I see we have the usual I don't like the look to ban them comments.
We buried my second Staffie the other year, I took him on at 3 1/2 years of age and had him for 13 years until it was time to call it a day, he was losing the use of his back legs and lost most of his muscle mass, his site had been deteriorating for some years but he was happy and mobile. once he lost his mobility and started to become stressed it was time to end it..................................... I still miss him greatly. A more laid back Dog would have been harder to find of ANY breed and it had been shockingly mistreated before he came to me. I got him after being without a dog from about 5 months after losing my previous Staffie and oddly enough although i knew her from a pup I did not take her on until she was 3 1/2 years old after her owner died. She hated other dogs but would ignore and avoid them. reason being she was attacked by two adult dogs when about 12 weeks old ............................................ she never forgot.
If a dog approached her she would warn it off and eventually nip it it it did not leave her alone. The only dogs she got on with were a friend Dobermans whom she had known since being a puppy. She went senile at nearly 17 years of age. She was an excellent house dog and at the time I lived in a small block of flats and she knew everyone who lived there and whom visited regularly by their footsteps. When the ladies bought new shoes their footsteps were different so she would bark to warn of strangers. They spoke to her through the door and she didn not bark at them again yet always warned of strangers. Three of the ladies living int he flats told me this reassured them as they then knew when someone strange to the flats was about.
Being council properties built in the mid 1960's they required rewiring so the workman were introduced to her and she would then allow them in as I was at work, one day the younger electrician " her" so he sheepisly went to the foreman to tell him who laughed at him. he then took her to one of the ground floor flats and there she was with the old lady a Mrs Tester who was making a fuss of my Stafffordshire and giving her a few titbits of biscuit as Mrs Tester was having some tea.
The local fields and stream on a weekend would have a dozen of more Staffies running around on it yet the only fights I witnessed involved Boarder Collies ......................................... perhaps we should ban them as after all they start fights in my own personal experience.
My second Staffie was attacked the first morning I had him ......................... yes by a damned Boarder Collies whos owner just said oh he always does that!!!!! Luckily J-D treated it as a game and just wrestled the Collie onto it side all the while wagging his tale. If he had torn into the Collie who would have been blamed ........................ yep J-D because he was a Staffordshire Bull terrier.
I did not see the programme of course as I rarely watch TV due to the drivel they show upon it.
BTW Phil Drabble used to always have Staffordshires .