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Government bosses have issued a new warning to XL bully owners in the UK, as most only have one month to act. The XL bully breed was added to the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 on December 31 last year.
Lisa Willis, who was mauled by an XL bully months after the ban, said the attack had felt like a "horror movie" and the law was "useless". She said owners of dogs like the one that savaged her arm ...
Limerick and Cork City councils are among those who have seen dogs surrendered to them since the ban was introduced ...
It became illegal to own an XL bully, the largest type of American bully dog, without an exemption certificate from 1 February last ... dog attacks over the 12 months to 31 January this year.
One month later, a 12-month-old girl was seriously injured after being attacked by an XL bully dog in Lixnaw in Co Kerry. From October 1st the importing, breeding, selling and rehoming of XL ...
More than 20,000 dog attacks were reported to police across England and Wales in the 12 months since the introduction of the XL Bully ban, with one force seeing the number increase by more than a ...
The following month, John McColl ... possession or custody of a dog to which section 1 of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 applied, namely an XL Bully. Mr McColl's family said in a statement after ...
This article first appeared on Galway Bay FM Just one XL Bully type dog was surrendered in Galway from February to the end of ...
More than 100 dangerous dogs have been destroyed a month since XL bullies were banned - with an ... dogs continue to present a significant one. Alongside this, we are working hard to encourage ...