We imported it from the States.

I take on board your view, however I have personal experience of a lab who chewed through plasterboard walls, and badly attacked other dogs, there are many threads on here about breeds other than staffys taking their owners for walks and needing to be carefully managed due to dog aggressive traits (some breeds being a similar size and weight to the APT)

Yes the pups can be bought relatively cheaply and this is definitely a lure for people but lets not forget a fair amount of these chavs, thugs, whatever, have access to money from unsavoury practices, or also the dogs they use are not pedigree either by staffy UKKC) or PIT (AKC) they are just diluted bitzas with a specific look/type

Absolutely not.

i think this is one thread where people will never agree. Personally I do think PB's are dangerous, my dog has been attacked on two separate occasions by PB 'types' and I have also seen a yorkie be killed by two of them.
This is not to say I have anything against sensible owners of Staffies, but to make PB's legal in the Uk would, in my opinion be a bad move, and dangerous to society because of the scum who would want to own them.

ive often broken stupid laws, thasts what stupid laws are their for

says he spliffing up watching his downloaded DVD typing on a forum Tony Blair was a war crim, he should have been shot!

Not at all,however had the pitt been legal here would we having been seeing alot of pitts and there x's in rescue in stead of the SBT and it's x's ?

They already do,they also know where to get these dogs from too.

So now it is not even down the the question of if Pit bulls are dangerous, it is about shelter issues, oh please!!
A dog breed being extinguished due to that reason is ridiculous. A breed should not be banned because of over population, if so the reasons some have given here makes it sound like the SBT breed should be on the list too
Do you know how much time and money have been spent on trying to enforce this legislation, bucket loads, if they redirected it to shelters or educating the public about over population I think you would be surprised about how much better use the money and resources could be used for.
Carrying on about, it doesn't matter it is illegal to own one, that is not the point of the debate. It is a case of are they more dangerous instead it is for shelter issues. Sounds like DDA should start banning more dogs then as banning PBT hasn't solved this issue either

We are not talking about introducing a new breed. We are talking about legalising a breed that is here already...always has been.

The link leads to a case of animal cruelty. It's got nothing to do with breed, pit bull, BSL or dog-fighting.

If you think that BSL (which doesn't touch on animal cruelty in any way whatsoever) has reduced abuse cases I'd love to see some evidence.

Has it reduced since '91 when the DDA came into force? I don't think so and I find the idea that people who want to be cruel to a dog will not do so because pit bulls are illegal to be implausible.


You didn't tackle my earlier question.

If the homeless dog crisis is sufficient justification for a pit bull ban, why isn't it sufficient for a staffie ban as well? Or perhaps you think it is?

Besides pit bulls and what the DDA bans are two different things.

We are a funny old breed us Brits, be tend to get a bit defensive when we are criticised, we tend not to be to friendly when someone calls us or our laws "stupid" you may have a few friends here, who agree with you, but it is not the majority , the majority of the UK, when called "stupid" will give back what we get!!


Are you,?? how do you know it wont??