"Britain's Top Dog 2019" Well it was lovely news last night to hear Staffordshire Bull Terriers was classed as Top Dogs for 2019 - about time the breed was recognized for their true abilities and their caring and loving souls besides their intelligent rate. https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/uk-best-dog-breeds-2019-13923931
Did anyone watch Countdown of the most popular dogs in the UK? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ains-favourite-dog-ITV-Britians-100-dogs.html Some lovely stories, the bloke with the spaniels got to me. Was good to see they also included puppy farms.
Hi Vee, this is the main problem below and farms should be banned and top showing breeders should only own the dogs...who tag the bitches pedigree for 18mths so the new owner can't breed them and still do regular check ups to make sure they're in a proper environment. However many staffie fans fired back, stating that had a bad reputation due to poor owners who forced it to be aggressive, exploiting its high trainability.
Some nice stories but I found the format peculiar. I couldn't suss the reasons that had decided the order that the 100 breeds were in. It wasn't based on registrations, or even an estimate of the population that included unregistered stock, as some minority and low litter sized breeds were significantly higher than they would have been. Also, I didn't see why the top ten had been decided, but the final order of them was left to a public vote.
Carole the final vote went to the public to see if the breed in my opinion was still being looked at as being a dangerous breed, with the bad press they've had stated on them...it's the owners who need taking in to care not the dogs.
Sorry about that dot because with out your knowledge of the breed I wouldn't have known so much about them..thank you on sharing
Thank you Gail and that's ok. I knew staffs are very popular, people haven't got the room for a bigger dog.Around here spaniels are popular.
Dot what i'm pleased about is the breed really being recognized against bad press and this shows other people out there that the breed is a beauty of a dog in all facts