A problem at 5 am...
At about 5 am nature called and I needed to take a wee. As I get ready to go to bed I hear a very loud noise.
It sounded like dogs fighting in my back yard, it was so loud and so disturbing I run strait to my back yard where my two females are (supposed to be) sleeping in wire black cages with beds and where bowzer was outside free roaming my yard. Bowzer plays as the watch dog and if its a nice night outside its often cooler out there than it is inside, so I have them sleep outside, my boyfriend gets up at 6 am and lets them all back inside.
Half asleep, groggy and not really all there (i dont wake up well at all and I pee in a half asleep mode) I run outside to see what the hell is going on. After all, I have neighbors, and I dont think its right to allow my dogs to make a crap ton of noise, I live very close to other houses. The first thing that goes through my mind is, oh my god a stray dog is in my yard and Bowzer is in a fight (even though I have big fences around the yard), but I was very wrong.
As I get outside I see my red and white female and Bowzer at what at the time appeared to be a "cage fight" because she was darting back and fourth barking at bowzer, and bowzer was running back and forth along side the cage, all three dogs screeching and barking at the top of there lungs, mixed with growling and cages rumbling like madness. They didn't even hear or see me come out. In a panic I scream at them "STOP IT!! STOP IT NOW!!" Because im thinking, oh my god animal control or the cops are going to get called, because it literally sounded as though my dogs were just murdering each other. They finally notice me and stop, looking mildly ashamed of their actions. My dog's cages were completely pushed from there location, quite a bit from where they were, and Bowzers face is scraped and bleeding. I look at them and I say "what the HELL is wrong with you f*cking dogs?!?" My adrenalin is sky high and I have to immediately calm myself down.
Before bringing the dogs inside I let them all out and they all seem happy and just wanting to play with each other, as if nothing had ever happened. I put them away INSIDE (in there indoor crates) and go back to bed. In the morning I try to figure out what the hell happened. My dogs have been a bit cooped up lately, Claxxton was inside sleeping so he was not involved in the chaos. I am preparing for the dog show, so I have been practicing with my dogs that are going and avoiding the dog park so that I can practice and keep the ones that are going to the show, from having any issues that would conflict with the show (injuries, exercising too much, trying to keep good weight on them.) And I think they were all just waaay too high strung. At the dog park my dogs love to run the fence with other dogs, what I think happened was Bowzer and Scarlett were acting as though they were fence running, but trying to "fence run" in a small dog kennel, which is obviously, just plain retarded. Bowzer on the other hand, was running back and forth along side scarletts kennel and ACTUALLY rubbing his face and nose against the wall outside which is a very rough surface. There is no reason my dogs would be fighting, there is no food, toys or bones outside any where to cause a fight.
While I was placing the kennels back into there original place I notice a decent size amount of blood on my wall, where Bowzer had been hitting the wall with his nose, in the midst of his ridiculous way of burning excess energy. His face is all scraped up and well, he of course could careless. Good thing I am not showing him at the dog show! None the less, this incident WILL NOT BE HAPPENING AGAIN.
This is why when you smack your bull terrier on the ass, they look at you as if the wind blew too hard. It's a tough tough breed.
It sounded like dogs fighting in my back yard, it was so loud and so disturbing I run strait to my back yard where my two females are (supposed to be) sleeping in wire black cages with beds and where bowzer was outside free roaming my yard. Bowzer plays as the watch dog and if its a nice night outside its often cooler out there than it is inside, so I have them sleep outside, my boyfriend gets up at 6 am and lets them all back inside.
Half asleep, groggy and not really all there (i dont wake up well at all and I pee in a half asleep mode) I run outside to see what the hell is going on. After all, I have neighbors, and I dont think its right to allow my dogs to make a crap ton of noise, I live very close to other houses. The first thing that goes through my mind is, oh my god a stray dog is in my yard and Bowzer is in a fight (even though I have big fences around the yard), but I was very wrong.
As I get outside I see my red and white female and Bowzer at what at the time appeared to be a "cage fight" because she was darting back and fourth barking at bowzer, and bowzer was running back and forth along side the cage, all three dogs screeching and barking at the top of there lungs, mixed with growling and cages rumbling like madness. They didn't even hear or see me come out. In a panic I scream at them "STOP IT!! STOP IT NOW!!" Because im thinking, oh my god animal control or the cops are going to get called, because it literally sounded as though my dogs were just murdering each other. They finally notice me and stop, looking mildly ashamed of their actions. My dog's cages were completely pushed from there location, quite a bit from where they were, and Bowzers face is scraped and bleeding. I look at them and I say "what the HELL is wrong with you f*cking dogs?!?" My adrenalin is sky high and I have to immediately calm myself down.
Before bringing the dogs inside I let them all out and they all seem happy and just wanting to play with each other, as if nothing had ever happened. I put them away INSIDE (in there indoor crates) and go back to bed. In the morning I try to figure out what the hell happened. My dogs have been a bit cooped up lately, Claxxton was inside sleeping so he was not involved in the chaos. I am preparing for the dog show, so I have been practicing with my dogs that are going and avoiding the dog park so that I can practice and keep the ones that are going to the show, from having any issues that would conflict with the show (injuries, exercising too much, trying to keep good weight on them.) And I think they were all just waaay too high strung. At the dog park my dogs love to run the fence with other dogs, what I think happened was Bowzer and Scarlett were acting as though they were fence running, but trying to "fence run" in a small dog kennel, which is obviously, just plain retarded. Bowzer on the other hand, was running back and forth along side scarletts kennel and ACTUALLY rubbing his face and nose against the wall outside which is a very rough surface. There is no reason my dogs would be fighting, there is no food, toys or bones outside any where to cause a fight.
While I was placing the kennels back into there original place I notice a decent size amount of blood on my wall, where Bowzer had been hitting the wall with his nose, in the midst of his ridiculous way of burning excess energy. His face is all scraped up and well, he of course could careless. Good thing I am not showing him at the dog show! None the less, this incident WILL NOT BE HAPPENING AGAIN.
This is why when you smack your bull terrier on the ass, they look at you as if the wind blew too hard. It's a tough tough breed.
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Poor guy beat himself up pretty good. I've had that happen a few times as well with my bullies. What will cause it with mine is when a possum will climb over the kennels really quitely at night in attempt to steal some leftover dog food or scraps. However, once a dog see's or hears the possom they bolt after him (never catching him) and start barking and going crazy which is about the time I wake up to see what all the fuzz is about.
One of my dogs (Maximus) beats himself all the time when a female is in heat. He'll pace up and down his kennel scraping his nose across the wire mesh like struming guitar strings. Poor guy rubbs his nose raw. He's done it so often his nose is calysed.
Bull Terriers can get so tuned into or fixated on something that they can be harming themselves in the process of getting their way. I heard about people who have had a Bull Terrier chew his way out of a travel kennel and losing a tooth and cutting up his mouth in the process. Pure determination.
I hope bowser is ok now. If it happens again you may want to put a camera up at night to find out what initiates the ruckus.
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