Need to get rid of dog !

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We bought a dog 8 months ago where we have tried to train him.... he doesn't listen he still nips and snaps and it's now getting to the point where he is jumping up and going for my toddler and you can hear his jaw snap ! It's scaring me as I can't leave them in the room together he does it to me and my bf he tries to bite his ankles and he's the master so it's in heard of isn't it ? He knows not to go on the couch yet still runs in covered in mud and going on there he's not allowed up stairs but as soon as back is turned he's up there.... we've always told him no and made sure he knows and he does get praised when he's good (which is never ) he chews everything up in site and will just take food of the side and out of my boys hand, I'm currently pregnant and it's getting me so anxious ! He goes on walks everyday so he's excersised a lot. He doesn't listen to me whatso ever and when I play with him he gets aggressive to the point it scares me. Any advice would be helpful ? No nastiness please I'm at by whits end

Maybe just be like all the nice ones and guide me not drag me down when feeling my worst and not sure what to do ! Instead they have made my feel like the shittest person alive!

A 10 month old puppy who is still mouthing and a toddler shouldn't be playing together. Neither you nor your child have quick enough reactions to ensure that they can play safely together.

Training a dog requires serious commitment and quite frankly if your idea of training is about saying no after the event, you're not training but simply punishing.

If he wees in his crate, it's your fault.
If he mouths your toddler, it's your fault.
If he jumps the stair gate, it's your fault.

That's not a judgement but simply an awareness that a GOOD dog owner has. Training is designed to prevent the event from happening not to punish the dog when it has.

Regardless of how you got here, the fact is that you simply do not have the time, the commitment, or the knowledge required to keep your children and the dog safe and happy. Rehome sooner rather than later, make a considerable donation to the rehoming charity and promise yourself that you won't ever get into this situation again.

He's going in the cage because you haven't housetrained him, puppy pads are confusing - they make dogs think it's ok to toilet inside.

You need to go back to basics with housetraining, change the bedding in his crate, clean the crate with biological washing stuff so that it doesn't smell like a toilet to him and take him outside when he's likely to need to go and reward him for going there, then clean up every time he goes in the crate the same way.

"I don't tell him off I just say no in a stern voice and look him in the eye so he knows,"

He doesn't know, dogs don't work like that.

He messes his bed. So he's shut in a crate and gets distressed/bored.
Earlier you said kids played with the dog. Now they just stroke it?
This dog isn't trained. You bought a powerful breed from a back yard druggie breeder. You haven't trained it. And we are the problem. Poor bloody dog.

You're not the shittiest person alive.

You were misguided, naive, judged a situation poorly and wrong.

But I do think your language here and your proposals are pretty shitty, sorry.

I didn't need to seek advice until he started going for my child he was a handful before that yes but we were doing great so it's come from nowhere hense the post!

What you have described is NOT training him, you've let this dog down badly

www.sbtrescue.org.uk/

Staffie rescue in the north west. They should be able to take him.

I'm emotions are up the wall I can't think straight maybe it's my hormaonal state but I'm just feeling alone through this and scared for my child even though the dog doesn't scare me in the slightest it was the look on my child's face that's for me this way

OP please take him to a rescue. You don't have the ability to care for this dog properly. It's clear from your posts you won't even get it with professional help. Do right by the dog.

When is your baby due? If you won't rehome (which I think would be the best under these circumstances) can you afford doggy day care?

Blistery. My 20 week old pulls on a lead and recently did a wee in her bed. She hasn't got perfect recall and doesn't always listen.
All my fault. It's bloody hard having a puppy. It takes more dedication than I ever knew. (And I have wanted this dog for over 20 years and spent a good couple of years doing research!) I keep reminding myself it won't always be like this and that all the work I put in now will pay off. Oh and I'm aware I'm a complete novice and take all the free and paid expert advice I can get.

I didn't know there was certain training rules and if I was so bad then whys he been a good dog not including the puppy habits but that's to be expected but the going for my child was so out of the blue and he's done it twice ! After so long yeah thanks I know I've let him down you don't need to keep telling me

I'm due this summer

Hi OP, yes, you definitely need to rehome your pup, unfortunately, although you've tried, this isn't working out. He is, I imagine, mouthing, this can leave marks, as Staffs do like to play rough. He isn't in the right home, for him.
Try ringing as many reputable charities, as you can., don't leave it any longer. Someone will love to have him.
Try Rain Rescue, West Yorkshire Dog Rescue, Dogs Trust, not the RSPCA.
Do not advertise him, or give him away to friends, or friends of friends, he could so easily end up in the wrong hands.
Please do the right thing for him, good luck.

I didn't need to seek advice until he started going for my child he was a handful before that yes but we were doing great

You weren't doing great at all. Read your original post again. Look at how you describe him.

someone will love to have him

No, they really won't.

So rehome him now, you've been given enough information and links

And he's not a dangerous dog, he's an untrained pup, in the right hands he could flourish, let him

Going for your child? Really? Or over excited and bored playing? If he is actually attacking and hospitalising your kids then PTS.
He was a handful because he wasn't trained.

Weren't you somewhat put off by getting a pup from a house where they were clearly taking drugs?

Anyway - you seem utterly out of your depth. I know it's not the done thing to say anything negative about Staffies on MN, but if I were in your shoes I would be fearful.

I would be all for persevering, after all it's not the poor dog's fault, but you have a toddler and a baby on the way. You need to re-home the dog (and not get another one).

Tell me how he's not toilet trained all I said I say he does it in his bed !!!!

Are you being deliberately obtuse OP ? Going in his bed CLEARLY means HE IS NOT bloody well toilet trained.

Still ignoring why you didn't pay for classes as you have had him for plenty long enough.

I would say stick to a goldfish as a pet but I don't think you are even fit to own one of those.

You keep saying bored when I've told you how many walks and how long for! He gets more than enough excersice

Is he on or off the lead OP?

He doesn't always do it inthere just sometimes this is what we can't get our heads around other than that he always does his business out in the garden or on walks