Dog house owners have been left scratching their heads over whether or not their canine counts as an XL Bully forward of a brand new ban coming into drive subsequent week.
From December 31 will probably be unlawful to promote, abandon, give away and breed XL Bullies and the creatures should be stored on a lead and put on a muzzle in public. But with many canine which will come below the XL Bully umbrella time period really being a mix of different breeds, some individuals aren’t positive whether or not their pet counts.
Taking to Facebook assist teams, one individual wrote: “Hello everyone, I’m just looking for some advice, I have a Staffordshire bull terrier, pure breed and I’m unsure if he’s part of the ban! Is anyone with a Staffordshire registering [theirs]?”
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Meanwhile one other added: “Same here we are unsure about her she is registered as a American bulldog/ sha pei but looks more of a staff.” Animal lover Patrick Swain, who has an XL Bully himself, stated many fellow Bully followers are confused about what counts.
“[The government] has just said the XL Bully is banned,” he instructed the Daily Star. “They haven’t said anything with Bully in it, because you’ve got the Bulldog, you’ve got the Pit Bull Terrier, you’ve got the Staffordshire Bull Terrier, all the bully breeds.”
The XL Bully was developed by crossing numerous different forms of canine together with the American Pit Bull and the Staffordshire Bull Terrier. This means it may be more durable to know for positive whether or not a canine counts as an XL Bully.
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The breed has solely lately been formally outlined within the UK forward of the ban. The authorities web site reads: “A suspected XL Bully breed type does not need to fit the physical description perfectly. If your dog meets the minimum height measurements and a substantial number of these characteristics, it could be considered an XL Bully breed type. This includes if it was not sold as an XL Bully [and] cross breeds that look more like XL Bully dogs than any other type of dog.”
Aside from broader bodily descriptions of the canine, grownup XL Bully canine are outlined as 51cm in top for males or 48cm for females measured on the withers (the best level on the shoulder blade).
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But Rachel Fletcher, Head of Crime and Regulatory at Slater Heelis Solicitors, stated the laws “isn’t that tight.” She instructed us: “The definition of what is an XL [Bully] is so unclear.”
“The definition is so wooly. They’ve come up with this wooly definition that says if your dog meets the minimum height and matches a substantial number of characteristics [then it will be classed as an XL Bully], but they’ve not said what a substantial number of characteristics is. Let’s say there’s 10 characteristics, they haven’t said if a dog has, say, over 50% then it fits the criteria.”
The Daily Star has contacted the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs for remark.
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