Advantages: You will have a very loyal and loving family member Disadvantages: you must never trust on its own with children, but tyhis goes for any dog!
arent for the pups best interest, you will beable to see this from the questions they ask wou and from the responses you get from you questions to them. Also, get a KC registered pup and ask to see the family tree as to how far back there registration goes and if there are any champoins. It would be a good idea also to ask about any health problems, usually skin with bull breeds, but every breed has its suspected contitions. You MUST SEE THE MUM AND DAD. From this you will beable to see behaiour the pups may inherit and conditions or look.
Now you have your pup and your trying to let him/her settle. If you have children (my mum was advised by the vet with our dominant bulldog), have them sit on the couch (dont let the dog on) so that the dog is introduced to the family at the bottom of the pack. From this point train you dog with treats ...
Advantages: Loyalty to my children and family inc the cat!!!! Disadvantages: Tender stomach, handful and chewers as pups!
I have owned several of these fantastic dogs, however Samson my current one is set well apart from the others!
The breed was originally set up some time in the 17th century for one reason, bloodsport! They were bred with the Bull and Terrier amongst the miners and steelworkers in Staffordshire, here derives their name. In lots of respects they ressemble the original Bulldog, not the short legged, overweight dog we now see as the British Bulldog. They were bred lighter than the Bulldog, as the Bulldog tended to pull the bulls nose off once it had locked. They were bred with much longer teeth and shorter ears, however the greatest of all the changes comes with the head. They were bred with a much longer and punishing head, wide cheeck bones with huge ammounts of muscle mass from the bottom of the jaw to the top of the head ...