If you have good obedience, you can control the dogs, even if they want to go after another dog. I’ve put Chase in a down before and had loose dogs run up to him, barking at him and he doesn’t move, he knows not to (and I completely understand that’s not the best scenario, and leaves him vulnerable, but I’m careful). But for me, I love crating and rotating for training purposes.

Yes, I know I really rambled

Nah, you didn’t!!!!!!!! No more than me!!!!!!! LOL I found it interesting. Especially the obedience part. I hadn’t really considered that before but I imagine it does make it easier if you can call one off on the way before they even get to the other dog or even before they even start moving towards them or considering it LOL plus if they know there are consequences for behaving that way and/or positive reinforcement for NOT doing that. LOL I imagine it makes fights or even small vocal scuffles or harsh (dog to dog) corrections or whatever a lot less frequent. For example, the first and only time we ever took one of my brother’s dog to a dog park, she was still pretty young and the park was still pretty new (I believe it is better now… I know someone else who goes regularly lol) and there was this one dog that was just chasing all the other dogs around and so aggressive. It pinned my brother’s dog who was still basically a puppy (I think around a year or maybe a little bit less) and then chased this other dog around and around the trash can and the other dog jumped up like on a bench to get away. And I think it chased another dog too. And the owners only ever grabbed the dog and held him to the side very briefly like “now *name*, you need to calm down!” And then let him go again. Like they thought it was funny or was just playing or something. We left after that. They should have too. The first incident. Oh and I think it went and barked at a kid outside the fence too who was luckily up on someone’s shoulders. I think it was a Chessie or Lab. Or a mix. But I would never take an aggressive dog to a dog park to begin with but if I DID then when I saw it being aggressive, I WOULD HAVE LEFT. WE have never been back LOL and I know this is exactly why people say dog parks are bad especially for young dogs but at the time we didn’t know better and also, again, I believe it is a lot better now and there is a good group that goes regularly including the person I know. Much better when the dogs know each other or at least most of the other dogs and people I think are much more aware now lol but now IM rambling. my point was how training could have helped that situation because they could have either LEFT when he wanted to play OR at least said NO! Or SOMETHING!!!!! Not just “you need to calm down” as if he fully understands English or is even listening in that state LOL but I am not trying to be a jerk because he could have been newly adopted or something (yes people around here take newly adopted dogs to dog parks and dog events etc.) but still.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I’m a big fan of crating and rotating. If it’s for aggressive reasons though I feel like it’s best to rehome one of the dogs if possible. Because yeah, it’s stressful and accidents happen. We had to crate and rotate our old English bulldog her entire life. And despite that accidents did happen and she sent two dogs to the emergency vet, even with how careful we were. If you’re OK with doing that with an aggressive dog then good for you. I also think dog on dog aggression comes down to obedience sometimes. Not all the times of course, some dogs are just that way. With my male dobie I know for a fact there will be some issues between the two, but I’m not worried about it at all. If you have good obedience, you can control the dogs, even if they want to go after another dog. I’ve put Chase in a down before and had loose dogs run up to him, barking at him and he doesn’t move, he knows not to (and I completely understand that’s not the best scenario, and leaves him vulnerable, but I’m careful). But for me, I love crating and rotating for training purposes.

Yes, I know I really rambled

Sorry for REALLY REALLY REALLY rambling LOL

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

I had to crate and rotate my pug and my American bulldog. Really one had the whole “dog room” and/or his kennel while the other was in the front of the house because the pug had no idea that he couldn’t cash the checks his mouth kept writing and it got to the point I was trying to deal with them and a newborn. Eventually the bulldog had to get rehomed. Not just because of the pug but because he couldn’t be careful with kids so it wasn’t an option. It was rough trying to keep things under control though. Stressful for everyone and no way for my big dumb boy to live.