An XL bully owner mauled by a dog in her garden has hit out at a year-old ban on the breed after figures obtained by The Independent showed there were at least 23,000 reported dog attacks in the 12 months since it began.
It became illegal to own an XL bully, the largest type of American bully dog, without an exemption certificate from 1 February last year after former prime minister Rishi Sunak declared the breed a danger to communities.
