last week sam got attacked by a english bull terrier, since then his behaviour has changed, he gets very aggressive when someone knocks on the door, where i live i have a school field behind, normally the children dont come down my end, but yesterday, children about 11 were calling sam and when he came they were digging him with stick and calling him names and kicking the fence, i contacted the school who are dealing with it, but sam was very agressive, in fact quiet scarey, even in play with my hubby he gets realy rough, hope liz is about, is murphy going though this, or is he just growing up he is 2yrs

Hi Lorainne-Murph can be quite 'guardy ' when people knock on the door sometimes he doesn't even raise an ear'ole but other times he runs at it with his 'big bark ' ( especially the new milk woman :rolleyes: )I take him to the door with me and make him sit at my side -but there are still a few times when he will fly to the door barking! ( but this is part of his job ! )
The kids from the school , I hope they get a rollicking -our neighbours son was taunting Muph over the fence a few weeks back ,anyway Murph flew at the fence -he fell off the table he was stood on and I wet myself :D-but since then he has been barking more at the fence -I explained to the parents and said it might take a while to stop it and they understand .
To be honest if he barks at the door or the fence I don't tell him off as such -I tell him ''enough now '' and praise him for being quiet -he's doing what comes naturally to him -guarding his family
The bull terrier - I don't think tha would change his personality that much - I think it is a combination of him maturing and finding his feet in your household -Murph was attacked by a GSD about a year ago - I posted it on here at the time -I thought it would make him wary -but it didn't
When we got murph we were told -'no rough play ' so we have never done that -if you think about it Sam and hubbie are playing rough-sam growls -hubbie backs off -ahhaa thinks sam ,that gets a reaction -so he might take it a step further next time
He gets plenty of excersise and the kids play football with him ,and finding things but no wrestling or rough stuff
just stay consistant with him - he needs to know what is acceptable and whats not -they soon twig and next week he'll find something else to wind you up with ;) :D
HTH
Liz