Staffordshire Terriers really are gentle

Garry Edwards said:
Personally I've found that most Staffies are perfectly OK with people, it's other dogs that are often attacked, without any apparent reason.

Quite a few Staffie owners <snip> just because their dogs is pulling them like crazy because it wants to attack my dog, but the problem is caused by them, they own the aggressive dog, I'm not going to stop my own dog from enjoying his life because of their choices.
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When we first went to look at our SBTX at Battersea Brands Hatch one of the things that appealed was her description as "submissive". We took her for a walk on the lead and whenever we got near another dog she would be pulling and raised up on her hind legs as a result. We, very wrongly it turns out, took this to be aggressive behaviour and reported our concerns to Battersea. Other than that we thought she was lovely and wanted her - so long as she was not aggressive. Battersea kept her for another week in order to perform a full assessment on her, as she had been in kennels in London for six months and her character might have changed since they first started her records. They assured us that she was absolutely fine and that she wanted to play and was simply frustrated by the lead. So we went ahead with the adoption and they turned out to be absolutely right.

Now, of course, we have her under better control, but she does still show great enthusiasm to meet with other dogs, but while it can be mistaken for aggression it is nothing more than excitement. She gets on superbly with a friend's miniature schnauzer and recently she has been having a regular chase about with a lurcher we met whilst out walking. If called upon to defend herself then she will, but she is absolutely not aggressive, just playful. She is very people friendly.
 
I have a Staffordshire Bull Terrier cross Rottweiler, he is the biggest baby ever!

I've worked with hundreds of Staffy's over the years and have never met an aggressive one, yet I've been bitten 3 times in the past month by 3 different Jack Russell's. It's definitely down to the owner, not the breed.
 
have to say i have one that will bark growl, lunge etc whilst on a lead, but is perfectly fine off, its all about fight or flight, she can't run so will fight, i also have a staffy x that lives with 4 springers, and know lots of staffies (rescue) that live quiet happily with other dogs, on the flyball circuit theres a full team of staffs running very succesfully in a very charged atmosphere with no bother.
 
jonbeeza said:
Why does the news when talking about dangerous dogs, always have to show pictures of staffordshire terriers ? I have a staff cross and a few friends have full staffs, they are all well behaved and very gentle dogs. It really does annoy me when the stupid news channels when the subject of dangerous dogs comes up, they always show clips of people walking staffs.

I have been chased by an Alsatian, a Labrador went for my missus, a little yorkie grabbed hold of my trousers and tried to savage me. A Great Dane went for my dog the other week, and rather than attack the Great Dane my dog jumped into my arms.

So a dog is not dangerous because it is a staff, any dog is dangerous in the wrong hands :thumbs:
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This unfortunately is the reality http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-18320701 and why they do get attention for the wrong reasons.

Whilst Staffy's are great family dogs in 99.9% of cases when things go wrong the consequences are pretty bad.....whether that is down to the demographic of the owners (present company excepted) or what they were originally bred for I do not know.
 
thing is i wouldnt leave any child let alone a 2 year old unattended with ANY breed of dog. at that age a child wouldnt really grasp that a dog is not a toy and cannot be poked/hit etc etc. nobody can say for sure that the dog didnt flip out because the kid was whacking it with a toy sword for example.
 
How many more "isolated incidents" does it take for people to wake up to it being their normal behaviour?
 
Stratman said:
How many more "isolated incidents" does it take for people to wake up to it being their normal behaviour?
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Could you explain exactly what you mean there ?

Surely you aren't saying that is normal behaviour for staffies :nono:
 
Gremlin said:
Could you explain exactly what you mean there ?

Surely you aren't saying that is normal behaviour for staffies :nono:
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Based on previous comments I would suggest that is exactly what is being said.

Haters will be haters and sadly there is often nothing that can be done to open their somewhat narrow minds.
 
Stratman said:
How many more "isolated incidents" does it take for people to wake up to it being their normal behaviour?
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Yeah, you're right of course, every staffy in the world is a snarling killing machine!! :bang:
Clearly you know nothing about the breed whatsoever!!
 
Taken from Wiki

Since the British Dangerous Dogs Act made it illegal to own breeds such as the pit bull terrier, the press have reported many cases of attacks by Staffordshire Bull Terriers or dogs described as a "Staffordshire bull terrier cross" on children, adults and family pets. The RSPCA fears that breeders are renaming pit bull terriers as Staffordshire bull terriers to avoid prosecution...

Seems some people can't tell the difference :shrug:
 
Truth is that certain breeds can be more dangerous than others in the wrong hands - those of the bull terrier 'type' have a very strong bite and often won't let go whereas some others will bite but then leave.
As some above have mentioned it's almost always that the connection is back to an inappropriate owner, often with police history as seems to be the case in this latest incident.
 
jonbeeza said:
Taken from Wiki

Since the British Dangerous Dogs Act made it illegal to own breeds such as the pit bull terrier, the press have reported many cases of attacks by Staffordshire Bull Terriers or dogs described as a "Staffordshire bull terrier cross" on children, adults and family pets. The RSPCA fears that breeders are renaming pit bull terriers as Staffordshire bull terriers to avoid prosecution...

Seems some people can't tell the difference :shrug:
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and Wiki is a great source of fact ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, NOT, i think you'll find again this one had been reported as dangerous, the child was playing in a back alley the dog got out, on a side note i have just spent 3 days racing at a flyball competition, saw plenty of snappy collies, but not one snappy staffie, even though there are loads of them racing in a very excitable atmosphere, why because they are well socialised and well trained, both with people and other dogs
 
Truth is people have a total misconception of dogs and what they were bred, bull baiting has been illegal for a very long time in this country, can't see any of todays bulldogs lasting long in the rings, so please don't quite that old adage.
How many times have I heard said of a dog that attacks another dog out on a walk "what if that was a child", I can tell you it wouldn't have happened a child would have been perfectly safe.
pretty obviously this dog wasn't trained or socialised, can i say now I am not a lover of the bull breeds they don't appeal to me, but please don't tar all of them with the same brush
 
Wiltshire Police said the boy was found in a neighbour's garden in Swanage Walk after the attack on Sunday evening.

I have to ask what a 2 year old child was doing on his own in a neighbours garden?

Heather
 
All dogs are dangerous. All people are dangerous. All sharp objects are dangerous.
 
all dogs are dangerous in the wrong hands

here's my 3 1/2 stone staff looking after my 16 day old grandson, not unattended as that is irresponsible ownership

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