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Lionel - The beautiful but guarded fluffy Frenchie
King's Lynn
21 hours
£500
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French Bulldog Puppy 1Male£250
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Adv. ID:-ldBAs8H6
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Adv. Location:King's Lynn
Breed:French Bulldog
Pets in litter:1 male
Age:1 year, 3 months
Ready to Leave:2025-02-16
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Microchipped by collection dateNeuteredVaccinations up to dateWorm and flea treatedHealth Checked by a vetKC registered by collection
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Lionel, our beautiful 17KG fluffy frenchie was purchased from a breeder in November 2023 and brought into our family Christmas Day 2023. We spent well, over £2000 to have a dog that had all of the paperwork you could dream of and was fully KC register, we met the Mum, met the Dad and did everything as you should. We lost our previous Frenchie, Elvis who was 8 years old to a brain tumour a few months before Lionels arrival and our home felt empty for this period, we knew what life we gave Elvis and what joy he brought us too, we believe we are a proper dog family and were more than prepared for the next chapter in our family life.
Lionel is a lovely boy really, a fun and nutty puppy who loves his food and loves his walks. If you met him on a walk you would agree what a lovely puppy he is, playful and great with other dogs just wants to play all of time.
In our home, he is a good boy 99% of the time, he eats in his room, he knows not to go upstairs to the bedrooms, he enjoys laying on the sofa, loves the garden and he knows the boundaries despite being a puppy. He has played lovely over the past 13 months with our 3 year old Son and has been kind and playful with our 8 year old Daugther.
Lionel enjoys coming to work, we run multiple businesses but majority of my time is in property development. So he comes to site, in my truck, vans and spends time in the office. The maximum we ever leave him at home is 3 / 4 hours.
Unfortunately now comes our reason as to why we are having to rehome Lionel, resource guarding.
So Lionel, when he decides something is his (that we cant predict), whether that be a chair, dropped food, just about anything really he goes into this terror fit when he will try an destroy anyone in his path. It is almost seizure like, examples below.
Friday in the office, he was a happy chap all morning, had been out for a nice walk, had his water bowl and I gave him a treat in the office, me and another staff member were working and he was settled without issue. Then my admin manager arrived, who Lionel knows well and has done his whole life, he seemed fine and I continued working, next thing I know he has leaped up and bitten her arm because she adjusted her office chair. Certainly left a bruise! So I jump up and run over, he’s then shaking and slightly growling whilst looking at Samantha and I step in between them. Now I fully understand his issues I get onto my knees and I talk to him until I can see he is out of his anger fit or whatever we can call it, I am then gentle with him whilst talking and trying to tell him he is wrong, I clip his lead on we exit the office.
Sunday at home, Reginald (our 3 year old Son), walks into our utility room where Lionel sleeps and eats, just like Reginald has a million times with zero issues from Lionel, they are best friends! However I could see Lionel acting strange, almost weighing Reginald up so I follow and I can see what is going to happen, he slightly lunges for Reginald but I manage to pin Lionel down and stop it, then the usual talk to him and leave him to settle away from us all.
The above is two examples of over 20 incidents over the past ten months and as you can appreciate, children come first. I understand and see when it is coming, but I cannot have eyes in the back of my head and I certainly cannot keep a dog caged or at home all day alone. I wish I had the time to train him and to never want to go on a break or holiday but that is unrealistic.
It breaks our heart to have to write this letter but we know we have to rehome Lionel now and give him a more settled environment with experienced and kind owners, away from Children whilst he is trained and loved.
We have been to the vets, they gave him an injection back in November 2024 which was the same as having him neutered apparently. They told us that it would get worse before it got better, which was true, 6 weeks of extremely difficult circumstances but we got through it. Then we thought, yes, it has worked and we were seeing great signs of improvement. Then these recent incidents, two of which mentioned above have confirmed the probably inevitable truth that we need to rehome Lionel.
We reached out to the breeders last year and shockingly, pretty much just blamed us! Apparently all he needs is love and training, like we haven't done that…
We absolutely cannot just let Lionel go without knowing where he is going. We need to know he is going to a good home, a loving home and that he will be walked, loved and generally treated well. We also need the reassurance that if his new owners cannot handle him and things do not work out for some reason then we will be your first call and we will come and collect him.
An awful letter to write, but we have ran out of options as a family and we really, really hope that there is a single person or a loving couple out there who can enjoy this wonderful boy.
As previously mentioned, Lionel is an amazing dog, if it was just us two adults or just me going to work I would never let him go in a million years. The thought of not having him around is heart breaking and a wound that will never heal, I just wish circumstances were different.
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