just ahd to break up a dog fight

n1blo said:
If a dog is allowed in a pub, then I wouldn't call it a high class establishment.

Staffies are great dogs, I'm very much in the "No such thing as a bad dog, only poor owners" camp.

The girls sister has a staff and it's a lovely wee thing. Staffies have been widely accepted as good with children.
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Not where i'm from they're not.

If any of my friends with kids decided to get a staffy i would strongly advise them otherwise. They are just too unpredictable.

Just because you have a good experience with one doesn't mean they can all be considered this way.
 
Sleeve88 said:
Not where i'm from they're not.

If any of my friends with kids decided to get a staffy i would strongly advise them otherwise. They are just too unpredictable.

Just because you have a good experience with one doesn't mean they can all be considered this way.
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Funny my brother was looking a dog just before Christmas and he was all for going to the pound and getting one from there. Specifically a Staff or English Bull Terrier. I told him not to. Especially with his kid. Not that they're any more unpredictable than any dog you get at a pound, but if you have kids you really want to get a pup that can be brought up with the kid as opposed to trying to transplant a possibly damaged (regardless of breed) dog into the family structure.

Since I live on my own, I re home dogs from shelters myself. Had many bull breeds and currently have a bit of a mental labrador. There isn't one of them I've had I'd trust to leave on their own with a kid. And when my brother visits with the kid the dog is usually put out the back or I'm watching her the entire time she's around his kid. Because you never know, particularly with dogs you haven't raised yourself. You can do what you can in regards to training, but there'll always be something there. Some damage.

As for: Just because you have a good experience with one doesn't mean they can all be considered this way.

That's applicable to any animal you bring into your home. They're all individuals with their own personalities.
 
Wossi said:
You sound like a Daily Mail reader who wants to ban things regardless.
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If you have to slur me in this forum at least please call me something else than a Daily Mail reader. In fact that slur says more about you than me.

I will reiterate, after an attack on my dog by a Staffordshire Bull Terrier, the owner prised his dog off my dogs neck and apologised profoundly, I spoke to the bloke and he came across as a good owner and he openly admitted that his Staffy was just so unpredictable.

I had to take my dog to the vet and get her wounds sorted out.

As I read more and more of these Staffy attacks I'm hoping the breed will be banned. Bad or good owners, that breed of dog is unstable.
 
Love the Ridgeback breed, certainly my dream dog.

Plenty of Ridgeback's without the ridge go on to live happy and fulfilling lives with loving owners, you just can't breed them since they aren't pure examples of the breed, or so my understanding goes.

Dog aggression and behaviour is incredibly dependent on the owner and as others have said, the vast majority of breeds will behave very well if brought up correctly. Any dog can be a problem dog if the owner brings them up incorrectly, a lot like children really.
 
Staffies are a fashion accessory.

The typical owner is a lesbian ladette with multiple piercings, peroxide blonde hair or chavvy looking bloke with baseball cap and tracksuit and the dog wears a leather body harness and pointy bullets on the collar.
 
digipeep said:
I spoke to the bloke and he came across as a good owner and he openly admitted that his Staffy was just so unpredictable.
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His fault, not the dogs. Sounds like he was just trying to cover his own ass if you ask me. You should have atleast made him pay for the medical bills.

RobRX-7 said:
Staffies are a fashion accessory.

The typical owner is a lesbian ladette with multiple piercings, peroxide blonde hair or chavvy looking bloke with baseball cap and tracksuit and the dog wears a leather body harness and pointy bullets on the collar.
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You're an idiot.
 
digipeep said:
No they are not good dogs, and the more bad publicity they are getting the sooner we will be rid of them. Had a staff attack my dog once, the owner was fine tried to get him off my dog and eventually succeeded but just admitted that Staffs are a bit unpredictable.
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So how do you know they aren't good dogs? Because your dog was attacked once by a Staff so the entire breed is dangerous? Get real, it was the owners fault for not being able to control the dog in the first place and if it was so unpredictable why was it not muzzled when outdoors?

I've grown up with a Staff and we've owned 3 total and the only time they showed any sort of aggression was to cats and as they got older they couldn't even be arsed to do that any more. I admit I was attacked once by our Staff and that was entirely my own fault because I bit down on his ear when I was 8 years old (I have no idea why...), all I received in return was a nip on the ear myself and when he realised what he was doing he stopped instantly, overall the 'attack' lasted less the a couple of seconds.
 
For the record of all you Staffy haters, my STAFF was attacked by a labrador and had part of his ear bitten off.

But labradors are all saints :rolleyes:

On the flip side my mum and dad own a labrador who has been the most docile and gentle dog I have ever experienced in my life.

It's the individual dog not the breed that is the problem.
 
I'm sorry a couple of you Staffy owners are getting a bit upset here, but it's not you, it's not any future Staffy owner, it's the breed, they are a nasty breed of dog and have been bred to be nasty.

Luckily my dog was a Boxer and the little **** Staffy didn't do too much damage, I'd wonder what would have happened if my dog was a male Boxer, probably done the same as the Ridgeback.

Staffordshire Bull Terriers are giving all other dogs a bad name, they need to be banned now. B
 
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digipeep said:
I'm sorry a couple of you Staffy owners are getting a bit upset here, but it's not you, it's not any future Staffy owner, it's the breed, they are a nasty breed of dog and have been bred to be nasty.

Luckily my dog was a Boxer and the little **** Staffy didn't do too much damage, I'd wonder what would have happened if my dog was a male Boxer, probably done the same as the Ridgeback.

Staffordshire Bull Terriers are giving all other dogs a bad name, they need to be banned now. B
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We don't care what you're saying against us as Staffy owners, it's the fact you have something against the breed that's the entire issue. They aren't a nasty breed of dog at all, if they werent so chunky they'd be a lapdog by choice.

People see a scary looking dog or hear about an attack by a particular breed, then word gets around and all of a sudden they're a monster and should be banned. It's absolute crap. Any dog is capable of attacking. Just look at the little Terriers that yap and carry on, if you go to touch them they'll try to bite your fingers off. But that's apparently cute and acceptable, so it's allowed and nobody cares.

As i keep stressing time and time again, any type of dog is capable of aggression if they aren't raised right, and when things go bad, bigger "scarier" dogs get a bad wrap because they can do more damage due to their size.

It reminds me of bad parents who can't keep they're kids under control and then blame everything around them instead of blaming themselves for raising them wrong. But it's funny how everybody on the outside can see it's the parents fault... why can't the same logic be applied to dogs?
 
digipeep said:
Staffordshire Bull Terriers are giving all other dogs a bad name, they need to be banned now. B
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I think most people are confusing Pit Bulls with Staffs.

For example here are the stats of leathal dog attacks in the states (so probably biased towards the type of people who own pit bulls over there)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_dog_attacks_in_the_United_States

Trying to find the UK stats but I'm pretty sure GSD's still top due to sheer number of GSDs in the UK.

KaHn
 
It's not fair to say all staffies are dangerous, but it is fair to say a lot of the owners are common as muck thick idiots.
 
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digipeep said:
I'm sorry a couple of you Staffy owners are getting a bit upset here, but it's not you, it's not any future Staffy owner, it's the breed, they are a nasty breed of dog and have been bred to be nasty.

Luckily my dog was a Boxer and the little **** Staffy didn't do too much damage, I'd wonder what would have happened if my dog was a male Boxer, probably done the same as the Ridgeback.

Staffordshire Bull Terriers are giving all other dogs a bad name, they need to be banned now. B
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You do realise that your lovely little boxer is descendant from fighting dogs, just like the Staff? By your logic the Boxer has been bred to be just as nasty.
 
Staffies are the pet bling for chavs i'm afraid, it's not the dogs fault it's the tossers who use them as look i'm ard i got a staffie :(

I'm not stereotyping all Staffie Owners, but staffies are associated now with the underclass scrotes
 
I'm just interested in how many real proper Staffy owners we have here rather than sum chav scum owners that tend to post in this forum.

Tell me about how good your Staffy is, I love dogs, charity work, helping the disabled would be lovely in your story.
 
Insanity said:
You're an idiot.
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He's not.. Staffs and English bull terriers (and similar breeds, including rotties and mastifs - basically any big/strong breed) are the current fad for people wanting to intimidate. Around here every group of teenagers you see have at least one terrier with them, and they will have a big, big chain or studded collar. They will also be very excitable and bark lots, and the 'owner' will be struggling with it.

Unfortunately a lot of the time when these groups meet they will let the dogs fight, too.

This definition of "chav dog" from urban dictionary basically sums it up..
A dog that belongs to a chav. Breed invariably a Pitt Bull Terrier, Staffordshire Terrier, Rottweiler or a cross of these breeds. The more dangerously over-playful they are, the more popular they seem to be.

At any time of day, on any council estate in the UK, you will see a chav and a chav dog. Steer clear.
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