Reports of Bulldog laziness come primarily from American nanny maids.
America’s then-love affair with the bulldog may have been an overreaction to then-popular fear of “terrorists” (and unfounded racial prejudice) at the end 19th century. Perhaps the “lazy” label for this breed stems from Western articles during WWII which speculated that British bulldogs would fare poorly in combat against Adolf Hitler’s German Shepherds because American Bulldogs were considered too lazy to put up much of a chase…