My wife and I have always been partial to English Bullies....
Problem we are having now, is trying to lift and load our old 12 year old 90 lb. Bully into the Truck with my 63 year old back.
At our age, we have decided that the next pup is going to be a Frenchy...... Much more portable.
@catfish1957 If you are maybe a little hard of hearing and need a guard dog for the house,get one of them little "rat dogs". They go off like an alarm clock if they hear a suspicious noise. NOTHING escapes their notice and alert yaps. Had a couple when I was a kid and we lived in the city.
As an adult,I owed a dobie that was without question THE best dog that had ever been born in all of history,but she sucked as an alert dog. Couldn't get her to bark to save my life. I did catch her staring at the front door of the apartment in Denver a time or two,or paying special interest to one of the windows,though. Never really bothered me. I figured she would probably eat whatever she caught,and I was good with that.
Only thing that bothered me is the potential of some idiot harming her in some way as she took him down. There was considerable danger of me overreacting and doing something like setting him on fire to watch him run while screaming.
Away from the apartment and the obligation to guard it and "her kittens",she was as harmless as ice cream unless there was someone around making a baby or child cry. NOT on her list of "good things to be doing." That's why I had to keep her on a chain when walking around with her.
I suspect she grew up in a house with small children,but don't know for sure. How I got her was I went to open the door one day to let my mean cat in that was scratching on it,and the dobie followed her inside the house,crawled up on a chair,and laid down to take a nap. I said "OK,well,I guess I have a dog now. "
I have no freaking idea how the cat convinced the dog to follow her home,but damned if they didn't even sleep together. That cat was NOT friendly,either. I had lived with her for a year before I could touch her without getting scratched or snarled at. Yet she would do figure 8's around the dobies front legs while getting licked until she was soaked,and purring the whole time.