Staffs are they all vicious???

[Love That Collie]

You carry pepper spray? How many people out there carry pepper spray in the case that their dog attack someone or something? As was said, the owner didn't know his dog would attack anything. Even if your problem with "calling a dog off" is that when you have a particularily drivey dog, in drive, it may or may not listen. they were in drive and I was preventing them from doing what they wanted to do.

I don't fool with pepper spray but that's not to say that it probably wouldn't do the job nine times out of ten but my luck I'd be the tenth example around here, we have a loose dog problem in our county and with dogs NOT being contained properly even on their own property, vicious or not........I carry Mace tear gas, IT does the job and I have used it.

[CathyBogart]

I own a very driven terrier-type dog and I would never be stupid enough to let him off leash in an area where, say....a squirrel might run by. It would be sheer idiocy on my part to do something like that, to put him a position where he is bound to fail.

When I've seen dogs get into it at the park, the best solution I've seen (if the owners don't have control) is to grab them by their hand legs and drag them away from the action. Sure works better that trying to BEAT a dog into submission.

No, Staffs are not all aggressive, and almost never are they "vicious". Any breed can bite, maim, or kill a person.