American Bulldog Cross

Ed – 4 year old female American Bulldog cross Boxer

Ed is a 4 year Boxer cross American Bulldog male. He is a sweet boy and although he came from the og pound he’s a very affectionate dog and just loves fuss & cuddles. Travels like a dream as he just lies down and sleeps he will be a fab addition to some ones family so come along and meet him!

Aggy – 4 year old male American Bulldog Cross

Aggy is a 4 year old American Bulldog cross Female. She is brindle and white. Speyed, vacc’d, chipped and wormed. Aggy is good with kids aged 7+ and is best as only dog with somebody who has experience with large/strong breeds. Aggy can be dominant towards other dogs, regardless of size and both males and females therefore previous large breed experience is needed. Aggy is great with people, loves a fuss and wants to be near you whenever she can. She is a bit pully on the lead but will walk to heel with a firm handler.

For more info please call 07542 360407 or you can email Canine99.rescue@gmail.com

Todd – 12 month old male American Bulldog Cross

Todd is a 12 month old American Bulldog cross, he is a great dog in every sense of the word and very sociable. He obviously needs a fair bit of space to live in and plenty of exercise.

Tank – 1 year old male American Bulldog Cross

Tank is a one year old American Bull Dog cross. He’s an energetic, beautiful boy with a stunning red coat. As you would expect for his age and breed he is fully of beans!

Video and more photos – http://s592.photobucket.com/albums/tt9/dorisbanham/Bullies%20in%20Need%20Dogs/Tank/

Please call Ann – Bullies in Need, mobile 07825 911241. Kennelled at Treswell, near Retford, Notts.

Bonnie – 1 year old female American Bulldog Cross

Being her carer has been, and continues to be, quite a steep learning curve; she’s challenging. She’s enthusiastic, bouncy, vocal and can be quite demanding. She absolutely hates not having her own way and sometimes gets in a strop when her attempts to push the boundaries don’t get her anywhere. She will bark to tell you off, to demand attention or simply because she can. Admittedly there have been times when I’ve doubted my ability to cope with her, but patience and consistency do pay off in the end.

Bonnie is very bright and likes to be busy, although she is learning (slowly) that sometimes she is expected to be calm and relaxed. She seems to get the hang of some things really quickly but other things don’t seem to sink in. She is very food-motivated so this helps enormously with training. She’ll sit, lay down and come when she knows there’s a food treat. At dinner time she’ll sit while her food is prepared and wait until she’s told she can have it. You can measure her hunger by the amount of saliva she drips. She’s not a slobbery dog and doesn’t drool, just drip-drip-drips like a tap. The quicker the drips the more hungry she is!

She’s an angel at bedtime, going straight to her crate when she’s told “bedtime Bonnie”, and once laying down inside she gets a treat, we say goodnight and cover her crate then she settles down for the night (you can often hear her from upstairs, snoring like a water-buffalo!) She now also knows to go to her crate when she’s told she’s going to get “nom-noms?(!)”. We do this if we have to go out and she can’t come too. She knows the difference between us wanting her to go in her crate because it’s bedtime and wanting her to go in because we’re going out, and she doesn’t really like being left so at one time she refused to go to her crate when she knew it wasn’t bedtime! But again, patience and consistency have won, along with the use of nom-noms.

A crate is essential for Bonnie as, left to her own devices, she will be destructive. She likes to chew and she’s not fussy what. She will happily pinch items of laundry (clean or dirty, she doesn’t mind!) from the linen bin or off the washing line, cushions, cuddly toys and shoes. Being so food-motivated means that she will scavenge, counter-surf and bin-raid. I discovered recently that I mustn’t, even for a second, leave a glass of Baileys unattended on the coffee table because before I knew it she was happily slurping my evening tipple! She has taken wooden spoons, roasting tins and a colander from the kitchen counter! You only have to turn your back for a nano-second and she’s up there seeing what she can find. She will, however, “get down” when told and if you’re aware enough to pre-empt her won’t jump up at all when told “no”. It’s all part of her learning what’s acceptable and what isn’t. She will let you take things from her mouth so retrieving items is fine, although she does sometimes think it’s a game and runs off. And believe me, it can be quite tricky telling her off when you’re almost crying with laughter because she’s racing round the garden with a pair of underpants she’s pinched off the line! That’s the trouble with the Princess; she has you tearing your hair out with frustration one minute and laughing uncontrollably the next.

Bonnie is such a friendly girl and she absolutely loves to meet people and other dogs. This started to get a little problematic when out on walks as trying to curb Bonnie’s enthusiasm at meeting a potential new friend was a bit tricky. She would lunge and bounce, sometimes leaping up and spinning mid-air so that it became almost impossible to hold her; although young she is big and strong. Her behaviour has never been aggressive, purely exuberant. Although she knows the “sit” command, once excited in that kind of situation she went a bit deaf. We’ve been using a Dogmatic headcollar for a couple of months now and it’s helped enormously – no more lunging and spinning, so coming across others when we’re out for a walk is now a much more relaxed affair. She walks beautifully on the lead, happily trotting along and not pulling.

Because Bonnie is so friendly she gets very excited when visitors come to the house. She wants to leap into their arms and smother them with kisses but she is (slowly) learning that this is not acceptable. She’s learning to sit when we open the door and to not bounce at the visitor. She does respond to a firm “no”, and you can tell that she’s trying really hard not to bounce (she’ll do a sort of a “sitting bounce” where she’s in a sitting position but bouncing ever so slightly, just managing to keep her paws on the ground – and all the while wiggling her bum!) but sometimes she just can’t help herself. She’s getting much better though and it’s taking less time for her to settle once the visitor has come in.

All in all life with Bonnie is never dull; she’s hard work but she’s learning and improving all the time. She’s like the little girl who had a curl, from the nursery rhyme? when she’s good, she’s very, very good but when she’s bad she’s horrid! She has the sweetest nature and will more than happily give and receive many, many cuddles and kisses (given half the chance she will sit on your lap to do this, and she’s no light weight!) and when she’s tired she loves nothing more than to fall asleep being cuddled. She’s very pretty, very loving, very big and a right royal pain in the backside at times. But then, she is the Princess?