Now please do not get me wrong when I ask this, I am not saying I cannot handle my dog, or I want her to be any less of who she is.

BUT the Puppy Stage, the excitement, the overly keen jumping everywhere on everyone lol (which I have just managed to stop lol)

When does this cease ? And your dog become calmer ? I hear its 2 years but does anyone know?

Look forward to your answers

Hi Tamara,

They never calm down hun..

Always full on throughout their life,my old lass was 16,she still got giddy bless her,even at her age.We had a bitch growing up that passed at 22,she was full on still,just not as fast and furouis.Staffys are like men...They never grow up.

Mine is still quite giddy at times, but i would say she calmed down a bit about 20 months to 2 years, but any encouragment and she could be right back into the silly stage.

I was always told they calmed down a bit at 3 years old.  On Cairo's 3rd birthday, I sat him down and had a mum-to-dog chat about how he was meant to calm down a bit now....................

 

He's 3 and a half now and I guess he is a bit calmer, but it doesn't take much to have him running round like a loon.

 

That's part of their charm though (or so I keep telling myself when I have 25kg of Staffie trying to jump on my knee or head!!)

depends on the dog or situation, just for example if the dog has to spend a lot of time alone then its going to seem like a nutter when it sees you as its so excited. i wouldnt like to say exactly what age they will calm down. my brothers sbt which sadly died last year was an absolute head case, there was no reason to it he just was. when he was 15 i had to fetch him from the police station as hed smashed through a double glazed window after a cat and when someone had seen it they rang the police thinking a mad dog was on the loose, he was mad but soft as you like. he often scaled an 8ft fence if a cat walked along the top, all well and good but he was still doing it in his last year 15. this along with my own 3 sbts is why i wouldnt like to say an age they calm down... calmer maybe 2+  actually calm?? maybe never

Yeah i think theres a time when the training sets in more solidly, and they are more likley to do as they're told, but they never calm down. They were bred to be energetic.

our new neighbours have a 3yo staffy bitch and she is basically a large version of our 4 month old Islay (behaviour wise). apparently she calmed down for a couple of weeks after she had a litter then back to her 'big' puppy ways! she's an absolute beauty though 

Hello.  My boy Harley, he is 15 months old and he is a lot calmer now than when he was 6 months old.  I think he is just a calm dog by nature, a bit shy too. He hasn't been done yet and he doesn't try to mount that much either.  However, my girl Muffin, she is 11 months and she is sooooooooooooo excitable!  As you say I wouldn't want her any other way but omg how embarrassing when we meet people in the park and she starts jumping at people.... I just wanna hide when I see the paw marks on their clean coats   She is a bit calmer now than when she was 6 months old but I do need to watch her when she is closed to me and playing as she might just break my nose in one of her moments! lol
I think they calm down eventually but never fully but then that is the reason why I love staffies so much

I didn't think they ever did lol they really are true clowns at times:)

My Kobe is 9 months old now. He was about 2 months old when I got him home. He was a little monster and didnt' stop at all. I do notice the change last two months. Now he is a lot calmer and at least is under control. I am not sure it is because he gets older so he becomes better or it's because we desexed him when he was 6 months old. After a month or two he was desexed, he has responded us VERY well and hasn't done much damage to us and our house.

I just haven't got idea what state of behavior is called " calmed down" by age or by training.

 When my dog reached around 3, I felt she was getting mature but that feeling was not backed by some certain behaviour.  She still jumps up to people if I let her and she's 6 years old. if I don't want  her to jump up I have to let her " sit" and "stay" there. So I don't know if its her maturity or training making her looks " calming down". 

 When I think about it, when they are young they definitely wanted to be close to me more often  than adult dogs, as Sasha and Max still likes to lay down with me but they are more independent , if I haven't got time to sit down with them they can happily go without it . but it still quizzes me if its the sign of maturity or got used to the life style?