I just adopted an English Bulldog from a rescue home about a week ago. She's guesstimated to be 4 or 5 years old. She was picked up as a stray and taken to the local animal shelter. She was scheduled to be euthanized for temperament and the rescue home picked her up and saved her. They had her for 2 and half months and said she was very sweet and well behaved. I fell in love with her quickly but yesterday she tried to viciously attack the pizza delivery guy and I was totally shocked. This is my 3rd English Bulldog and my experience with them is that they love people. My last bulldog did get aggressive toward other dogs but she loved people. In fact I didn't think English Bulldogs were ever aggressive towards adults.
Anyway, I originally had her outside when he came to deliver me the sandwich I ordered. Then he had to go back to his shop and come back because he forgot to bring my soda. After he left to go back for my soda I let the dog in the house and I started eating my sandwich. In true dog nature, she of course wanted some. When the pizza delivery guy came back I heard him drive up so I got up to go to the door and the dog started barking. I opened the door just wide enough for him to hand me the soda. The dog aggressively shoved her nose in the door and flung it open and tore out after the poor pizza delivery man. I mean she was really going to tear him up. Fortuneatly he was very fast and was able to grab her head and get her down to the ground and I grabbed her collar. I apologized and told him I had just gotten the dog and had no idea she would do such a thing. He said he was okay but it scared the crap out of both of us.
I called the rescue home to tell them what happened and to tell them I was going to have to give her back because I just could not risk having a dog that was that aggressive. The rescue foster dad said they had her for 2 and half months and she never displayed that type of behavior and that they had people and animals in and out of the house all of the time. They said she is not a candidate to be placed in a home with that kind of behavior so that she would most likely be euthanized. I asked if there wasn't someone that could train her not to do this and he said no. I don't know if he was trying to make me feel bad but I sure do. This is so hard because I feel head over heals for this dog and now I have to give her back and on top of that she is probably going to be euthanized.
What makes it even worse for my emotional state is that I just had to have my 12 year old English Bulldog euthanized because she had congestive heart failure and got to a point that she was starting to suffer so I had to put her down. Now within 6 weeks I am losing another English Bulldog.
Has anyone out there had any experience with an English Bulldog being aggressive towards humans and attacking them? If so what did you do?
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