What Is Wrong With People?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-45464650
too tight to get their dog spayed? I just don't get it, I know Staffies are not the most favoured dog in the world but surely if you don't want the puppies it's easy to spay the chitb? These look too young to be taken away from the mum anyway. Some low life scum just should not be allowed to have a dog.

[Tilly2]

As you can see, I have changed my avatar to a less scary one. :-)

I don't want you having nightmares.

[Rockrose]

Worst dog bites I ever got was from a Labrador, never had one from a staffy or pit bull and I’ve been around them as much as I have labs

[AuntLydia]

A labrador will bite and leave go. A staffie will bite and hold on for dear life, that is the difference. They are bred for the sole purpose of fighting and are hard wired to clamp their jaw .

[Tilly2]

When, and if, you train a staffie to 'leave', it will 'leave'. I can take anything from my dog's mouth by telling her to 'leave'.

She releases her grip. Then, I might, just might, give it back to her. It depends what it is.

Just saying.

[Rockrose]

Well I wish someone had told that to the lab that bit me as I still have the scar

[AuntLydia]

So rockrose, you are saying that the lab that bit you held on? Shook you like a rag doll? No one is saying any dog is not capable of biting as they all are. Just some are hardwired through years and years of breeding to hold on. A labrador was bred to retrieve - collect something and give it up. Staffies have been bred to latch on and fight.

[ladybirder]

Tilly xx

[kvalidir]

I've certainly seen a Great Dane bite and hold on and shake without letting go Ladybirder and they are not a Bull breed, that was terrifying ( not my dog).

[Rockrose]

It didn’t shake me like a raggdoll as I was a bloody site bigger than it, but it certainly didn’t let go held on until my father prised his jaws off my leg.

[kvalidir]

I think it's understandable that people get upset when a breed they have a lot of experience with is in essence assassinated because of the action of a few dogs of that breed that are owned by morons. It's not a breed problem it's a person problem.

[Zacs-Master]

Another great question title, me old china.

[hereIam]

AL talks a lot of sense on this thread and I have now had my say and won't be back, so defend away kval !

[kvalidir]

Oh sorry HIA I thought you were referring to Tilly's 18.24 post x

[Tilly2]

I had changed my avatar to that of my German Shepherd. I have since reverted to my Staffie.

[Flonska]

Thank you for explaining that Tilly, I thought my eyes were deceiving me :-).

[Tilly2]

Sorry about that, Flonska. :-)

[AuntLydia]

HereIam wrote: //AL talks a lot of sense on this thread //

Thank you for your kind words hereIam.

[rowanwitch]

I have known lovely gentle pit bull types, and evil toy dogs and so much is down to owners not training their dogs properly. However there are breeds with specific bloodlines that have been kept separate for guard dogs and fighting. Dobermans have been separated in this way with the vast majority now as soft as you could wish. The main German line however are bred to work and attack to defend property or persons. I have been bitten by two dogs in my life, a dachshund and a terrier cross that terrorised a whole neighbourhood. I do think as there is such a lot of uncontrolled breeding with dogs traditionally used for fighting a license to keep them should include a requirement to have the dog neutered. Those identified where this hasn't happened should be taken and destroyed. This would mean the loss of these breeds but with no traditional working purpose I think it might be worth doing. I would include pit bulls, and crosses, large type staffies these are the ones usually bred for fighting, a simple weight height check would distinguish between them, and crosses especially with mastiffs or Rottweiler s .