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Hope Saidel is the co-owner of GollyGear.com. For the last three years, she's shared her life with a brindle Frenchie named Dax, a source of never-ending joy, laughter and snortification. Hope invites you to email her your French Bulldog related training, obedience or behavioural related questions.
Current Question and Answer - December 5, 2007
How do I deal with my neighbour's agressive Frenchie?
We have a problem. We have a neighbour who owns 1 male french bulldog, 2 female french bulldogs; plus one or two resuce dogs, hound origin. We own a golden retriever male.
Our problem is that the french bulldogs (1 male and one female) have attacked our golden retriever together 3 times once resulting in taking our dog to the vet after being injured by them. Last night the male broke through the fence again, and ran at me whilst I was at our front door. I am not usually afraid of dogs but I am absolutely terrified of these ones, particularly the male, and the owner will not listen to us, since she finds her dogs adorable.
What can we do to solve this problem, I am at my wits end and am now going to seek advice from the police. We are also trying to put up a more rigid fence. If this doesnt work we will have to move from our home due to the aggressive behaviour of this male french bulldog.
Please can you help us to find a solution. I am terrified that the end result will be that someone will end up being really hurt by this dog.
Hope writes:
As most dog owners know, either sex of any breed of dog can be aggressive. There are many steps an owner can take to gain control of the situration, or preferably, prevent it from happening at all.
Without the owner recognizing and dealing with the situation through training, the only thing you can do is protect yourself and your family, including your dogs. Do strengthen your fence, making sure there are no holes large enough for the unfriendly neighbor dogs to use. Secondly, when you go out, arm yourself with a spray-bottle filled with either lemon juice or vinegar. If the dogs come charging at you, yell "no" at them. If they come within range, spray them with the lemon juice, aiming for their mouths if possible. It should give you enough time to get back inside.
If the problem persists, do call your local animal control office and see if they will assist you, either by speaking to the owner and getting her to recognize the problem and deal with it, or by giving her a citation to force her to control her dogs.
- Hope and Dax
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