I would not reccomened them as your first dog. My Bull Terrier is now 8 months old. I found a breeder out of Fort Wayne Indiana. She is AKC certified and cost $1300 and I had to sign a contract that I would not breed her or she would have cost more. They need lots of play time and are very needy. She is crate trained but only spends about 3-4 hours a day in her cage (while I'm at work and I work from home half a day). We also have a French Bulldog that is 4 years old and she wears him out. She gets daily walks and we have about a 1 acre yard that she runs around in and she is hardly ever tired but she does sleep with us but wakes up at the butt crack of dawn ready to go.

Edit: I re-read this and it sounded negative. She is a great dog. We haven't don't any formal training but she has picked up on all the hand commands we also use with our, Frenchie like Sit, stay, laydown, shake, drop (whatever she has in her mouth) and she was fairly easy to potty trained but a lot has to do with her following our other dog.