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rescue staffy - then and now
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17-12-2011 1:34pm#1just wanted to show off my gorgeous girl's progress from shelter to 4 months at home
this was the first time i saw her at the shelter. looking lost and very hungry. she had already had a litter at a very young age and was handed into DSPCA by some kind soul who found her tied to a tree by a steel cable
she was very timid but still friendly and loved to walk around the shelter just smelling everything and worrying cats
this was her first weekend at home. still very underweight and looking bewildered. she wouldnt eat anything but chicken, wouldnt eat a treat even if left alone with it and she had no ideas what toys were or how to play with them.
this is dolly now. 4 months later and up to a very nice 20kg! she eats like a horse and has figured out that a rope with a knot at either end is possibly the most fun in the world!
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DamagedTrax wrote: »out and about worrying squirrels in the park again
Ha! Ours chased a squirrel half way up a tree one time - it was impressive 0 -
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My sister-in-law works up there, I remember her telling us about this gorgeous staffie who came in. So glad to see her doing well, catching all your facebook updates on her.
who's your sis in law?
sure arent all the satffies that come into dspca are gorgeous! i had my eye on 2 before i met dolly 0 -
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I'd prefer not to say publicallyDamagedTrax wrote: »who's your sis in law?
In the UK they passed the Dangerous Dogs Act in response to media hysteria about the threat posed by dogs towards children. What was happening was that scumbags were using particular breeds for fighting and attacking people, pit bulls most notably, treating them poorly and generally acting like scumbags do. When the scumbags friends and family would come over, the dogs would on occasion lose the plot and attack someone, because that's what they're been trained to do.Can any of the Staff fans explain why they get such a bad press?
The Dangerous Dogs Act basically made it illegal to own certain breeds. If they were found, they were destroyed.
So in order to get around this Act, scumbags simply switched to breeds not included in the act, notably staffies. So this then, coupled with a dramatic rise in dog attacks in the UK (yes, after the Act was brought in to reduce them), caused Staffies to get a bad reputation.
The Act itself actually caused a dramatic rise in ownership of all the banned breeds and a rise in dogfighting in the UK - the bad reputation, coupled with the fact that they were now illegal, meant that more scumbags were attracted to the dogs and dogfighting as something which they should be doing.
The Restricted Breeds list has had a similar, though less dramatic effect here. The fact that the breeds aren't banned means that scumbags don't have to go out of their way to break law, but our general consumption of UK media means that the reputation has carried across, and many Irish people are idiots about the whole thing.0 -
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