For Sale Boxer puppy. £1700

[oldiebut goodie]

Methinks he is just stirring going by the tone of his posts here.

 

[Duncan Mowlem]

yeah, not to worry.....

 

[Lubrown]

Methinks he is just stirring going by the tone of his posts here.

I don’t see it as being aimed at the OP personally but to be honest lots of people would be happier if both buyers and sellers of dogs needed some sort of licence.

We regularly see attacks by poorly trained or treated dogs. We see the knee jerk breed specific bans that a) don’t work, and b) cause untold suffering to animals - many XL bullies have been drown/burnt/beaten/stabbed to death or just ‘set free’ while the owners now look to dodgy breeders (not implying many breeders are dodgy but they are around) to supply Cane Corso dogs.

Buying from say Dogs Trust you get a small training exercise before you are allowed to take the do home. It covers your legal responsibilities, how to care for your dog and how to spot behavioural issues and highlights you can go back to them for help with these. The dog has had its behaviour assessed. It’s been cared for with vet treatment and has been neutered to prevent the problem of too many dogs. You don’t get that service from most members of the general public selling dogs.

I’m certainly not going to assume you’re dodgy for selling this litter but equally I do think the entire process is a bit lax at present.

 

[Howzat]

Uh ohh, kids have named him. He's going nowhere.

 

[JAC13]

We did find dogs trust got a bit too risk averse but Birmingham Dogs Home are spot on.

It’s not that they don’t want to rehome dogs, of course that’s their goal, but DT clearly got too scared. Maybe they were sued? To be fair we saw one good boy who came back to them twice because new owners couldn’t handle him, he was mouthy but not a risk in my mind (we’ve had an ex bait dog among others so have some experience) and he would be easily trained. He reminded me of our first dog from them but despite our children being ten years older since that one it was still a flat no. I feel letting inexperienced owners take any dog was the trigger for the tightening of their rules, shame as it spoilt it for experienced owners (and therefore the dogs) too. Some people would let a poodle get out of control. Dog owners need training too.

I happily recommend Birmingham Dogs Home. Full of staffies, mastiffs and anything that looks like a bully breed now - so sad. These dogs are wildly misunderstood.

We own a staff as has my family for many many years, nowt wrong,
just like children a product of their environment.

 

[Lubrown]

We own a staff as has my family for many many years, nowt wrong,
just like children a product of their environment.

I’m biased as we have a staffie and had a staffie cross previously- best dogs you can get. What drives me nuts is the negative press and the morons that blindly fall for it. This happens because a few owners/breeders spoil it for the many and this is why I’d be more than happy if every dog owner and breeder had to have a licence… to weed out the dodgy owners and breeders and prove openly that breed is not a problem, it’s people that are.
The fact Dogs Trust, the Kennel Clubs in the UK and US, the RSPCA and any vet all say breed makes no difference and breed specific bans cause harm ought to tell folk something. Yet still parents grab their child’s hand and give us a glare on walks, some folk cross over and one old boy, whose King Charles Spaniel went for our Staffy (who just hid behind me and didn’t even bark) said “yes, that is a mean looking dog isn’t it”. And when people see other dogs barking at ours they look at us in disgust as if we’re the problem - just based on them thinking staffie type dogs are all evil.

 

[JOG]

It is rarely the dog but frequently the owner! I say “rarely” as occasionally a right b’tard of a dog gets thrown up….and no-one is prepared to spend money on a forensic autopsy and analysis to find out what was wrong.

The same happens with horses!