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Location: Wearing a winter coat...... | We have French Bulldogs and an English. Love my bulldogs but if I had to pick- I would go with the French hands down. They are more agreeable if that makes sense. My english is a BULLdog. Whatever she wants......she will bully you into it, lol. Sweet dog 90% of the time and 10% she is the DEVIL! |
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Location: Red Raiderland | My bro's girlfriend shows and raises them and they live in Central Texas. My brother says they are super friendly and sweet but they have a very rough time in the Texas heat. He also says they LOVE attention so if you even talk to them they demand to be petted and adored the rest of the day.  |
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Location: Nowhere Land | THANK YOU! He cracks me up everyyy day! Seriously these dogs are A LOT of work but so worth it! When we adopted him the woman who surrendered him had a major substance issue, he had Mange, Mites, Upper Resp Infection, Cherry Eye, Cysts in all his paws, raw skin everywhere oozying from laying in his own feces. (cause he was LOCKED in a closet for most of his life, 30 lbs overweight he couldnt even walk he was sooo heavy. His collar was fused to his neck. IT WAS VERY costly. He is Healthy and active now, and love his life on a farm. The odd ball that he is with all the "real" farm dogs, he does just fine. Despite popular belief of English Bullies are Dum-Dums.. they are actually VERY VERY bright! This little monster picks up things faster than our working bred dogs do by far. Be ready for your heart to break when you hear/see what these poor babies go through when you rescue. Sometimes its pretty bad. Cost us over 5k in vet bills to get him back to normal. Very sad, but one of the best things we ever did. He brings more joy than we could have ever imagined to our lives. GOODLUCK, and IDK where you are located but I have a friend that works very closely with a Rescue in the South PM me if you are interested in info! :) |
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Location: Kentucky | AngieM1 - 2015-04-01 1:26 PM THANK YOU! He cracks me up everyyy day! Seriously these dogs are A LOT of work but so worth it! When we adopted him the woman who surrendered him had a major substance issue, he had Mange, Mites, Upper Resp Infection, Cherry Eye, Cysts in all his paws, raw skin everywhere oozying from laying in his own feces. (cause he was LOCKED in a closet for most of his life, 30 lbs overweight he couldnt even walk he was sooo heavy. His collar was fused to his neck. IT WAS VERY costly. He is Healthy and active now, and love his life on a farm. The odd ball that he is with all the "real" farm dogs, he does just fine. Despite popular belief of English Bullies are Dum-Dums.. they are actually VERY VERY bright! This little monster picks up things faster than our working bred dogs do by far. Be ready for your heart to break when you hear/see what these poor babies go through when you rescue. Sometimes its pretty bad. Cost us over 5k in vet bills to get him back to normal. Very sad, but one of the best things we ever did. He brings more joy than we could have ever imagined to our lives. GOODLUCK, and IDK where you are located but I have a friend that works very closely with a Rescue in the South PM me if you are interested in info! :)
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 Cute Little Imp
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Location: N Texas | As far as the farting, feeding a high quality food will help A LOT. We have a dog that used to have BAD gas. We started feeding her Blue Buffalo wilderness food and she rarely farts now. Basically, any food that uses real meat and no grains will help with the gas issue. |
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Location: California | I have one and love him to death. His name is Rogie and he will be 3 in July. They have really big personalities and love their humans. Mine is very sweet and is actually intimidated by other dogs. There is a Yorkie in the condo area where I that I say "bullies" (by barking) at my bulldog. I have never been a "dog person" and hated dog hair (I grew up with dogs as my parents always had them). My bulldog now sleeps under the covers with me when it's cold! My bully is on an organic dog food with fish in it and it keeps his coat nice and he really has a lot less flatulence since he's been on it (I also had him on the Royal Canine food for a while). He does get the occasional toe cyst, but not often. I don't have trouble keeping his folds clean, but his ears (one in paticular) and tail pocket (for ones that have a curly tail) get really dirty if I don't clean at least every other day. When it's not too hot he goes to the barn or the barrel races with me. He always knows when he gets home he gets a bath and runs straight to the bathtub to be cleaned. At the races I have resorted to bathing him in the shower in the trailer because once he gets home he is too tired to get up after a long day at the race. He sleeps 90% of the day (mostly on the bed snuggled in the pillows), but he does like to play - mostly "tuggie" games and he can sort of fetch. I want a herd of bulldogs, but my husband says I can't get any more until we get a bigger bed and a bigger house. LOL.
Here are some pictures of him, they are all over my FB.
 
This was after he got his bath. He had a robe (before he outgrew it) that he would wear while drying. He also LOVES the heater when it's cold.
He loves his pillows!
 
Ok, last one. This was my Christmas card from the year before last.
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Location: Austin, Texas, where it can get really weird!! | We have An olde at 70 lb. We love her and her breeder is well known in "the olde community" she is awesome and her dogs have the best temper. The olde don't have health issues in the way that the standard does but has more big dog health issues, just with any dog. She is my little couch surfer, hangs out all day in bed or couch or yard.
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Midget Lover
Location: Kentucky | Love the pictures!!!! Thank you so much for sharing your stories! My husband is in trouble now... hahaha!!! |
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 Water Weight Barbie
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Location: Oz, Kansas | My sister has a male & a female. The female is getting ready to have puppies & hasn't had a lot of issues but her male, Hudson, has had one issue after the other. He has an inverted tail & it has to be cleaned constantly or it will get infected & stink, has bladder/kidney stones & has had 3 surgeries & will probably need more in the future, hip issues, allergies to grass you name it he has it. They ended up getting him fixed because they didn't want to pass all this down to any puppies. They are cute but he's spent over $7,500 on vet bills alone. He also had to get his eye lids fixed.
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