In the world of dog rescue we are witnessing a Staffie epidemic which is sadly resulting in a Staffie holocaust.

Bull breeds are powerful dogs and need aware and responsible owners who can optimise their many, many positive breed attributes and kindly train and manage their considerable power-potential, towards their natural inclination to love and obey. Just take a look at any free-ad newspaper or website...count how many litters of Staffie & Staffie x's that are up for sale. In the pet shops - little licky, overtly cuddly love pups...they start their journey and with the rustle of paper-money and not a glance back as pup money breeders walk away.  Buy that pup, see it come through into adolescence, try to contain a Staffie who isn't receiving the exercise it needs, hasn't received the training, denied the company it lives for. Reports of Staffies left all day in kitchens, often crated for 5-8 hours, is common place.  Hear the family rows, see relationship splits, the landlord insistence NO DOGS, evictions, the sense of wanting to be free of this mighty bond - aka small, carriable wonderment.  Witness the attempts to pass on, payment begins to swing the other way to take it off our hands. The Staffie begins to move through homes or the music fades...'time to RID of the Staffie'. Anyone there for an adolescent Staffie?  Wonderful adult Staffie all singing all dancing? The phone line goes dead. Our Staffie has become worthless; societies liability.  Rescues struggle to get the public to appreciate with today's veterinary costs alone they are running at a loss.  Add in kennel costs and fund raising is essential. Then ask them to consider an adult Staffie, whose prospects of homing are slim in the short term, who can blame them in limiting their intake or turning their backs. We found a dead Staffie in a park in good condition just dead, we took in a pregnant Staffie 10 days off giving birth..she was full of worms, a starving Staffie found abandoned in the cellar, her pups were sold from the pound and she was about to be put to sleep. 

Let's face facts, so many Staffies are being dumped or handed over on our streets to concerned passerby; thrown out of moving cars and worse.  Destination unknown, leave it to its fate. Arriving at the council pounds and the frown goes on the staffs faces..yet another Staffie...what hope...the following poem says it all. Our council pounds become death camps for Staffies...is there a political solution?  It must first start with subsidised bull breed neutering and denying the oxygen of free ad publicity to the Staffie breeders or pet shop space. Discourage breeding as Staffies are paying the price by being killed in large numbers softly in our pounds.