Except today. We are really struggling. I am beginning to think that the operation we bought him from was some kind of puppy mill--the kind they always warn you about. I think I just wrote a huge check to finance one.
The thing is, if she had just been honest with me, and said look, we have kept this dog kennel style until he is a giant neglected puppy that will be a disaster for any future owner, I might have actually bought into it, or someone would have, for some price.
But she made me specifically think that this was a family dog that slept in her boyfriend's bed! This dog has not seen anything besides a kennel and a yard, and he is obviously traumatized. Anyone who buys a bulldog needs to think twice before they buy from this operation, that I have named previously, in older posts when I wasn't as decidedly concerned. I don't want it to sound like a negative commercial here, I just want it to be a warning for anyone interested in this breed for themselves: you are in for a handful.
And coming from me, who has touted only this breed for thirty years now, that is saying a lot. You will be buying more than another child if that is what you decide to get. And NEVER make the mistake I did by bypassing the puppy stage to save your carpets. What you will get is a problem dog, and that is what you should ask to pay for.
The saddest thing is that now my children are so attached to him that we will be devastated if ultimately I decide I can't handle it. I can't wind up in the hospital just because we have fallen in love with a dog. My children will probably never get over it, and the dog DEFINITELY never will.
Who will want an ageing problem bulldog? And we won't have the nerve to lie to disguize his past, we would know that we would just be devastating another family for a few hundred dollars. We will have to take a total loss just to make sure he goes to a good home.
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