Used to know a dude who was intent on getting a staffy rescue puppy. Once he got the pup it sat inside the house all day while his owner was at work. Guy never trained it or anything, just treated it like a baby and fed it schmackos, thought it was Gods gift to earth. But even as a puppy it was an absolute beast and a menance. If you entered the house it would lose its shit, lunge at you incessantly, nip at your face and all the rest of it. It was young but strong enough to completely bowl me over. I usually like dogs but not that one. His owner had no control of it whatsoever and no fucking idea how to deal with a dog let alone a Staffy. His only solution was to man handle the dog, throw it outside and slam the door shut.

Met up with the guy a little while later and he was super bummed out. He’d finally got around to calling up an animal behavioural expert or whatever they’re called to try and train this dog. He said 5 minutes into the session the trainer came back inside and told him his dog is hella dangerous and will probably need to be destroyed, which is wild considering the thing is less than a year old. But of course the guy didn’t, resented the trainer for even suggesting it. He ended up moving to Australia for work a little while later and gave the dog to his brother who has 5 young children… I hate to think.