Britain's Favourite Dog - Channel 5

Horrible dogs. Great if you want kids torn apart on a housing scheme though.

I love dogs , very much . Over the years , I've loved and cared for 4 . A Jack Russell , A Labrador , and An Alsation . All 3 , were Great dogs , and I'll never forget them . My last dog , was A Staffordshire Bull Terrier . She was a really Great dog . When she was put down by the PDSA , 3 years ago , I carried her home , and when I got home , I dug a hole in the garden , wrapped her , in her favourite blanket [SAME BLANKET IN PIC] and I buried her , along with her , collar and lead . . She was as sweet , and as friendly , as any dog , you could ever meet . Rest In Peace , Tess .

I've not seen a bicycle used as a dog collar before

Yeh , I see what you mean , Crisp .

Nice looking dog - great coat. Staffies love the sun.

My photo is of Jess who we had to have put to sleep before Christmas.

There's a paraplegic chap in Taunton who has a staffie as an assistance dog. Never requires a lead - she simply follows his chair everywhere, through the town, across the road, between the traffic, the lot.

She carries a big plastic toy bone, and the only time she ever puts it down is when her owner is writing out his bets in Ladbrokes, and she takes the opportunity to have a roll on the carpeting in the shop. Completely ignores my own dog.

Possibly the most ferocious-looking dog I've ever seen, and at the same time one of the most obedient and soppiest.

staffies are lovely dogs, the problem is if they are abused and become difficult they are
so strong and powerful they can do damage. i'm stating the obvious i know but if a poodle
attacks me i think i can fend it off. a staffie can tear you apart.
if you look at dog attacks it is a mixed bunch but if you look at serious injury it is the
same breeds again & again.
IMO the working dogs and medium size pastoral dogs make the best pets. eager to please &
very trainable.
Having said that as long as you treat a dog well and most importantly exercise it properly
almost any breed is fine.

I Agree with you completely , northanlite .

Did anyone vote for Alan Turing by mistake?

I'm sure that if he had been one of the entrants he would have won on the bridle.

....thinking about it...I may have voted for the staffie as the ultimate icon of the 20th century...

Staffies are in the vast majority of cases just fine, but like all dogs it's the odd one or two that cause problems.

I'd ban all powerful breeds of dogs, because of the potential damage they can inflict if they do attack.

If I kept a dog I'd be torn between keeping an Alsatian or a collie.
Despite Alsatians being  near the top of my list of banned dogs.

I'd say a collie is the perfect all round dog. Medium size, very intelligent and easy to train if you know what you're doing.
But like the Alsatian shedding fur is a problem.

I should add that if I bought a dog and it showed aggressive temperament, I'd have it put down and find another that didn't.

Do Love a Rottweiler... Hate the look with an undocked tail though.

Funnily enough most Rotties are as daft as a brush.

A friend had one it was so soft that when it was off the lead and heard a car backfire it would run home.

Is there a gender bias with Staffie attacks? I'll have met hundreds and never had a seconds doubt with any staffie bitch, exraordinarily friendly. Dogs on the other hand can be quite aggressive ime.

Why risk having a dog that if it's wired wrong or "triggered" (perhaps by an offensive tweet) is a killing machine, that statistically is involved in a HUGE amount of nasty incidents and fatalities, when there are 100s of safer dog breeds out there that are nicer to look at and don't have the risk. The cost/benefit is all one column. The wrong one. We don't owe it to the staffie god to keep the breed and similar breeds in existence. Whenever there is an attack on the news you can pretty much bet it's going to be a staffie or something staffie-like. And often it ISN'T owned by some chav who "treated it wrong".

Ok random test. Search google news. First uk hit for "dog attack". Well wtf, "bull terrier".
http://www.radioexe.co.uk/news-and-features/local-news/dog-attack-on-very-young-child/
"The dog is described as a white English Bull Terrier..."
Wasn't going to be a ****ing cockapoo was it.