With our kind encouragement she has already started to blossom and began to show the real her which is a truly friendly, trusting and affectionate girl. Beneath her shyness she has a warm and demonstrative nature that has greatly benefitted by becoming familiar with those she has grown to believe in that have exercised her regularly and coaxed her out of her shell. Sally often stops for cuddle breaks on her walks, enjoying a fuss and thorough nuzzle.

All our Sally really requires is lots of love lavished on her combined with a nurturing home where she can lay her head and heart for good; plus a cosy basket and fun walks of course! Situated South East England, Hertfordshire.

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Sally – 3 year old female American Bulldog cross Boxer

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Ed – 4 year old female American Bulldog cross Boxer

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Rocky – 5 year old male American Bulldog cross Staffordshire Bull Terrier

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Aggy – 4 year old male American Bulldog Cross

Can you offer Ronnie his forever home? If so, please call 020 8341 3196.

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Ronnie – 2-3 year old male American Bulldog cross Staffordshire Bull Terrier

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Todd – 12 month old male American Bulldog Cross

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

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Dodger – 12 month old male English Bull Terrier cross American Bulldog

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

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Tank – 1 year old male American Bulldog Cross

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Snowflake – 12 week old female Staffordshire Bull Terrier cross American Bulldog

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?

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Bonnie – 1 year old female American Bulldog Cross