
American Bully XL attacks are likely to continue to rise now that the UK has let the “genie out of the bottle” with a boom in unlicensed breeding – and even a ban is unlikely to stop them, an expert has warned.
The dogs have been linked by campaigners to at least 14 human deaths since 2021, with the breed blamed for hundreds of attacks on dogs and other pets since emerging in the UK in recent years.