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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Tom Wall

‘I was screaming at people to get my little girl’: one year on from XL bully dogs ban

An American XL bully dog
More than 55,000 XL bullies have now been registered by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Photograph: PA Images/Alamy

Marie Hay had just arrived at the wide-open expanse of Redcar Beach on Teesside when two out-of-control XL bullies mauled her beloved husky Naevia. The bullies ripped open Naevia’s chest and injured Hay’s older daughter, as well as three other people who rushed to help.

“I was absolutely terrified,” she said. “I was just screaming at people to get my little girl, who was only five at the time, off the beach. Everybody was terrified.”

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