To think that staffies, are publicised badly?

[EllenandBump]

My sister and her partner have two amazing staffies who are brilliant with my 18month old son i trust them explicitly with him. I also know two other staffies that are exactly the same with him. Sometimes i think it is the people that raise them that causes it, and not the breed of dog. I know a staffie can be really full on and energetic, but that does not make them aggressive. also i think its unfair on the rspca rehoming website that all the staffies have to go with children at least 8 +. I think this reinforces that it is not safe to have staffies and young children. My little boy loves them bouncing all around him, and as soon as he cries they go straight to him to check that he is okay. Maybe they should assess every family and every dog individually, rather than generalise them!

I can see why neds lads would like these dogs as they do look tough, but aren't they rather ugly?

YANBU

Piglets Staffies are the bets dogs EVER - fact. Crap guard dogs, although anyone breaking in to my house will be licked into submission so not too crap I suppose.

Peel - ugly???!!! Id post a pic of mine and you'd change your mind. She is very pretty but has a really distinctive mark on her face so would out me to any friends / rellies on here if I did so you'll have to take my word for it. Ugly.....

Fabby - granted Staff owners have a reputation as out and out knobbers, even though it's knid of an outdated reputation as the knobends have generally gone from Staffs to Akitas to Huskies to who knows what poor breed will be their next disposable accessory of choice...
BUT: it might be that you see so many Staffs off lead because often they simply don't need leads. As a breed, they're biddable, easy to train and naturally very eager to please, and also like to stay really close to their beloved owners, so often they just don't need to be on a lead.
Often - especially in towns - the 'naice' dogs (labradoodles, cockerpoodles, pug-russells) with their 'naice' owners have to be on leads - often those annoying extending ones - because they're not well trained and well exercised to stay at heel.

I really don't like dogs but the only dog I ever went a bit soft over was a Staffie - so affectionate and the daftest thing ever.

I think that (in the right hands) they are lovely. Sadly they've been adopted as a status dog for low IQ twats, and the dogs end up developing the sort of angry personalites that we all would if we were tormented and abused on a daily basis.

lol at whoever wrote 'cairn terrorist'.

Staffies give me the heebie jeebies too