The home secretary is seeking "urgent advice" about banning American XL Bully dogs as footage shows one of the animals attacking an 11-year-old girl and a man in Birmingham. Suella Braverman has said the animals are a "clear and lethal" danger after the video of the attack in Bordesley Green emerged on the social media platform TikTok. West Midlands Police are investigating after two men, who were bitten and left with injuries to their shoulders and arms, were taken to hospital to be treated for their injuries after the incident on Saturday.
A lotta dumb asses in these comments don’t know nothing about bulldogs
They have some of the highest kill counts…
Stop defending aggressive dogs, looks bad. It’ll look extra bad when they maul for because they are such sweet dogs…
Did you know, on average, the first person on the scene (and usually the only person to identify the breed) is not even a journeyman on dog breeds? Most medium sized terriers, spitzes, retrievers, mastiffs, and spaniels, unless fully pure-bred, will often be mistaken as pitbulls (especially in North America)
And I’m sure those dogs were raised in a loving household, and not at all raised as attack dogs or abused at all /s
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Are we comparing dogs to guns now? I think I need to take a break from the internet
Are both dangerous in the wrong hands? Yes.
Seeing things you don’t like and blaming the internet…
One of them is a living thing…
Some people are responsible with guns, but I’m still comfortable with getting rid of all of them because it’s not like the guns would be hurt with that decision. They’re inanimate objects.
I’m less comfortable with putting down an entire breed of animal because some people are irresponsible assholes, and either abuse their pets or raise them to be attack dogs.
You’re assuming how this can be done. The law in the UK is that it is illegal to import or breed these dogs. You can implement legislation in which dogs can live out their lives and eventually it ain’t a problem.
Of course, I am not willing to watch children and old people getting mauled because you care about violent dogs designed to kill. Kill 'em like they kill me burgers…
As I pointed out in another comment, we don’t know that this is how this works. Nature vs nurture isn’t some no brainer just because it’s about something you don’t like.
But regardless, no thank you. I don’t want any animal to be artificially driven to extinction because people are horrible and thus raise them horribly.
Or just stop breeding them. This isn’t controversial. Humans created them, humans need to stop creating them.
Are we talking about bulldogs or pit bulls?
A lot of people don’t understand early socialization and strict training is needed for ANY breed.
Regarding my own experience, Akitas and Chows were the most aggressive breed I’ve ever come across. I have never seen Pits/Staffies/Bully breeds (whatever you want to call them) in an aggressive manner - if they were aggressive, I’d love to know what type of training the owner offered them.
Breed specific legislation should be banned everywhere as it is in more than 20 states… as recommended by the CDC and the Humane society. Everyone on here fearmongering about specific dog breeds are just showing their own ignorance and that their own views on the topic are still informed by racist media reporting from the 1980s.
Why? It hurts nobody to stop breeding a certain type of dog based on their natural aggressiveness. Except breeders.
Yes we ended up with a dog that was dumped on us, she sure looks pit, and has such a sweet nature. Is curious and gentle with the cats, plays well with our other dog. But she is strong as fuck, so we train her not to approach the door, not to greet anyone until we say so, give her plenty of exercise and a firm understanding of her place in the household - that she is not protecting us, we are protecting her. I’ve only had big dogs before and we train her as though she is twice her size because in strength she is twice her size. I will say, she is much more responsive to training than her “sister”, despite the reputation. We would not have chosen this dog but certainly not going to kill her for simply existing.
Every single one of been around was extremely aggressive and they were bery much spoiled, loved, and owned by people who had the money to do so. And the money to pay for legal fees. At least a German shepherd will take to training. Pits for a while wwre thought of having problems with their brains not fitting in their skulls because of how they would all start ok but then became aggressive and unpredictable as if their brains were being damaged by outgrowing their skulls. Obviously this is idiotic but it’s so prevalent that these dogs flip a switch and explode that myths were built around them.