Ooooh thanks!


Aye, the dog that attacked mine last week was offlead down the main street.


Funnily enough, my dog recently met a wee Chinese Crested and was really perturbed!

Your forgiven.

Really? Mmh, that will be why our dog was always pouring condiments over me when I was a kid.

Are you playing devils advocate?

As a child who has had a boxer dog used as a guard dog since I was seven I have to say most dogs only attack if provoked, my Dog is the most sweet lovable dog, he is excellent with kids and still an excellant guard dog, he doesn't even bite and is terrified of terriers lol

Quite a few members of my familiy have had staffies, and they've been brilliant pets. I've had german shepherds and scotties and the general rule around the whole family is that you NEVER leave the dogs and kids alone together.

All the kids in our family have always been taught to respect the pets, and to leave them alone if they're eating, sleeping etc.

A friend of mine has a lab that's always being pulled and climbed on by her little boy, the kid even bites it's tail. I've tried to tell her that it's wrong but she thinks that the dog adores her kid so much that he's OK with it...

If you were to look on the KC website, you'd find that Staffies are the only dog they actually reccomend to be with children. Doubtless for all the reasons mentioned. Their innate good nature, high pain threshold and loyalty being the primary reasons.

What a load of shite.
I grew up with German Shepherds from birth, my uncle used to breed them and i now have 2 of my own-one of which is a Rottie cross. And I've had them with my young children.
Its how they are trained/looked after and treated.

Oh and the only dog I've ever been bitten by?.....A 'lovely' Lab. Again not the dogs fault but an irresponsible owner having no control.

I have heard that the majority of dog bites are labs. Partly cos there's a lot of them, and partly cos everyone thinks they are so lovely (which they usually are) and they therefore throw proper caution to the winds. All dogs need treating with respect, until you know them well.

Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.
Similar thing to the yappy aggressive little terriers with 'small man syndrome' who sometimes get a telling off (bark and lunge) from the Dog I walk.
I'm the one who gets the dirty looks, well they shouldn't have let their yappy terrier carry on following and getting close to my dog without calling their dog back once.

It's alright though it's only a yappy terrier and the yapping and attitude should be ignored because it's small, apparently.

I was bitten, and hung onto, by a Jack Russell once. I was on my motorbike. I started off, must have been doing 50 by the time the stupid thing let go. It tumbled down the road for ages, but the last sight I had of it in the mirror, it was giving it attitude again. It made a hole in my boot, too.

Makes you mad doesn't it? i am proud to say I have very well trained GSD's, they have been taught not to run over to over dogs, and will stay and lie down at my command from any distance.
Yet even when they are 'down' and some yappy little dog will come flying over and i still get the dirty looks.

My dogs adore children (having been raised with 2) and i know they would never hurt a child....they just want to play ball....but i still will keep them on a lead when there are children about. Its plain common sense and good ownership.
And i hate the 'ooooh he just wants to play brigade'

changed my mind

Oh, now I have heard and seen that staffies are the worse for biting both others dogs and children and, in some cases, even killing them. I have never known a lab to kill either another dog or a human

Some of us have seen your 'labs don't have it in them' type stuff before as well as some other questionable stuff.

Oh and what are you inferring, it's a Lab so biting isn't a problem, but if it's Staff or something else it's a serious matter?
Looks like we're going back to questionable behaviour being ignored if it's certain breeds 'oh it's only a little Terrier' so ignore the aggressive barking because the bite won't be so bad.

What seems most important instead of arguing which breed is worst is to know your own dog (because even within breeds there can be huge differences in temperament) and to take precautions to make sure your dog does not have an opportunity or a need to bite. I have owned several who hated other dogs or human and have never allowed a situation where they could bite.
Duncan is nervous aggressive and would if provoked bite a human, so we never put him in a position where he feels he needs to bite and the worst you will hear is his bark.
Children and dogs should both be supervised and protected from each other (children can be just as violent as a dog IMO).
I am pretty sure Mollie would never bite but why take a chance we make sure she doesn't feel she has no choice.

They look like pit bulls to me - especially the blue one.

Not at all, I have never in all the years of my life seen a labrador attack or bite either a person or another dog but I have seen staffies attack people and other dogs. And if I am honest, an attack from a staffie would be very hard to stop, they don't let go

Theres two lab ones that i know of and i suspect if you scour the net you will find more, just as you will for staffs rotties and other breeds.

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

http://www.dogmagazine.net/archives/...r-kills-child/

Any dog can attack and can kill depending on their size and the size of their prey at the time, it's all about good breeding and raising a well rounded, trained and balanced dog

Really don't want to go though this blinkered nonsense again.

Yeah you've seen Staffies attack, then go on about would be very hard to stop odd how your apparent personal experience turns into supposition there...

Then don't bother to read my blinkered nonsense, just keep making those excuses for staffies.

I hd two rottweilers growing up, I was 2 years old when we got them and they were the softest and daftest dogs ever, never went for anyone.

What you mean is, you can type whatever you like and nobody should call you on it, stop typing it then, end of problem.

Maybe I'll forget the point I made in that post too.
Yeah you've seen Staffies attack, then go on about would be very hard to stop, odd how your apparent personal experience turns into supposition there...

No I don't mean I can type whatever and like and not be called on it. You were the one who said you didn't want to go through my blinkered nonsense again, so I suggested perhaps you didn't read it.

I am only writing of my personal experiences of dogs, I am not going to go into detail about them, because it would not be very nice.

I have read many posts on here suggesting that Labs have attacked people and when they show the links it is very often crossed-labs or it happened in a different country. I have never seen a labrador attack another human being or even another dog, I cannot say the same for staffies. If that is blinkered, then I am glad I am blinkered because when I walk through the park with my extremely well behaved labrador, I will avoid staffies because I am never sure how they are going to react to me and my dog. Whether it is the owner or the dog to blame I do not care because the safety of my gentle lab is more important.