never fear...most dogs will get on well if trained and socialised properly. It is a know fact that staffies don't get on too well with other dogs. Well that myth has been busted by my two who love other dogs company from poodles to Great Danes.

Just be sure to take you pup to Puppy Preschool and well socialise it with your existing dog and if unsure never leave them alone together unsupervised.

ive never had an american staffy, but i did have an 11 week old american bulldog that got attacked and killed by two american staffys, they grabbed her around the neck and the more she cryed the harder the shook her. they threw her around the back yard until they ripped her off her chain and snapped her neck and broke 3 legs

hi i own a sfaffy he is 8 yrs old now and i also own a pomeranian dog he is 3 yrs old and they are the best of friends, they eat out of the same bowls and sleep in the same kennel( they do have their own beds but they also sleep together) so it really depends on how they are treated when they are growing up!!!!! hope this helps you Staffies are the best breed to have with little dogs and children.....

Hi,
I just brought bak an abused staffy from sydney to the gold coast. Unfortunately it has been only around a German shepard which used it as a chew toy. I am on the coast and we were cuddling him for the 10hour drive we got out at home and he ran up to our poodle and Grabbed it by the neck and the usual stuff. Our poodle was ok, and we are gonna try to train him and introduce him to our otrher dogs slowly with a muzzle. just wanted to know if anyone has other sergestions. remember he is scared but totally harmless to humans!!! Also i just wanted to say if you ever come across a staffy of a dog with lock jaws if you jab it in the neck (not hard but fast) it will release the other dog. wake_surfer@hotmail.com if you have any other ways etc.Thanks

Your little dog will most probably have it over the staff It happend with my pb

but why on earth would you have had an 11 week old pup chained up? and then even more alarmingly you left it tied up where two amstaffs could get to it?
Im sorry but in my books that makes who ever tied the poor puppy up responsible for its terrible death, such a lack of brains should be criminal!
Ps what happened to the amstaffs?
and from your account it sounds as though you were there watching it happen?"the more she cried the harder they shook her"!

staffies are the same as all bully breeds they were bred to hunt and so most have a strong sense of chase i dont know of many who turn on their mates though but it does happen... Males are worse than female so buy a female...My male amstaff would kill another dog if he got hold of it but he wouldnt dream of harming my other female amstaff or my tiny mini foxy.....
Maybe its not worth the risk,buy another fluffy dog instead,the problem is normally that a staffie likes to play and rough house and little fluffy dogs normally get their noses out of joint when a new dog comes home and they dont want to play or even if they do play they dont play as rough as the staff and the smaller dog will turn and have a go at the staff and then the staff has a go back ..realises its much stronger than the little dog whos been boss up until now and then the staff steps up a knotch on the ladder and the fluffy doesnt like that and so fights may break out..

i didnt watch it, the people next door to us did,
where we lived it wasnt fenced very well, and i wouold rather tie her up than have her inside on a nice day or get hit by a car because she got out, we only went out for an hour or so, but i love the fact how you all jump to conclusions not knowing the story, she want on a shor chain, she was able to go overywhere we have a 1/4 acre back yard, and she was only ever died up if we went out which wasnt offen, the rest of the time she was in the house with us. the two staffys that attacked her were used for pip hunting, they were always tied up and on this day the owner untied them turned around and they were gone, when we got home she admitted it was her dog as the guy in between us and them saw it, they sent there dogs away to ther parents property then a month later denied that it was even there dogs that did it.

when are we gonna gets some new pics of the Whiskey princess?

Bon is pretty territorial lately...even clyde gets a talking to by her. She has to eat her dinner first then he can have his...but he just takes it all in. Must be the hormones!