Comments on: Bull Breed Discrimination is Clogging up Rescue System

By: Ally

Ally — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:35:33 +0000

Reading all the comments above mad me really sad. I have 4 staff’s and they are all great together. They love people and are not dog aggressive at all. Owners of this type of breed are making the mistake of not socialising their dogs around people and other dogs. What needs to stop is people breeding just purely for money. These people are not responsible dog owners, if they were they would not be selling their pups to just anyone for a quick buck. That really disgusts me. Breeding should never be purely about money.

It seems KC registered dogs are being sold at extortionate price’s to some people who are just wanting a family pet. If these KC breeders stopped being so greedy we may not have got ourselves into this mess in the first place. Back street breeding of KC registered dogs is giving people a licence to make money. The KC should take a leaf out of the working type dog folk who breed fit and healthy dogs and do not charge the earth. And not forgetting they don’t sell their dogs to just anyone. You don’t hear of the working type dog being abandoned because there not bred for money but to work.

Something needs to be put in place to stop all these dogs being bred in the first place. Maybe by getting rid of the KC altogether this would solve the problem. It would certainly reduce the number of dogs being bred if there was no money to be made.

The newspapers are also partly to blame for the rise in the number of dogs being abandoned with their exaggerated stories of devil dogs. Scaremongering people into believing the breed is vicious. Ok, there are Staffy attacks on people and other dogs, but it is the owners that are the problem not the breed of dog. The staffy is one of the most loyal breeds around. Lets face it, like most breeds they were never bred for the show ring, but to work.

I only wish I had lots of money to help all those unfortunate Staffs.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 04:08:40 +0000

I have a 7 month old stffordshire. She is the greatest dog that I have ever been around. They have the greatest personalities. It’s all about how you train and treat these dogs of the bull breads. If they are treated badly they will be aggressive. They know how their owner or new people are feeling. People don’t understand that the smaller breed dogs have the same insticts as these bull breeds. My staffordshire (cadence) is actually scared of the agressive small breed dogs and doesn’t want anthing to do with them. She pulls me away from them. She doesn’t bark or growl at them. If my husband was with me now,he is in Iraq. I know for a fact that we would be adopting a rescued staffordshire so cadence would have a friend.
Keep up the good work Ashley

By: Neil Bur on

Neil Bur on — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 09:22:38 +0000

Ryan O’Meara spoke on the radio about this extremely serious problem only yesterday (Friday)

Not sure if people can access it?

By: Alison Green

Alison Green — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:20:37 +0000

“it makes me sick to think of it but this has become the reality of the job, when it comes to staffis and rottis…………….the people who get these animals and let them go don’t realise the difficulties and torment that the people who work with the dogs go through!”

And yet those at the core end are ignored when it comes to guidance or legislation regarding the problem. Instead who do the government turn too?

The Kennel Club!!!!!!!

By: celine

celine — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:18:14 +0000

well written is what i say, 3 days ago we had 5 staffis in the stray kennels, one was so old we thought we would have to destroy her, she was full of beans but she fell over all the time, amazingly we found someone willing to take her so her last days would not be in a kennel, she is now living with 5 other dogs.
then we were down to 4 yesterday, but overnight another 2 were handed in, so this morning i had 6 staffis to contend with! In my panic not to get stuck with them, because no rescue around us will take them, i had a chat with my manager and we agreed not to charge the owners as long as when they came to the kennels they brought a collar and identity disc with surname, address and phone number on, and they agreed to pay for the do to be microchipped at £16…..of course thay all agreed cos it is better than paying £52…….3 were claimed today and i rehomed another but we still have 2 left. One is a 5 month old male staffi and lovely so i hope we will find him someone soon, the other is a 2 year old male who is lovely with people but very dog aggressive and very other animal aggressive, for the last few days i have thought of nothing else apart from what we can do with him……do we keep him indefinately in the hope we may get a sensible person for him (not very hopeful) or do we make the decision to destroy him before we get too attached? it makes me sick to think of it but this has become the reality of the job, when it comes to staffis and rottis…………….the people who get these animals and let them go don’t realise the difficulties and torment that the people who work with the dogs go through!

By: Amanda

Amanda — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:00:12 +0000

Yes I agree that article is spot on. Something needs to be organised and as a matter of urgency, many rescues contacted have long waiting lists of dogs needing a placement, sometimes months long, the Staffords, crosses, American Bulldogs, Rottweilers etc are in crisis-there simply are NO PLACES LEFT TO GO for many.

it is demoralising for everyone caught up in it
Amanda

By: ANON

ANON — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:44:51 +0000

Your article is spot on. I work with rescue and pounds with bull breeds and the current situation is out of control. The majority of these dogs are perfectly homeable but the consistent attack of the breeds via the media and the current legislation vaguness’s has put a death sentence on the heads of many many good family pets.

I am often called to take a dog following bad publicity as the owners are concerned a dog that has shown no sign of aggression may “turn”.

The situation has gotten to a stage where even the youngest of pups are refused by rescue groups because they do not have the room for another bull breed. I know of one such rescue who has a total of 40, yes forty puppies under 3 months of age and no one will take them. They are now looking 200 miles away for places.

Sadly however this is not something new. This has been brewing for years. I know the Kennel Club had a meeting around two years ago about the problem but seem to have done nothing about it!

Something has to be done NOW.