Bullbreedlover

Have you got any statistical information to back up your statement that this forum is full of educated dog people? Many people on here own dogs, it doesn't make them all educated and responsible?

Maybe, maybe not, it will depend. Do you work full time, and how many hours in an average day would you be home? Is there anyone else capable at home that could also care for a baby Bulldog and very importantly would your whole lifestyle be suitable for one of my babies? :)

And the thing being is that I can see from all the last posts that people do have opinions and thanks for sharing them. Raz's explosion was kind of maybe a bit much :) Yes it does come down to personal preferences and I prefer(based on the time I have had in my breed) that a puppy of mine goes to a home where there is someone home that can give them the time they need. Every enquiry I get they get asked this question. I like to think my dogs are part of a family structure not an ornament in the back yard. I also think that many other breeds need the same structured home as well although others may not require it.

what surprises me is just how rude and condescending you and Jed are being. Well Jed doesn't surprise me but you do. When people are told they would be awful owners just because they work full time, then you can expect them to rise up. It was a blanket statement and you've taken it and run with it as well. Do you really think the objectors don't know what can happen if the dogs are neglected? Of course they do that's why they put the effort in to raise their pups well. What surprises me is how rude everyone else has been. My replies on this thread are my thoughts. I am allowed to voice my opinion am I not. They all have. From the sounds of it many objectors wouldn't care At least in my breeds there are some people that do care and screen their buyers carefully. This does not happen in a lot of cases.

While everyone who has posted on here may live in a perfect world, can some of you perhaps see that what might be the best for YOU may not necessarily be the best for someone else? Most of you all make yourselves out to be absolutely perfect(which makes me laugh as surely you all aren't). But that is OK. It's all good in your world. These are all real different scenarios and I am not saying that they don't all work for YOU. But maybe some people out there need to understand the other side AS WELL Many pet owners who do stay at home do have no idea as well. I know that. Off now to live in the real world cause I am just not perfect bugger it all.

Some breeders don't work at all, but just breed dogs. They earn a living from the puppies they sell

Lots of people though who seem to believe they are all perfect and can bring up a dog in their perfect world. Many of them can(going by the content of their posts) but the people on here are only a tiny percentage of the dog owning world. And there are a huge percentage of people out there who do a bad job. Who suffers then? The dog. But they don't care. Just discard that one and get another. Maybe breeders should care a little more as to where their puppies get placed. Maybe breeders should put more thought into why they breed in the first place. Owners need to make sure their decision to own a dog has the dogs welfare at heart. All this adds to fuel the fires of the anti dog lobbyists. I know of a lady who has gone through multiple dogs and has ended up having to rehome them, simply because she thought a puppy is really cute but it ended up chasing the horses or killing the chickens. Maybe if she had thought through her life circumstances before getting these dogs(yes, she and her husband work full time) it would of prevented the dogs being another rehome statistic. Have I told her my thoughts? Of course but I am not the one selling her a dog. She said to me she would love a Bulldog puppy. No way on this earth she will get one from me. Just my thoughts. Dolers make up a tiny percent of the dog owning world. Education plays a big part. Sad that some dolers came out with guns blazing at a statement that does hold a lot of truth. I can see that.

Do we? Or once again, are you falling into assumptions about people who work full time? Because that way lies danger. I can tell you right now that the presence of a person at home during the day who makes no effort to socialise or train a pup (and they are legion) is just as damaging to the pup as an empty home. Fat lot of good it does the pup if it's never let inside the house. Any sweeping generalisation is fraught with danger. I'd no more assume that a person who didn't work would make a great home than I'd assume a person who did work wouldn't. Personally, I'm bloody glad I work full time. God knows how I'd pay the $4,000 in vet bills my dogs cost me last month otherwise. So if this person goes to no effort whatsoever then technically the pup is left at home by itself. I cant see the reason behind telling me what you did. I work full time. My husband works full time(although at the moment he has been unwell for many weeks, but we both work different shifts so there is only a time of around 3 hours when no one is home. We choose to do this because we have pets and consider them a huge responsibility in our lives. Even older dogs I have rehomed have always been placed where the owners do not both work full time. Why do I think this way? Well I happen to give a damn where my puppies and rehomes go to and how they are brought up. Is that a bad thing? Seems like giving a damn is not the right thing to do on here. No one situation is going to be exactly like another, but making sure my babies who I have raised with care, go to great homes is top priority. No one breed is going to be exactly like another and my breed is a very family orientated dog who loves human company. I don't just chuck my dogs out in the back yard and let them fend for themselves all day in extreme weather and then call myself a caring owner. I am sure many people do though. Everyone is up in arms at being accused of being a bad owner and neglecting their dogs because they work full time, yet these same people have no problem condemning a breeder because they wont place a dog with owners who work full time. Damned if you are a breeder with different ethics than others who just sell puppies. Let me give a scenario or two. You have a dog which has bloated during the day. This dog may of started to bloat shortly after you left for work at 7.30 in the morning. You don't get home until 5.30 at night. By then the dog is dead. Your dog is left out during the day and gets bitten by a snake. Same thing. Off to work. 10 hours later the dog is dead. Had no chance whatsoever to receive vet attention simply because no one was home during the 10 hours it was alone. I have two breeds with which this can occur. Therefore I choose to work different shifts. I know these are only scenarios and they may or may not happen but I love my dogs too much to not treat them as part of my family. Others see differently. Therefore "I" choose not to sell my puppies to families where no one is home for the whole day.

I don't and wont place baby puppies in a home where no one is home during the day for 8 to 10 hours. Its my choice and if people don't like it then tough for them. I don't have to sell them a pup. Judging by a lot(pretty much all) of the replies people cant seem to understand what the big deal is and you all seem to think that leaving a puppy by itself for 10 hours will not affect its socialisation, training or upbringing. That is your opinion. Different circumstances and scenarios have been given and that's all well and good if people can work around the time but I wont leave a puppy home for that length of time. I don't think it is in the best interests of the puppy who is at a critical time of learning and socialising. Yes Jed, it does say some special things.

it's more than sad it's disgusting and the kind of day you really don't want to be known as a "breeder" and lumped in the basket with them I have to agree. It is sad. Having read through this whole thread in my opinion it is cruel to just do a c section and leave the bitch with nothing. Yes I know, it happens that puppies can be delivered dead and the bitch ends up with no babies to rear but in this circumstance that is not the case. I don't agree with what has happened but obviously our opinions are only that. Opinions. At the end of the day it is the breeders decision.

I was there at 11!!! Nicole just took us straight out the back, it was insanely busy and hot! If you ever see a yellow Getz with a sign in the back window that says "Greyhound Taxi Service" that's us :laugh: Hopefully the lump will just disappear but don't ever worry about ringing or going up all the time, they would prefer you did than not worry about it at all. They always have worried looks on their faces when we walk in and say "What's Stan done THIS time?" Hahaha I wonder how many times we've missed each other at EVH. What a small world :D I'm glad I'm not the only regular there, it makes me feel better about showing up all the time with a new Odie related drama every week! Just curious. Do you have to pay for a consult every time you take your dogs in?

If most of your dogs are getting these lumps and bumps in the mouth I would be checking if anything environmental is causing it. Perhaps plastic food/water bowls. I've had a number of dogs including a few rescue Rotties who were in very poor condition but have never had a dog with a lump on it's lip like this. My Rottie girl who developed cancer had a lump on her gum, which was seen to by a vet when it was simply inflammation and well before it developed into a lump. I did have a rescue Rott who had some acne on the outside of his lower lip or better described as his chin. The red lumps were tiny. I took him to a vet who prescribed antibiotics which cleared it up quickly. I am of the opinion, due to my experience, that nothing good ever grows in a dogs mouth except teeth. Hopefully the lump on the lovely GR's mouth at all to be concerned about but I would still have a vet check it is nothing My dogs don't have plastic food or water bowls. But thanks for the suggestion Most if not all of their pimples are ingrowing hair follicles. They have never needed antibiotics and I would never let them have antibiotics for something as simple as that. I have also had one Bullmastiff with severe cancer on her lips. As well as Bulldogs and Bullmastiffs with lymphoma. If I spent all my time at the vets getting tiny lumps looked at all I would be doing is paying for their new BMW. Common sense prevails in many circumstances. I look after my dogs better than myself but don't rush off to the vets for every little thing.

hankodie I am of course not a vet, and judging by other peoples posts, they seriously think you should take him to a vet so that this pimple can be diagnosed or a needle aspiration done. So please, take no notice whatsoever of what I have posted. It is your dog so you need to make a decision. By the way, almost all my Bulldogs, Bullmastiffs and also my Great Dane puppy have all had exactly the same looking pimples. Makes me feel really bad cause I didn't rush them all to a vet.

They don't necessarily heal in a couple of days. My dogs have had exactly the same looking bumps and I have never taken them to the vets. Absolute waste of money for a consult in my opinion. Have you got a doggy friend close by who can have a look at it? Apply betadine if you have it or try the salt bath wipe. If it looks like it is coming to a head then apply some pressure to see if anything comes out(as you would squeezing a spot)

PUPPY Pimple You are lucky Hank is not a Hanky Panky girl Girls get pimples on their fannys! Seriously though it looks OK. Sometimes it can be the start of an infection in the hair follicles. Usually they will clear up by themselves. Have you got any Betadine? Salt water mix may help as well

Her stomach does drop when she stands up LOL although she is big. This heat has me worried. But with fans and cool coats and a portable aircon she is happy and relatively comfortable. Have spread her meals out to 5 times a day as she wasn't coping with 3.

One of my dogs benefits immensely from having psyllium husk added to her meal twice a day(every single day) Some dogs do have a problem where their colon is not absorbing enough water from the daily fluid intake. I mix the psyllium in hot water(in a very small cup)she gets one heaped teaspoon and this is poured over her dry food and mixed. I know in this case the food isn't the issue(as my other dogs are all fed the same quality food) but it is something with her. Also I would do as other suggest with an old dog and forgo the bones. Digestive systems can change as the dogs get older. As with us. Sometimes we need a little help and psyllium husk is a completely natural and safe mixture to give

Lol My Bulldog girl loves maintainance time and she gets pimples on her fanny. Sometimes they get a bit infected but I put betadine on them and they disappear. She loves the attention.

Just over 2 weeks to go for us. Special cargo on board.

As Secretary of a Club I usually get 2 or 3 enquiries a week with people wanting British Bulldogs. Now that I have advertised a litter due early January I am getting up to 5 or more enquiries. I am extremely weary with every enquiry. Yes I know most of them are genuine with the odd dick head thrown in there and I tell them that there is no "top of the list" for anyone and no decision will be made until the are at least 4 to 6 weeks old. If they are prepared to wait then that is good. If not, then it's no skin off my nose. I didn't breed a litter for the market in the first place as at least 3 to 4 puppies are already spoken for. Espinay2 I would like to get an outline of your basics and questionnaire if that is OK. Then I can perhaps do my own in relation to my breed. This is my first litter in 8 years and have always found fantastic homes for our babies but its a different world out there now and the goal posts have changed with backyarders and crosses etc.

Yes, the Bulldog numbers are quite high some months.

Thanks everyone. I am still tending towards the goats milk. It still ticks all the boxes for me and as I am rather old school it seems the way to go with nutritional requirements if needed. The problem I also have is my girl has extremely large nipples and getting very young babies to get on these could be interesting, but will have to see how she and they go when they arrive. There are only about 2 of them that could be a problem.

I did find one thanks. Unfortunately the videos weren't the ones I thought I had LOL.

It has been a few years since I reared a litter and I am expecting my girl to have an abundant milk supply(she has whelped a litter before) but I want to be prepared just in case I need to supplement. In the past we have used powdered goats milk baby formula which we found extremely good and had no problems but would like some suggestions and availability of other powders please, not necessarily an animal only product.

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