{"id":141384,"date":"2023-09-19T13:29:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T13:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity-hub.com\/?p=141384"},"modified":"2023-09-19T13:29:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T13:29:54","slug":"what-is-an-xl-bully-dog-experts-to-try-to-define-the-breed-before-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity-hub.com\/world-news\/what-is-an-xl-bully-dog-experts-to-try-to-define-the-breed-before-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"What is an XL bully dog? Experts to try to define the breed before ban"},"content":{"rendered":"
Experts are due to meet this week to try to define the XL Bully breed ahead of plans to ban it by the end of the year.<\/p>\n
Police officers and vets will hold talks about the dogs’ characteristics after a spate of violent attacks on people, including the fatal mauling of a father of two.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rishi Sunak last moved to outlaw the breed within months after the death of Ian Price, 52.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But questions have been raised over how to determine which animals are XL bullies and affected by the ban, and which are not.<\/p>\n
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Police officers and vets will hold talks about the dogs’ characteristics after a spate of violent attacks on people, including the fatal mauling of a father of two.<\/p>\n
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MAULED TO DEATH: Ian Price, 52, who was killed by these suspected XL bullies (pictured below) in Staffordshire on Thursday<\/p>\n
Measures will be put in place to ‘safely manage’ the existing population once a ban comes into force, Downing Street said this morning.<\/p>\n
The ban will include an amnesty for existing owners as long as their pets are registered, neutered and muzzled when in public.<\/p>\n
Government officials stressed last night that by requiring all owners to get their bully dogs neutered, the breed would simply die out. There are currently no plans for a cull.<\/p>\n
American bullies are a relatively new breed, having originated in the 1980s.\u00a0They are mixed breed bulldogs, typically American pitbull terriers crossed with American, English and Olde English bulldogs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Though the bully XL is the most common, the dogs can also be bred with mastiffs and other larger dogs to make them bigger, XXL or even XXXL.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Despite their relative popularity in the UK, they are not officially registered as a breed by the UK Kennel Club, making it difficult to know exactly how many are in the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Friday, the Prime Minister branded the dogs a ‘danger to our communities’ and vowed to bring in rules by the end of the year under the Dangerous Dogs Act to ban them.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It came after a horrific incident 24 hours earlier when Mr Price was mauled to death in a frenzied attack by two suspected bullies.<\/p>\n
Days before, Ana Paun, 11, was hurt by an American bully \u2013 a type linked to 10 deaths since 2021.<\/p>\n
The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said a ‘transition period’ would be introduced, with details likely to follow a consultation on the plan.<\/p>\n
Rishi Sunak has promised to ban the breed by the end of the year but owners of American XL bully dogs are not expected to face a cull of their pets.<\/p>\n
Owners could face a requirement to neuter their dogs and muzzle them in public, the Government’s chief vet has suggested.<\/p>\n
The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said: ‘We will need to safely manage the existing population of these dogs. Exactly what that looks like will be a topic for the consultation.<\/p>\n
‘And there will need to be some sort of transition period.’<\/p>\n