Why American Bully XL dogs have exploded in popularity

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Why American Bully XL dogs have exploded in popularity
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The arguments used to defend this dangerous breed are often misleading

dog, with frequent reports of bites and maulings by the breed.from Birmingham filmed at the weekend. In the video, an American Bully dog attacks an 11-year-old girl, bites and wrestles a man trying to defend her, then relentlessly pursues and assaults another man as he flees, repeatedly pulling him down to the ground.

Pit Bulls are banned in the UK under the 1991 Dangerous Dogs Act. So if American Bullies are a subtype of Pit Bulls, why aren’t they already prohibited under the same legislation?claims to have fought several legal cases They’re also legal to breed, and the breeding in many cases appears to have been focused on making the dogs ever-stockier, ever-more muscular, and ever-more powerful and intimidating. The campaigning group Bully Watch UKmost American Bully dogs in the UK can be traced back “to either fighting bloodlines or alleged human-aggressive bloodlines” – that is, the known ancestors of currently-living Bullies were themselves highly dangerous animals.

But there’s also a strange paradox. Alongside the adverts where the dogs are wreathed in flames and made to look as threatening as possible, it’s also regularly emphasised, for example on the

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