It's just a distraction from the UK's anemic growth. Obviously he has done nothing that worked for the economy, and the conservatives have no ideas. The UK GDP has basically not grown since 2007.
Without a doubt it is a dead cat issue (no pun intended). Sunak doesn't give a rat's anus about the people of the UK. There is plenty of evidence that his interests are purely financial and self motivated. But that doesn't deflect that there is an issue, and yet again they are making pointless legislation to deal with it.
There are massive differences between implementing a ban on pit bulls in a single city (Denver) and across an entire nation (the UK). The US is such a mess of federal, state, county, etc. laws that it is difficult to enforce such a law, but in the UK, it’s much easier.
Honestly I’d go a lot further and ban all breeds with significant health issues as well, to be honest.
Totally not a biased source, with no actual statistics or studies to back them up - ah right. We have much fewer dog attacks and especially fatal dog attacks in the UK than the US.
Same as when they last banned a breed. They must all be registered, muzzled, and neutered. If not, fines/seizure and possible imprisonment of the owner.
So I read this article recently, and it suggested that some American breeders think there's specific issues with the breeding line of XLs that are bred in the UK.
At least partly because scumbags who want to abuse a dog until it's violent and dangerous don't buy shih tzus to start with. If you ban a breed because it's "dangerous" you'll see people defy it, evade it through hybridizing (which already happened, the bully xl is a hybrid of the already-banned bull terrier) or just start abusing and selectively breeding a different large breed until it's as violent as this breed. I'm not even necessarily against sunsetting this breed, it feels like we're in a situation where a lot of bad decisions we've made in the past have made this a good decision. But I think that there are a lot of core problems that won't be solved just by playing whack a mole with the current breed making headlines
Because when they do attack they are capable of doing serious damage; enough to be reported. No one is gonna report a dachshund attack for example so statistically it looks like dachshunds never attack people.
Seems like we need to implement dog licences instead. It takes skill to own a well trained dog. Then just make sure people who are miscreants are banned from owning them.
I hadn't heard the term either until recently, and had to look it up. An American bully is a cross between pit bulls and bulldogs. A bully XL is the largest variant.
The breed is not an officially-recognized one, so definitions are a bit fuzzy.