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My son has rescued an English bulldog (female) he’s had her a couple of weeks and I and OH have met her so my dogs have noticed her smell on us when we came home.

Then yesterday my son bought his dog here first he let the dogs sniff each other through the fence then he let Kayleigh into the garden.
At first she just sniffed but being a bulldog she has a short palette/nose and its all grunts and growly type noises.
Mine 3 just did not know what to make of her, Remy headed indoors and took shelter in the kennel Benny ran and jumped up onto the soafa and Oscar was left to deal with the stranger!

He sniffed her a bit and she went for him, he ducked back and ignored her looking to me for guidence. Then she came into the house and my 3 did thier best to avoid her but she twice more struck out at Oscar ( he is my dominante dog although they are all male).

I felt sorry for my three but considering they are not the most gentle or quiet dogs Im proud of the fact that they didnt gang up on her which they could quite easily have done.
I think her behaviour was defensive because she was in a new fairly confined surrounding with 3 male dogs so Im arranging a new meeting later in the week this time in the park so they have loads of space and it will be neutral territory for all 4 of them.

Fingers crossed it goes better this time.

Apologies for not replying to this earliler cassandra. How are things with the dogs now? Did the next meeting with them all go well? I think that if your sons dog keeps going for one of yours, then it’s maybe best to keep them apart, OR, if he has to bring her over to your house, then maybe she could be muzzled?

I know what you mean about bulldogs, they can be funny old things at times. I used to know one and they do make funny grunting noises and can, at times, be a bit unpredicatble.

Let us know how it all goes.

As it happens he was here on monday with Kayleigh (his dog) .. mine seemed ready to forgive and forget , well except Benny who is a grumpy old so&so;at the best of times he just stayed well away from her.
Things went much better than last time, we kind of ignored them while keeping an eye on them and it went a lot better than I expected. I think now that Kayleigh has been with my son for a few weeks she feels more sure of her place and so not so threatend and defensive.

After checking who was who again and sniffing about for a minute or so she laid down quietly.
Mine decided a sleeping dog is boring and went off to do their own thing.
I think we need a few more meetings before I would trust them but it loks like it will work.
Fingers crossed.