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Location: Surrey
Joined: Jun 2010
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If it's not being kept under control, to the point where other dogs/people are being put at risk, I would report it, same as a non-banned breed. Yes, the dog may end up PTS which is a great shame but there are worse things than euthanasia and I'd hate to think my silence had led to a dog being used for dog fighting or that another dog or a person had got injured because I hadn't reported it.
Sometimes it's easy to get the wrong end of the stick with a quick glance at a situation though so I'd want to be sure of what I'd seen. I remember when I worked in a petshop, a young lad came in with a lovely Staffie, he'd taken it off some travellers who'd threatened to dump it. One of the first things he did was go to buy it a collar to replace the rope it had come with, and asked where our studded collars were, so we thought, oh, here we go, status dog alert..turns out he'd apparently been told that it was the law that Staffies needed to wear studded collars and all he was guilty of was being a bit gullible
We got the Staffie fitted with a nice secure collar (non-studded!) and comfy harness, and told him all about food - he ended up getting it NatureDiet as he wanted to feed it the best he could, and promised to keep us updated. I didn't stay at that petshop much longer but he definately seemed like a genuine bloke, who could've so easily been misjudged walking down the road with his Staffie all 'blinged' up with a studded collar.