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I went through the same thing with my Bulldog. It took time and a lot of patience but it has paid off and now (8 months old) he actually enjoys walks most of the time. Also yes they are amazingly stubborn but that will also work to your advantage when it comes to training, once they have something i...

I have a 6 month old bulldog so I can relate to the "aggressive" puppy biting. What finally worked with Moe was removing myself from play by stepping to the other side of the puppy gate or leaving the room and shutting the door for 10 seconds. Keep yelping but try leaving him and be prepar...

My puppy Moe did and does this, I believe it has less to do with being house trained and more to do with claiming the bed as his. The odd thing is he has never peed in his crate just the beds. After replacing/cleaning beds 10 times I finally got a paper towel ready and when he peed on his newest bed...

Thank you all for the links. Living in the US it is hard to find support for actually waiting to castrate let alone not castrating at all. I refuse to make a final decision until he is a year. As for the marking I know now to keep an eye on him when inside, I wish I had started using OI when he was ...

This is a brand new behavior that started this morning at work. I believe he is doing it because of all the smells and I can understand that however it is still unacceptable inside. I live in the US so the first and only response from people is to neuter him, I am still having a huge internal debate...

I have just been through this with my 6 month old Olde English Bulldog. Many of the better natural foods are very rich for some puppies. After trying 4 different foods and discovering that Moe has a chicken allergy I finally landed on Natural Balance Limited Ingredient Bison and Sweet potato. This i...

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I will find a new way into the building then.

I realize times can vary by dog but Moe seems on the young side to me. He is now 5 months old and this behavior started about 2 weeks ago. He is suddenly afraid of the linoleum floors at work. These are the same floors he has been walking on since he was 8 weeks old, in fact I have made sure that he...

You are both doing really well, for things like sit and down I lure and teach them a hand signal first then when they have the hand signal, I put a word to it. Dogs learn quick by hand signals than words and when older and going deaf, hand signals are useful. He will respond to hand signals for sit...

I think you are doing extremely well! With clicker training I personally think its fine to start out by luring behaviours. As long as its only initially, and the dog IS realising that its his action that earns him the click and thus the treat and he isnt in any way 'blinded' by the presence of the ...

Sorry about the long post ... It has been 5 weeks with Moe my now 13 week Olde English Bulldogge. It has been exhausting, rewarding, fun, frustrating, educational and bewildering. I have gone from overwhelmed and neurotic to calm and confident and back again many times. Just when I think I have him ...

Moe and I have started on clicker training yesterday. When he got to the point where he would look to me for a treat after the click I started with his normal routine. Does it make sense that I started with Sit, it's the command he knows best and I thought it might help reinforce the Click/Treat com...

Not to pile on but I feel I have some practical experience that backs up what people are saying. 20 years ago I got a puppy, because I just had to have one and had always had dogs growing up (I wasn't the one caring for them though). I was just out of university and starting my career and needed to ...

Hello again, My Moe is now 9 weeks old and I am trying to use the leash to lead him outside for potty breaks. More often than not he just sits there until I crouch on the ground and call him enthusiastically, then he will run over happily. The problem is I then walk to the end of the leash and have ...

Noobs: The walks are really only to my car and when I take him out at work, he is very difficult to walk still because most of the time he just sits there until I call him energetically (you have to love the Bulldog = stubborn) it's never for more than 5 minutes at a time. I will try the boiled chic...