I agree and how do you change a breed trait and instinct ?

POTENTIAL is just that though -- potential. Like you say there are plenty of breeds who potentially can take issue with other dogs. If you chose to own one of these breeds, you do so knowing full well how the dogs temperament could end up in the future.

Why would anyone want to ENCOURAGE these undesirable traits by breeding dog aggressive dogs? what purpose does having dog aggression serve now, in a country that is getting more and more anti dog by the year? it doesn't. No one can surely say that being dog aggressive 'defines' what a Staffie is? yes it was part of the breeds history and even with selective breeding will always be a potential risk, but I don't understand actively encouraging breeding for these traits in this day and age.

So dog aggression defines what a Staffie is? plenty of terrier breeds retain their feisty spirit while tolerating other dogs.

I know what you mean too but I do think that people can start to breed it out, lets face it, their 'characteristic' of DA is putting them and others at risk, I've had to split up a few fights of bully breeds, and I do trust them not to bite me in a fight more then my own dogs, but I don' believe that being da makes them what they are, and can actually hinder people seeing the true dog, and although theres the possiblity of any dog being DA I do think through careful breeding, and not encourging it by breeding from known DA dogs whatever there place in the ring, things can start to improve for everyone, and that maybe one day, even if we never see it, through careful breeding you can have better chance of having a staff that acts like a staff in everyway apart from their behaviour around other dogs, and maybe then the pricks will leave them alone, but while breeders are encourging the trait by breeding certain dogs who are DA, the stafford will more then likely always be in jeopardy for the same reasons.

nowhere did i say that!! of course i wouldnt advise it!
....but on the same token it doesnt mean the offspring wouldnt be anyway

and plenty dont..its a lottery

main majority of them around here(a fair few!) are annoyed cos their dogs are not d.a ....good job one of Tupacs fav playthings a staffie type lol.

How irrisponsible of them

Do those of you that are suggesting that we stop breeding from any Stafford that has ever shown signs of Dog aggression, realise that you have just eliminated about 90% of the genepool ?

Blimey, so 90% of Staffies are dog aggressive? where did you get those statistics from?

Even if that's the case, again I would ask: given how many thousands of Staffies are DYING because there are not enough places in rescues and new homes to take them in, would that be a terrible thing?

Maybe a 'break' from breeding Staffies would be a good thing UNTIL the rescue crisis has calmed down?

And I again agree with LABRADORK: why on earth would you want to deliberately and consciously breed from dogs if you know full well they are dog aggressive?