We have an English bulldog puppy called Maisie who is 6 months old. She is extremely high energy and at times can be aggressive. This was a huge surprise to me. I'm not someone who has previously owned dogs, but I was lead to believe that English bulldogs were laid back, docile animals that sleep a lot.
Some of the behaviours that we regularly see from Maisie are as follows:
The problems are that bad that she blew out her cruciate ligament when she was just 5 months old jumping off our garden furniture, and has basically already had a knee replacement. This has obviously made matters worse as we have had to cut down the exercise until Maisie's knee is back to 100%.
My wife, who has owned multiple dogs her whole life, believe's in 100% positive training. But it's really hard. We both work from home, so we are always around. But when we are both busy it's hard to give Maisie as much attention as she would like. When she is under exercised, bored, or simply over stimulated from people visiting, this is when we see the worst side of her.
Does anyone have any helpful suggestions for me?
Some of the behaviours that we regularly see from Maisie are as follows:
- What we call "the Land Shark", where Maisie charges about the room with her mouth open. Often jumping at my furniture, or at people, and it can be really painful.
- Biting my wife's hair when she is sat down.
- Digging our plant beds up. Our garden used to be beautiful, but now it's an utter mess.
- Generally charging about the house, and throwing herself off furniture.
- Biting furniture, rugs, people, pretty much anything in fact.
- Urinating and defecating in 1 particular part of the front room.
The problems are that bad that she blew out her cruciate ligament when she was just 5 months old jumping off our garden furniture, and has basically already had a knee replacement. This has obviously made matters worse as we have had to cut down the exercise until Maisie's knee is back to 100%.
My wife, who has owned multiple dogs her whole life, believe's in 100% positive training. But it's really hard. We both work from home, so we are always around. But when we are both busy it's hard to give Maisie as much attention as she would like. When she is under exercised, bored, or simply over stimulated from people visiting, this is when we see the worst side of her.
Does anyone have any helpful suggestions for me?