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.
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)