XL Bully

[ade73]

bmwmike said:

Almost like there is a problem with the breed after all.

Dog or council scum?

[bmwmike]

ade73 said:

bmwmike said:

Almost like there is a problem with the breed after all.

Dog or council scum?

Dog.

Scumbags will be scumbags. Can't put scumbags to sleep though.

[okgo]

Another one - hard to tell given location of the attacks being a mix of nice and not, but seen some chat that it originated in….. a council estate!

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/xl-bully-shot-and-k...

[Viper201]

8 XL Bullys seized during the week long national county lines drugs operation. Presumably they will be put to sleep.

https://news.sky.com/story/xl-bully-dogs-seized-wi...

[alabbasi]

Viper201 said:

8 XL Bullys seized during the week long national county lines drugs operation. Presumably they will be put to sleep.

https://news.sky.com/story/xl-bully-dogs-seized-wi...

That's a shame, killing the dog for the wrong owner is cruel

[okgo]

Meh

[Zetec-S]

alabbasi said:

Viper201 said:

8 XL Bullys seized during the week long national county lines drugs operation. Presumably they will be put to sleep.

https://news.sky.com/story/xl-bully-dogs-seized-wi...

That's a shame, killing the dog for the wrong owner is cruel

The reality is you can't rehome them, so there isn't really any other option.

[eldar]

Zetec-S said:

The reality is you can't rehome them, so there isn't really any other option.

They almost certainly haven't been 'trained' in a domestic environment, so rehoming would indeed be high risk.

[Viper201]

Looking back at some of the previous attacks, there are a few that have happened in the new owner's home when they have tried to rescue them.

Its a shame but I can't see a solution.

[Slow.Patrol]

And another

https://metro.co.uk/2024/03/22/baby-3-left-serious...

Child should be taken into care.

[Viper201]

According to government figures more than 55,000 XL Bullys are registered. That's a lot of bites waiting to happen.

[okgo]

What does the register element mean? That they can keep the dog or?

[bmwmike]

okgo said:

What does the register element mean? That they can keep the dog or?

Bully's are banned. To keep one, they have to be registered. So this one was legal. That's my understanding, happy to be corrected if i'm wrong.

Anyone keeping one of these must have rocks for brains IMO, especially if they have kids in the house.

[Slow.Patrol]

And another, dog on dog this time in Glasgow

https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/scottish-news/...

[Viper201]

And the week before the above Labrador attack, 2 Bullys killed a Chihuahua.

https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/scottish-news/...

[Mont Blanc]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13262273/...

First known prosecution of an owner since the new rules.

The bloke in question looks exactly how you would picture an XL Bully owner to look. It’s almost perfect.

[mikebradford]

I understand people wanting a dog.
However those wanting an aggressive dog should accept if it causes harm they're responsible.
We have a neighbour that walks his 2 big dogs regularly past my house. I'm not sure the breed. However they go mental if they see any other dog. They've also got aggressive with people.
He's a big bloke but struggles to hold them on a leash.

I simply don't understand someone wanting to have that type of issue in their lives.

[bennno]

mikebradford said:

I understand people wanting a dog.
However those wanting an aggressive dog should accept if it causes harm they're responsible.
We have a neighbour that walks his 2 big dogs regularly past my house. I'm not sure the breed. However they go mental if they see any other dog. They've also got aggressive with people.
He's a big bloke but struggles to hold them on a leash.

I simply don't understand someone wanting to have that type of issue in their lives.

Small brain and / or penis as a rule.

[Mont Blanc]

mikebradford said:

I understand people wanting a dog.
However those wanting an aggressive dog should accept if it causes harm they're responsible.
We have a neighbour that walks his 2 big dogs regularly past my house. I'm not sure the breed. However they go mental if they see any other dog. They've also got aggressive with people.
He's a big bloke but struggles to hold them on a leash.

I simply don't understand someone wanting to have that type of issue in their lives.

Absolutely baffles me as well. Don't understand it.

People just making their own life harder for absolutely no reason. I know several people who have previously owned things like massive German Shepherds, or those Akita 'Japanese fighting dogs', Rottweilers and so on.

Every time someone came to their house, they would all have to go through this ridiculous performance of yelling through the front door to guests not to come in until they had locked the dog away. They would then spend the next few minutes wrestling a barking dog into a spare room, and then spending the rest of the evening worrying that a guest might open the wrong door and be savaged by their dog.

Walks were worry-filled affairs wrestling to control the dogs whilst they strained at the lead.

I know all dogs can bite or be bad tempered, but you would have to be an imbecile to not realise that many breeds are bred to be larger, more aggressive, and so on. Just get something else if you want a pet.

[alabbasi]

mikebradford said:

I understand people wanting a dog.
However those wanting an aggressive dog should accept if it causes harm they're responsible.
We have a neighbour that walks his 2 big dogs regularly past my house. I'm not sure the breed. However they go mental if they see any other dog. They've also got aggressive with people.
He's a big bloke but struggles to hold them on a leash.

I simply don't understand someone wanting to have that type of issue in their lives.

You don't really sound like a dog person so it's understandable that you don't understand. Dogs getting excited around other dogs is pretty normal and likely more to do with socialization then breed. You might be mistaking their excitement for aggression which is normal for people who aren't dog people.

Many dogs owners owners consider their animals as members of their family. The good mostly outweighs the bad so they put up with the issues. Pretty much any dog between the age of 4 months and 3 years is mental. They grow out of it.