I totaly agree with Archer - good post

since when has the american bulldog been on the dda? not in this country anyway!

Richard, don’t you think it’s a bit strong to call them killers. The poor boy that was killed by an American bulldog was terrible but to label a breed killers is IMO irresponsible. It’s one thing for the media to jump on the bandwagon with the killer headlines but I didn’t think I would see that sort of thing here

I agree with you Archer actually, thats why I have come away without paying any deposit. They are adamant that the pups are ABs, which I was sure they werent and thats why I posted just in case, I was the one in the wrong.

Hi Jenny,

Their not, unless they it's changed recently.

I'm not sure but I think there's a bit which is ambiguous at best which states "bull type breed"

The legislation actually states (along with the 3 specific breeds) 'pit bull type'.Any dog,even if it can be proved to be a cross breed can be siezed and destroyed under this part of the act if the law sees fit.There have been cases of dane x's ,staff crosses etc falling foul of the law because althuogh they were not pit bulls they were judged to be of pit bull type.

Like afc says just because one went mad, we don't know the reason why, it's not fair to class them all like that.

Any breed can have 'bad apples'.....poorly bred,badly raised dogs occur in nearly every breed at one time or another...doesn't mean the breed is bad.However unfortunately Joe Public will always jump to conclusions and tar all with the same brush

Not really! a dog which has been made over a 100 years just to fight and kill will always want to kill (it's not like any one has ever tryed to breed out the fighting part of them. Ok I know it's not the dogs thought it's the people that did this who really should be shot.

You your self should know that dogs that are bread to do one thing are very good at it and in this case the dogs have been bread to fight and thats what they want to do. and I think the quote i made shows this.

Sorry have to disagree, being brought up with multiple Staffies, and most of my family mmbers at present owning them and EBT's, i have never seen them want to 'kill and fight' as you say.
If this is the case than according to your statement they would try and kill everything, well we had an elderly staffie and our present JRT when she was a pup, and the JRT was the boss, the elderly staffie used to sit and take it all.
It is a rather sweeping statement you have made, generalising that all bull breeds are killing machines with no other want than to fight and kill, this is something that could, and probably has offended many of the bull breed owners amongst us.
best wishes