This story reminds me of when my mom's orange Mastiff mix named Squash protected my little sister from two aggressive dogs. Jackie, even if Benni had done more than bark to protect your little girl, so what! There is nothing wrong with a dog protecting its family no matter what breed it is. Almost any dog breed would have done the same thing. Heck, I've seen Chihuahuas try to do it.

this is MY story about MY MUMS DOG and my little girl to those who are saying my dog retaliated in aggresive manner can i ask were it states this in the story??? HE WAS NOT AGGRESIVE toward the other dog he simply moved himself into harms way to stop the dog attacking my little girl, he stood there in the way of to protect her and didnt once make a violent move to the other dog!! yes he barked at the other dog but only about 3 times he was not aggresive and like the story says he moved himself into harms way to protect her, so unless you read teh story correctly dont comment, silly people that dont know facts

There you go, scientific proof. In order to avoid the aggression of a staffy, get a staffy! Then when your staffy gets aggressive, get another staffy. Then when those two get aggressive, get another two to protect you. Then when those four get aggressive...hang on. But what if your original staffy is aggressive to a non aggressive staffy? Would the person with the non aggressive staffy have to buy an aggressive staffy to protect them from your aggressive staffy? Surely I would then have to buy 2 aggressive staffys to protect from your 2 aggressive staffys? It could end up like an old style nuclear arms race but with staffys. Anyone for CSD Campaign for Staffy Disarnament Won't work, because if them North Koreans get hold of some rogue staffys we will wish we had kept our aggressive staffys instead of trading em in for those cuddly labs. To staffy or not to staffy, that is the question.

Jeepers it's like two chavs having a lovers tiff. please, they are dogs

A Staff' was acting aggressively and another Staff' retaliated with sufficient aggression to warn it off.

Two acts of Staff' aggression is hardly a heart warming story of life saving heroism!

Any independant witnesses to this? or just the people in the article?

mmm... seems of bit of a PR exercise to the poacher

Ridiculous story, maybe we should all own Staffys to protect ourselves from errrrm staffys????

Ive not long got hold of a Staffy pup, hes just over 3 months now and is extremely well behaved and no problem at all. No different to any other dog in terms of how he act. Lazes around, always comes to see you when your down, also get along with my budgies. I think the problem is these dogs are readily avalible to people and not that expensive. Alot of rough areas have these dogs and they tend to be owned by troublemakers and horrid human beings. It should be illegal to own a dog without a license, because otherwise all these idiots will breed them an use them as a means to an end, wether it be fighting or just to strike fear into people. Seriously, some people should not be allowed dogs. When I look at my dog, I think how can people do these things to an animal? Uncontrollable animals, should not be allowed animals

It's about time there was some positive feed back about this breed and just proves as i have said before blame the deed not the breed and it may help if these dogs or any other animal weren't advertised on sites like seek and sell and more people were vetted before adopting any animal.

Thankyou Evening Mail for publishing this heart warming story- something POSITIVE said about this breed at last.It proves that not every Staffy is a snarling, dangerous, not to be trusted dog.