my staffy needs a mussle!!!!

hi every1 i was walkin tyson today with my two children(as there on school holidays!)and we went for a hour walk,on a different route,and came across some shops,we decided to stop and get a drink for us and let tyson chill for 2mins,i asked my eldest daughter to hold tysons lead while i went in the shop he layed down on the floor while i walked in the shop but when i came out there was a lady walkin past shoutin at my children and dog,tellin um to get that scum dog in a muzzle and sayin how nasty staffys are!!! i just took my girls and tyson and walked off,when we got home my girls was so so upset but all in all i cant belive the rudeness and cheek of that lady!!! tyson is the softest dog i know!!! some poeple!!!

We have to (sadly) take all this and walk on by. Don't let them get you down it's just ignorance.

Uneducated people

i know its so annoying how people can speakout of turn like that,just by the certian look of a dog!! and as they say ignorance is bliss!!

Met some women today with her white fluffy thing on lead, Moo just plodded past and the women said "Is your dog alright" I just said under my breathe, no it might eat yours with which she replied "I know that sort of breed".

So yours is on lead, mines off, do you really think she would be off lead if she was a danger?!!? Stupid women!

I was out walking my dogs yesterday with my children and I got the looks,not verbal and that was bad enough. Just because we stopped outside the bakers to get lunch and i has to tie the dogs up outside. It gets you so angry

I now have an image of Moo with fluff coming out of the corners of her mouth

she wouldnt have been brave enought o say it if you were there she was only brave enough to shout at the kids

what a rude, silly, ignorant woman. she should learn to keep her unwarrented stupid comments to herself be it about a dog or not. spitefull old hag.

Stupid woman. Honestly, did it look like your boy was about to eat your children?

kathytake2 wrote: I now have an image of Moo with fluff coming out of the corners of her mouth

What a lovely image!

I had the opposite yesterday, sort of. I was walking Dempsey back from the park & we came towards a little fluff ball & her owner talking to a neighbour. Now, I know the fluff ball & the owner quite well & Dempsey likes the dog (mainly because she's old, non-threatening & takes medication that make her smell like she's in season!). As I got closer, the neighbour said to the fluff ball owner, "You want to pick your dog up, there's one of those nasty breeds! He'll attack her for sure!" The fluff ball owner said "Don't talk rot! That's the sweetest dog in the neighbourhood!"

Nice to hear positive comments

@Kathy!!

Should have told her she needs the muzzle

ooh people like that make my blood boil

I know Monty is a different breed, but I've seen comments on the Internet about EBTs can be nasty etc etc. Fortunately, anyone who has taken the time to spot me and Monty on our walks, with or without a dog, they always seem to take the time to comment on how lovely Monty is. I've had a woman stop me as she got out of her car to go into her home, asking me to stop, so she can bring her son out to see Monty, I have a neighbor who's just moved in across the road stop me when we were walking, for a chat about Monty as the family want an EBT, another neighbor I've never seen before who came out on his door to say 'lush dog !' .... the dog gets more attention than me ! But the day someone says something derogatory about my dog while he is out with me, I will have to open the can of emergency whoop-a5s I carry around with me in my pocket !

It's so annoying! At the park on tuesday, a dog zooms up to Violet (who was on lead, having a lie down because she's so lazy) and growls in her face. The man eventually catches up to his dog, and Violet get's excited as she always does when she sees someone, so I say "Violet, nice and calm", and he goes "OH, Violent Violet. You can tell that she needs that muzzle though". I said "It's not a muzzle, it's a head collar that stops her from pulling on her lead" and he replies with "Well I've never heard of that and it looks like a muzzle to me."

I was tempted to say she was more than capable of biting him with it on, but I just laughed and said "Oh well, shows what you know!". Sometimes it would be so easy to get in a full on fight with people. Although, it's not just staffs who are getting it - was talking to a woman who has a labrador, and she was saying it wasn't until she got a the pup that she realised just how nasty people can be about dogs!

For goodness sake. I'm 12 years old for gods sake and and one of my biggest goals is to stop people believing any old rubbish about staffies. Casey has never hurt a fly and I used to walk her all the time. There used to be a boy, a bit older than me in my aunties estate and his nana had a dog(a jack russell cross) and he was fine with dogs. Then when he saw Casey he went to the other side of the path. I tried to reassure him that she was lovely but he just always did it and his mam said, he doesnt like that breed betcause theyre vicious!!!!! I'd trust Casey more than I trust most humans, and whenver I see her she makes me happy!

I feel so passionate about this subject, sorry rant over!!!!!

Oh stupid people!! I told my mum I now own Murphy today she never replied after i sent the photo of him. don't think she realised how much staffie he is and now as predicted is not talking to me she probably thinks he will eat oliver and i am a terrible mum for getting him

How awful to say that to a child!

standupforstaffies123 wrote:I'd trust Casey more than I trust most humans, and whenver I see her she makes me happy!
I feel so passionate about this subject, sorry rant over!!!!!

You have a fantastic attitude wish more youngsters (soz to call you that lol) where like you, great stuff Xx

ignoant arses, people like that need educating. good for you for walking away i wouldnt have been so calm if someone said that too me or if i had kids too them. the human race is a discrace.

samprettypawsboutique wrote:Oh stupid people!! I told my mum I now own Murphy today she never replied after i sent the photo of him. don't think she realised how much staffie he is and now as predicted is not talking to me she probably thinks he will eat oliver and i am a terrible mum for getting him

When i got stan my mum was dead against a staffy believed what she read etc but when i brought him home she fell in love her mind is completely converted now. she adores staffys now and if anyone says a bad word about them she would be there before me too defend them.

I really hope thats what happens with my mum Shelly

Thanks Janey, its fine! Hehe! Me too, at my school alone, theres quite afew people with a bad attitude towards dogs of any kind. One case alone being two lads wondering what would happen if you swung a dog round by its tail and now threatening to kill Millie. Ignorant little $£%%^%"

Fingers crossed for you.

My mum adores stan n hooch and says there her grandkids aswel as my bros staffy. Complete convert shes stuck up for him on a few occasions x

standupforstaffies123 wrote:Thanks Janey, its fine! Hehe! Me too, at my school alone, theres quite afew people with a bad attitude towards dogs of any kind. One case alone being two lads wondering what would happen if you swung a dog round by its tail and now threatening to kill Millie. Ignorant little $£%%^%"

Just gotta do your best to educate the dim Xx

Very true Janey! xx

People make me fume sometimes.

Especailly at the minute as Tilli is training to become an assistance dog for me.
We were in Asda shopping yesterday as part of her training, she didnt sniff anythin not even the boxed mince meat. We had gone round the whole store and had some really nice comments inc 'Ive never seen a staffy as a working dog, nice change'.

We finished the shopping and were stood at the tills Tilli sat down in her bright orange jacket and was being calm and quite when a member of staff came over and said 'whats ur dog in training for??' i told her she was training to be a mental health assistance dog. The women said to me 'You cant bring her in when she is training she has to be qualified'

I explained she has to do it as it is part of her public acess work and is part of her exam. She stormed off in a huff.

I said loudly to my friend ' If she was cute lab puppy in guidedog training would she of said the same???' the lther member of staff who was stood behind me also stormed off too.

All they saw was an SBT not the fact that she is training to be an assistance dog!!!!

xXxshelly_stanliexXx wrote:

samprettypawsboutique wrote:Oh stupid people!! I told my mum I now own Murphy today she never replied after i sent the photo of him. don't think she realised how much staffie he is and now as predicted is not talking to me she probably thinks he will eat oliver and i am a terrible mum for getting him

When i got stan my mum was dead against a staffy believed what she read etc but when i brought him home she fell in love her mind is completely converted now. she adores staffys now and if anyone says a bad word about them she would be there before me too defend them.

My mum was exactly the same when I got Ledger but I guess when all you know of a breed is how the media portray this 'vicious mini pitbull spawn of satan type' I guess its hard to have any other opinion than that which you believe you know. Still mum was won over on the first meeting and even more so as he has been noticeably nursing her while she has been laid up with a bad back since November

Sorry to hear all the bad experiences. Luckily for us everyone loves Suki here. We have people stop all the time and ask about her

That's absoluty terrible claire, i would not be going back to that shop then, (or maybe i would just to wind them up > )

Claire thats terrible. Staffies are becoming more popular as assistance dogs and so they should! An innocent Staffie who just wants to please their owner is judged. Thats terrible.

jshrew-Staffies can win your heart with a single look! Its precious!

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Yeah it's sad. Had a few looks and one comment and I have only had Troy a week. It is surprising though how many good comments I get from people, but these are usually people who have had the breed before.

Goes against the stereo type of only chav's owning them (round here anyway) because most of the people that comment and are familiar with the breed are middle-aged women.

Runningwiththepack wrote:People make me fume sometimes.

Especailly at the minute as Tilli is training to become an assistance dog for me.
We were in Asda shopping yesterday as part of her training, she didnt sniff anythin not even the boxed mince meat. We had gone round the whole store and had some really nice comments inc 'Ive never seen a staffy as a working dog, nice change'.

We finished the shopping and were stood at the tills Tilli sat down in her bright orange jacket and was being calm and quite when a member of staff came over and said 'whats ur dog in training for??' i told her she was training to be a mental health assistance dog. The women said to me 'You cant bring her in when she is training she has to be qualified'

I explained she has to do it as it is part of her public acess work and is part of her exam. She stormed off in a huff.

I said loudly to my friend ' If she was cute lab puppy in guidedog training would she of said the same???' the lther member of staff who was stood behind me also stormed off too.

All they saw was an SBT not the fact that she is training to be an assistance dog!!!!

the crying shame is these people have no idea how human loving SBT's are. human ignorance really grates me up the wrong way sometimes. SBT's are perfect for assistance dogs, loving, loyal and brave... if only this stupid stigma could be shaken off. sadley its mostly down to the media and the shamlessley inaccurate stories they peddel. I posted on the sun site a while back about the inaccuracy of one of there stories about SBT's...lasted about 5 mins before it was pulled and not one swear word in it... go figure

a friend of mine got a staffy, They got or rather had a caravan, they spent many weeks there with their dog. Until this new woman arrived. The hassle she had was unbelivible. She sold up in the end

As the saying goes, you cant educate stone. Thats what these people are

So sad that you have to put up with this kind of breed discrimination. It must make walks and being in public a tense situation. Thnak goodness we experience almost zero here.

aye they are indeed small child and dog eating devil dogs, take mines for instance, standing outside the shops while the mrs is inside and someone comes out and says iv built that dog up like a brick sh.. house
then yesterday he sees two collies (that are never on the lead) and gets away from me to see them, the older one has a bite for him and draws blood from his ear (a scratch realy) my big bad dog just stands there (thankfully) like a dafty wondering what he done wrong

That's awful stupid woman! I get that all the time whenever I take mine out I had a woman the other week who had a bijon frise her and her husband were walking it fine untill she spotted my dogs chased after hers n picked it up she walked past me n gave me the most horrible look whilst her husband was walking a few steps behind her looked at me rolled his eyes n gave my dogs lots of attention made me laugh.

I had another man last week his jack Russell ran away from him n headed towards my dogs they were all playing quite happily n he's charging it down the field going "sorry I don't trust staffs" which really peeded me off people are so dumb really are! X

Should of put that loud mouth in a muzzle

Some people make me so made, your poor children:( stupid uneducated fools! hope they are ok now thou

I took River to the vests yesterday for her second vac..there was a husky, and a dalmatian in the vets at the same time as River.. River was best behaved out of all of them.. and ppl where going awwww...cos i said river, sit..good.. and she then proceeded to roll on her back for a belly rub.. hahah...proud momma i think so:D:D:D:D

I have owned Rottys and now a Staffy and have had the same comments about both breeds, however both breeds have almost the same temperament. I just say it not the dog you have to worry about and give them a glare. Seems to shut them up.

TBH I don't give a toss what people think, as in most cases I see its normally their kids or dogs that are unruly. I bring my dogs up to be considerate, affectionate and obedient.

I might get a t-shirt printed for when I walk my dog "I have a staffordshire bull terrier, he is going to get you, because he is a killer dog".

Then on the back " Jog on I lied just like the media, and just like you narrow minded fool".

brophski wrote:I might get a t-shirt printed for when I walk my dog "I have a staffordshire bull terrier, he is going to get you, because he is a killer dog".

Then on the back " Jog on I lied just like the media, and just like you narrow minded fool".

Ignorant bint....and I'm not usually rude

I have given up trying to convince people when out on walks, not because I can't be bothered but because you can't.

The media perpetuate the myth that staffies are aggressive, either good owners decide to get a different breed , or lovely people like you rise above it but even then media ignore all the lovely staffies out there. Instead, they focus on the one idiot who got a staffy for the wrong reason, trained him/her to be aggressive and one incident occurs - the media jump on it.

i often get people crossing the road or pinning themselves to the wall as i pass with Alfie but to be honest i just smile and walk on. The flip side of this though was the other day when a lady with a disabled young man in a wheelchair stopped me and asked if he could stroke the dog. She didn't even bat an eyelid at the fact he was a staffie she just said "oh he loves dogs" Alfie even jumped up so his front paws where on the side of the chair so that he could reach him , it was a lovely.

Only had 2 -ve comment about Heston so far (we live right on the edge of Exmoor and everyone else has gun/farm dogs, so thats pretty good going). Funnily enough all the old ladies in the village seem to love him! Just had a comment regarding his harness "oh he's wearing a harness, that must mean he must be vicious" said as Heston is peeping out from under our table at the local pub sleepily; and also "are you getting him used to wearing a muzzle out?" said by a daft tweed wearing bat. It makes you want to give them a good smack, but James is really good and gets all Staffi educational on them!!!