Although it is terrible what happened to Sharon Boaler and her dog when it was attacked by a Staffordshire Bull Terrier (Oxford Mail, November 13), the publicity the breed gets about being vicious is unfair.

I have a two-year-old Staffordshire Bull Terrier and a 14-year-old border collie who is deaf and going blind.

She is his eyes and ears and stays by his side wherever he goes and is brilliant with children and other dogs.

A dog is what you make it - any dog can be vicious if that is what you train it to do.

CARLEE LOVEDAY James Wolfe Road Cowley Oxford