I have to disagree with that I dont believe that the staffie is fashionable or certainly not anymore. Sadly i think now people have realised that Staffies arent really any good as "hard" dogs have now moved on to crossing them with other things, and either abandon, neglect or in the most extreme cases kill their Staffies so they dont have to deal with them anymore.

They arent fashionable for the right reasons, and ONLY a dog ownership test will allow that to change. If its not Staffies it will be another breed and i dont want the same thing to happen to any other breed.

Many tough image breeds are useless which is why I see no reason to allow the introduction of some of the really tough dogs to the UK.

The dog owner test needs to be really carefully constructed to weed out potential trouble makers and not to penalise genuine dog lovers. I think this will be very difficult to do. As has been seem with football hooligans; some organisers are lawyers by day and thugs at the weekend...

Nobody knows because nowhere keeps (or kept) centralised records and even if they did they would not include dogs like Cassey, Missey or Annie or others on the link I provided whose owners euthanised the dogs themselves rather than subject them to further suffering.

Fortunately for the Dutch their government was more rational than many and has repealed BSL based on the evidence such as it is and a healthy dose of common sense.

The Dutch would But this doesn't sound too liberal, is it out of date?

"There are restrictions as to what breed of dog can be owned in the Netherlands, this is due to the potentially dangerous nature of some breeds.

While the Pit bull and some dangerous cross-breeds are banned, certain other pure bred dogs are allowed but must be muzzled and leashed in public: Rottweiller, Argentinian Dogo, Brazilian Fila, Mastino Italiana, and American Staffordshire Terrier."

Out of date, I think.


http://66.102.9.132/search?q=cache:l...&ct=clnk&gl=uk

I couldn't make that link work, but found the news here: http://www.expatica.com/nl/news/loca...-bull-ban.html

But not everyone is happy: http://www.dogsbite.org/blog/2010/01...ice-other.html
Interesting statistics at the top of page. Of course its pro Breed specific legislation.

Those stats are reminiscent of the Clifton Report. I can't be bothered to list the errors in methodology.

I agree with it on paper but practically how is it going to work? The cost would be too great and the ones who could afford the test after paying for all involved in dog ownership tests would end up being a wealthy few. The limited restrictions on dog ownership now are ineffective due to cost of manning the laws let alone the cost of controlling dog ownership tests

I give you stats, you consider it just numbers but you find one and it is more than just number, how is yours less fatally floored than mine