Muzzle for a Staffie

[Papergirl1968]

My dog has attacked another dog today. She twisted out of her harness, she's never allowed off lead. She attacked several dogs in the past but not for several years.
Can anyone recommend a muzzle? Something like this? We've tried a mesh one before but she can get out of it.

You want a baskerville.
They are well made, comfortable for the dog if the correct size and allow them to pant and drink.
As an aside, if your dog feels they have to defend themselves, is there nowhere you can walk where they won’t meet other dogs?
My dog is reactive - I’m working on it - and quiet walks in areas with no dogs has helped him feel so much safer.
Even shopping centre carparks before the shops have opened, so they are quiet, are good places for dogs to sniff.

I can't drive at the moment and also get very tired, @Hmmmbetterchangethis because I'm recovering from neurosurgery, so unfortunately we're limited to walks around the locality. I occasionally take her to the fields nearby or the canal but nowhere isolated enough for there to be no dogs around.

In that case I’d only walk her once a week or so. It’s stressing her out too much going out if you can’t avoid dogs.
The rest of the time, do trick training, free work, shaping exercises with her. You can google all these for what to do.
Hide her favourite toy and get her to find it, then make it harder over time. Use puzzle feeder toys to work her brain and tire her out.
Stressed dogs don’t need walks that stress them further.

You think she's stressed then?
I don't understand why she likes some dogs, is indifferent to some, and hates some. Just to explain my daughter had her off travellers who said they were going to shoot her so we think she had a pretty crap life and was chained up a lot.
We've had her for about four years now and she loves her walks.
No aggression from her towards people at all, and she adores me.

Dogs only attack when they feel so threatened they have no other choice.

If she’s feeling like this, then yes, she’s stressed.

Dogs will do anything to please their owners. You want to walk her, therefore she allows herself to be walked.

However, she gets so overwhelmed with anxiety at the dogs around her (and maybe other triggers in the environment - noise, vehicles, roadworks, small children perhaps), she’s compelled to defend herself.
That’s not fun or enjoyable for her.

Google trigger stacking to understand why she goes for some dogs and not others.

Ok, thank you very much. Just off to work but will do some research later. You've been so helpful, thanks again.

I'd also look at a new harness if she can slip out of this one. Ruff wear and 3 Peaks both do harnesses with an added belly strap, or you can get a connector to link her harness to her collar, so at least if she slips her harness it's still connected to her and she can't run.