Another XL Bully Attack

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Vicious XL Bully attack leaves five-year-old boy with life-changing injuries and needing facial reconstruction surgery | Daily Mail Online

Little Teddy needed 100 stitches in his face but was lucky to escape with his life.

Is it unreasonable now to ask the Government to give a warning in the media, that children are to be kept away from these dogs? Not to enter a house or garden where they're known to be? Even if told that the dog is safe, which they are not.
This little chap was visiting a home with his family when it struck.

It's likely that an arrest of the dog's owner is imminent, simply because the paper isn't allowing comments. Not to add to the parent's distress, but they must have been living in a cave not to have known the danger. Now they're calling for a cull.

I dare all those who say “it’s not the dog it’s the owner” to comment now

Just waiting for posters from a few threads back to come on talking about their massive, harmless dope of a dog. They seem to have gone pretty quiet.

Is it unreasonable now to ask the Government to give a warning in the media, that children are to be kept away from these dogs? Not to enter a house or garden where they're known to be? Even if told that the dog is safe, which they are not

Why on earth would a statement from the government be needed or be beneficial

Anyone with an ounce of common sense knows not to let children near these animals. Its been well enough documented how dangerous they are.

A reminder from the government will do fuck all. Sensible people know and the rest will say it wouldnt happen to them because their dog wouldnt hurt a fly. The only effective action from the government is a total ban on them

Yup. It’s not the dog it’s the owner apparently! What a load of shit that turned out to be! It’s absolutely the dog!!

But why legislate against dogs that aren’t actually the problem here?
XL Bully’s are THE issue here.

Getting ahead for once and not just reacting. Cull the bloody XLs now and safeguard the rest of us against the idiots that will start breeding the next killer dog

The parents should be arrested for putting their child in this situation.

Too many parents just don’t give a shite.

Oh the drama everyone caused when the ban came into place. Posts on facebook saying “look he wouldn’t harm a fly and they want me to muzzle him”!

If you let your child go into a home where one is present and not locked in another room or muzzle, that's on you.

Er plenty of people have been attacked in public spaces…

unfortunately a large % of the population are stupid

True but a lot of the victims ARE children of parents who have these dogs around their kids

Yes & I feel very sorry for those dc, at risk of harm from stupid parents & they have no choice.

I - and others - keep posting that this is the UKs equivalent of the high school massacre. Happens again and again and again and again with nothing really being done.

With so many attacks and so little done, it will only be a matter of time before some numbnuts is walking (or to be more accurate is being walked by) one of these mutt machine guns and it will slip the lead (if it has one) and get into a playground. And all my fervent praying - and yours - isn't going to stop it.

I would happily see a law to cull. They are a danger to children and other people

Yes your posts have made me think the same

It's the issue of them in public too. Idiots who don't muzzle them then walk around public parks where kids are playing. They have literally no control over them and wouldn't be able to do a thing to stop them if they attacked.

I certainly wouldn't visit a house with one and I think anyone who has them as a pet (especially in a house with kids) is fucking ridiculous. But you can't help bumping into them out and about sometimes. Then what do you do?

Just cull the lot of them.

That's a massive generalisation and horribly classist - doesn't mean you're wrong though...

@Mlanket , I totally agree , I really can’t comprehend why you would have an XL bully at all , it having one around children is insane .

Yet you still have the stupid people on FB setting up groups to "protect the XL Bully breed". I'm sick of hearing "it's not the dog it's the owner", I know that is true in some cases but these dogs are dangerous regardless of the owner.

That poor little lad.

Why oh why are people so utterly thick.

It says in the article that the owner has been arrested and the dog destroyed.

The incomprehensible and frustrating part is that in comparison to gun laws in the US this is so much easier to legislate against, we don't have the difficulty of the constitution process

How many threads now? So many. And nothing. It's madness

So glad to hear that and so they should be

Too little.

Too late.

Awful dogs. I know a couple that split up over this. Friend was pregnant and her DP brought an XL bully puppy home one day and he couldn't train it. She wanted him to re-home before the baby came but he wouldn't. Ended up with her leaving over it and she won't allow access to the child now because of the worries over this dog. Problem is with these dogs is these attacks are in their nature, I think they have a kill drive. Pairing that with the stupid and unreasonable owners that seem to buy them constantly ends in disaster.