Are those smaller bully dogs as vicious as the xl type?

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I came out of a client's house yesterday and went out of the back gate and started to walk along the lane to my car. A man was standing there with two smaller bully dogs talking to someone over their gate. As soon as he saw me he dropped the dogs leads and carried on talking. The dogs were both watching me. The man kept looking at me and saw me standing there a few metres away as I didn't know what to do.

I called out to him to ask him if he would pick the dogs leads up. I was polite and non confrontational and just wanted to go home. He started saying they were soft and wouldn't hurt anyone. I said that I wasn't to know that. He then said they'd be muzzled if they were dangerous. I then walked past and went to my car.

I know these dogs aren't included in with the xl bully type, but aren't they the same apart from smaller in stature?

I don't know why owners automatically assume that everyone knows everything about every dog out there and we can magically tell the vicious ones from the friendly kind 🙄 why do they have to argue?

Completely rightly so @Wontletmeusemynormalname , why can some authorities in some countries see reason and logic in registering dogs, but the UK can't? How hard is it to implement the policy and also generate a significant number of jobs (for all those XL bully lovers)? The dog tax would cover a good amount of the salary/ wage, and more dog owners would be responsible.

Also, again this is all from hearsay, but if the dog contains DNA of prohibited breeds in certain German states & Austria, then a higher tax must be paid each year. If I remember correctly, dogs must have insurance too, which is all based on their DNA and age etc. why oh why are we so lax in the UK concerning dogs? Why can't we provide a standard of excellence in something rather than skimming the edge of hell?

I think it's because it isn't viewed as such a big problem. Dog attacks, especially fatal ones are so rare that it isn't a high priority for the government. The ban was lip service to tick a box.

Of course, I am not meaning to trivialise anything, one death is one too many. There is an increase, but per capita, not really.

I don't think anything else is likely to happen any time soon.

I don't have a problem with registering those dogs, or preventing them breeding, but I do think that they need to think of what they're going to do about all these weak men who want those dogs in order to look strong.