I am looking for a male puppy staffie,I'm trying to find either a grey, or red brindle having recently lost my black and white, also does anyone know their expected life span? with hopeful thanks.
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I think it is between 9 and 15 years . Our last Staffy was actually 14 years old when he was PTS ( purely because he had walking problems, fits etc ) . He never looked like an old dog either.
I have never heard of a red brindle ( do you mean just brindle or maybe mahogany brindle ) and by grey do you mean "blue" ??
Have a look on this site for breeders and maybe try ringing SBT clubs who may be able to put you in contact with puppys or breeders .
Good luck
Lel

Hi Guest,
As lel says it can be anywhere between 9-16 years, but the average is 12 years.

Red brindles will be very hard to find in staffords, adn are much more a pit colour... it is also hard to find good reds out there at the moment. The same goes for blues as people breeding these tend to breed for colour and forget completely about type and temprament - they will also try to charge you more for these so called "rare" colours. If you desperately want a blue it would be best to have one not out of an all blue litter, or with both blue parents as it is likely that type has been forgotten in the first instance, and that the colour will be washed out in the second.

Good luck trying to find one - try calling the breed secretaries [numbers here ] as they will be able to tell you who is expecting a litter in their areas. Expect to pay about 400-500 pounds for a well reared, good quality pup... dont be tempted by the cheaper options in the paper that wont have had any of their breed health checks done, and will not have beeen bred with the years of knowledge and experience to temprament and type that breeders have.

Hope this helps, and good luck,
Alex