TheMan
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Ok, it won't surprise anyone for me to say, I have a fair bit to do with dogs. Very much a labour of love, I was intimately involved in trying to save the life of one of the most high profile dogs ever to become a victim of BSL (Breed specific legislation, or Bull S**t Law as we call it).
Top personalities all over the world, and the most well known trainers were also involved. I have to add, it was not my intention to get involved with something so controversial or high profile as this became. I forged friendships with shelters across the world, one specifically in The Bronx taking fighting gang pits and retraining and re-homing them. I still support them when I can.
It makes you aware there is a side to our beloved K9 friends that other people just don't realise, and I was shocked and upset by this. However, rather than getting further involved down that path, I followed my usual mantra that you decide to do one thing - then do that. You cannot help everyone and everything, so find one you are passionate about and be useful to that cause.
I have settled on music and dogs, bull breeds in particular.
Known affectionately as "The Nanny Dogs" Staffordshire Bull Terriers in particular are gaining notoriety in the press again, I have been in a right to do with a Sun journalist about stories they were printing, making the problem worse by constantly printing pictures of salivating bull breeds appearing vicious! Nothing can be further from the truth. They were bred to be purposefully gentle around humans, so even after they had been in a dog fight, judges could handle them without fear.
Staffies were bred to be dosile around people regardless of any intensity of working/fighting. It is a total myth that they are a naturally aggressive breed! You can have issues with other dogs if you do not train and socialise your dog properly, in fact that is true of all dogs anyway.
A breed will give you characteristics you need to be aware of, however, a dog is still a dog - and their language universal.
So don't judge a dog by it's cover, there are many thousands of staffies/bull breeds put down every year - the numbers are staggering. I'd rescue hundreds if I could.
My favourite park located in the same County that my favourite breed of dog is named after
This is real Staffordshire Bull Terrier:
Staffies.....A tribute to the Nanny dogs vol 2 x
baby playing with Staffordshire Bull Terrier
Bull Breed: Sgt Stubby The War Hero
So yeah, this TheMans soft side
Top personalities all over the world, and the most well known trainers were also involved. I have to add, it was not my intention to get involved with something so controversial or high profile as this became. I forged friendships with shelters across the world, one specifically in The Bronx taking fighting gang pits and retraining and re-homing them. I still support them when I can.
It makes you aware there is a side to our beloved K9 friends that other people just don't realise, and I was shocked and upset by this. However, rather than getting further involved down that path, I followed my usual mantra that you decide to do one thing - then do that. You cannot help everyone and everything, so find one you are passionate about and be useful to that cause.
I have settled on music and dogs, bull breeds in particular.
Known affectionately as "The Nanny Dogs" Staffordshire Bull Terriers in particular are gaining notoriety in the press again, I have been in a right to do with a Sun journalist about stories they were printing, making the problem worse by constantly printing pictures of salivating bull breeds appearing vicious! Nothing can be further from the truth. They were bred to be purposefully gentle around humans, so even after they had been in a dog fight, judges could handle them without fear.
Staffies were bred to be dosile around people regardless of any intensity of working/fighting. It is a total myth that they are a naturally aggressive breed! You can have issues with other dogs if you do not train and socialise your dog properly, in fact that is true of all dogs anyway.
A breed will give you characteristics you need to be aware of, however, a dog is still a dog - and their language universal.
So don't judge a dog by it's cover, there are many thousands of staffies/bull breeds put down every year - the numbers are staggering. I'd rescue hundreds if I could.
My favourite park located in the same County that my favourite breed of dog is named after
This is real Staffordshire Bull Terrier:
Staffies.....A tribute to the Nanny dogs vol 2 x
baby playing with Staffordshire Bull Terrier
Bull Breed: Sgt Stubby The War Hero
So yeah, this TheMans soft side