r/OldeEnglishBulldogge

Hi!

Yesterday I brought home my sweet olde english bulldog girl. She was the calmest of her siblings and she is just so sweet towards me. She’s just 8 weeks old.

But, my anxiety right now is through the roof. For context, I am single dog owner now that I got her. Our plan, mine and my parents, have been to leave her three days a week during daytime at their home with them until she’s old enough to be in daycare. Without them I would not have been able to get a dog.

So the thing is they have a small poodle, also a girl and she’s 10 months old so she isn’t grown and still basically a puppy.

Yesterday when I brought her home, after a few hours, my dad came with their poodle. She’s super energetic and she totally loves me. She’s all over the place but she’s is a good girl and loves other dogs. I had my little puppy on a leash and when their poodle came my puppy started growling. I didn’t think much of it then because it was a big day for her, getting separated from her mom and siblings and getting to know me etc. By the end of the day they were playing and they were following each other around at my home.

Today though is when I started to really get worried. I had been with my puppy the whole day and they (parents and poodle) came by during the afternoon. At first they were both happy but later my puppy started growling again, and even bit the poodles ears so the poodle whimpered. At one point my puppy started sneaking on their poodle and that freaked us all out. But in between they could play but I don’t know… the energy just wasn’t right throughout every interaction as I had hoped.

We have previously had an olde victorian bulldog that we rescued, with an older small schnauzer and they got along.

I’m just freaking out because it would be a nightmare if she hurts her when she becomes bigger and stronger. I have seen how she and her siblings and mother/father played and it was rough. So I don’t know if they actually do get along and we are overthinking it or this is something bad. I honestly don’t know how I’m going to solve this if this doesn’t work out since I will be her only owner.

This is the first time I’m unsure if two puppies are playing or if this is serious, which scares me even more.

I would love to have your insight on this.

Okay so to begin with, I’ve had her for two weeks tomorrow. And tomorrow she turns 10 weeks.

This is an olde english bulldog so she growls alot and that’s not concerning since I learned that she isn’t aggressive BUT, today has been different.

So she needs to nap all the time, if she does not she goes crazy. Bites really hard on your feet etc. the problem here is that she just doesn’t take a nap on her own initiative so I have to hold her and be like “shh shh” until she falls asleep, and that has been our routine everyday these two weeks, every nap. I understand that I soon won’t be able to do it as she will become bigger but for now that has helped alot.

So what happened today? She just wouldn’t sleep, she ran around biting me, didn’t let me eat because of barking and biting. I lost it, so I moved her bed to her little playpen (crates are NOT legal here) and she cried and cried, everytime she went off the bed i picked her up and put her on the bed, several times and yelled NO! NO! I feel like an asshole but I just lost it.

Since that, she growls when I am on my way to pick her up, and she bites. She literally growls and bites. This is completely different from her play bites (which also hurt but they aren’t aggressive).

The thing here is that I HAVE TO be able to pick her up since I live on the third floor and she just can’t walk those steps yet.

So again, yes I feel like a complete asshole, I’ve terrified her and I feel like I have broken her trust. I’ve been spiraling the last 4 hours and just been googling and reading reddit posts about similar stuff.

What I have tried is giving her treats and stuff when picking her up sometimes it has worked, sometimes not. Right now she is sleeping next to me on the couch because I was finally able to hold her and make her nap. But I honestly I’m scared I have fucked up, or fucked her up. She trusted me and she only has me, and I did this to her.

Today is the first day I feel like crying. These two weeks have been tough, but today was just too much and I feel horrible.

Does anyone have any good advice or just any kind words?