Staffs are they all vicious???

[Husky15]

What amazes me is that Gwen just asked a simple question that someone with great knowledge on the breed could have answered - instead of everyone getting into yet another debate on staffies and pitties.

No one knows whether this thread was made to create waves or not, but like I said, someone could have just answered her question and saved all this fighting and childishness.

I think that there has been enough threads like this now that everyone should be able to control themself and act maturely.

[Love That Collie]

Quote Miss Z:from Originally Posted by Love That Collie

FYI, no, I don't believe that I did know conclusively that you are a female.

What on earth does that have to do with anything? I read through both of yours and Kym's posts and really, it's a little childish bringing such matters down to bantering between our genders:End Quote......................................


Maybe you better go back and re-read again.

[areias]

I agree with Kay...prey drive is totally different from aggression, or "viciousness". And dog aggressive does not automatically translate to human aggressive. I should know, I have a dog that is aggressive towards strange dogs! And he has NO aggressive tendencies towards people-we have kids that mess with him all the time.

I totally forget the sources, but I have read before that if someone had a Pittie back in the day to fight, and it bit a person, it would be destroyed. You cannot have a dog in a fighting ring that bites people...just bringing it to the ring could be dangerous, especially if the dog bit someone in the crowd. They would be culled.

People say pits turn on people. There is a trigger, something is not right...no dog "turns" (unless there is a medical reason). What I wonder about is the people that get a pit, and use it as a guard dog...then the dog either escapes, or someone "rescues" it, and it gets put in a new home...and then it has a tendency to bite. And I don't know what posessed people to get pits as guard dogs in the first place...that wasn't their intended purpose.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again...I have been bitten by a lab, a bichon, and a bull terrier. Agressively by the lab and bichon, and playfully chomped down on by the bull terrier.

I don't want to drag this in here, but I will. And I expect to get bashed for it. Anyone who is 100% against pits, is racist against that breed. You can say the SAME thing for the races of people. Definately not getting into a racist argument, and not trying to offend anyone, but it is said that when black people move into a neighborhood, crime goes up, the neighborhood value goes down...etc etc. Not that I believe in this, but that is what is said. Not every black person steals, and not every white person is an angel. It's the same exact thing with breeds of dog.
I saw a bumper sticker once...it was awesome..it said "STOP RACIAL PROFILING" with a picture of a black man, white man, asian woman, and a pit bull.

[Karen]

I am closing this thread. Enough has been said, and the original question has been answered. No further bickering need happen.