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No, you're missing the point. Animals do not have the cognitive processes of (most) human beings. They can be trained, but they are NOT as intelligent. They don't know "right" from "wrong" when it comes to the essentials - ie if you get suddenly angry, please don't bite that babies face...

Indeed. Just look at the House of Commons.

.....who cares who's to blame ? By then its always too late, followed by the predictable but useless "disbelief" from the owners. It doesn't make a blind bit of difference to a dead or ravaged toddler does it. Just REMOVE the risk. I would be deeply unhappy if a dog, pretty much most breeds of...

Perhaps I'm not making myself clear. I don't CARE about staffs looking cute on Crufts. I don't CARE about them being "considered" the best breeds around children and toddlers. And its not just staffs either. I simply don't trust a dumb animal with a brain the size of a golf ball and jaws that...

The idiots are the people who don't recognise that staffies, greyhounds, labs, rotts, bulldogs, whatever - they are ALL unpredictable animals, who have powerful jaws with sharp teeth, and who can turn in an instant with catastrophic life-changing consequences. YOU might trust them to be 100%...

Blimey, well remembered! Sadly though, Bruce flew out the back door one afternoon, never to return. Casper was/is the replacement. Unlike Bruce, who was from a pet shop, I hand-reared this one so he's far more tame. If anyone else wants a bit of hand-rearing, I'm usually available on Thursday...

Well...can't be ALL bad

I was trying to remember that saying for my last reply :lolol: That old cockatiel is still very spritely, which gives me heart. He hears the car on the driveway when I get home, so the first thing I hear every time I put the key in the door is him screeching. Then when I walk into the room, he...

Wide words. Cats are basically @rseholes who despise their owners. Any affection they show is entirely fake - they only do it to get fed. Dogs on the other hand, are thick. Their love and trust is utterly unconditional, you only have to see the reaction when you walk in the house after being...

I've clearly led a sheltered life. My parents were cat people. I've never had a dog, nor would I. At least not until I'm basically infirm and incontinent and can barely leave the house, ie when my life is pretty much over and I have no remaining ambitions of travelling anywhere or doing...

Err.... What ??

I don't really care about a breeds "reputation", whether deserved or not. Its still an animal, it still has powerful jaws, and it only has to turn ONCE to wreak absolute devastation. I'm confident we'll soon have the "it wouldn't hurt a fly" and "soppy thing, totally out of character"...