RSPCA shelters throughout Lancashire are in peril of changing into overcrowded as many XL Bully dogs are being dumped and deserted earlier than the ban.
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The RSPCA has stated there are anecdotal studies of dogs being surrendered or deserted throughout the rescue sector, with fears that because the deadline for the XL bully canine ban looms, the issue will worsen.
Since the ban has been applied there have been many heartbreaking studies dominating the headlines together with a canine, considered an XL Bully, found dead in a South London alleyway in suspicious circumstances after his entrance legs had been certain collectively and he had been set alight.
Rumours of distressed dogs being left to rot alone at a home in Chorley have additionally been circulating on social media, with one lady claiming that an American Bulldog and a Staffordshire Bull Terrier had been deserted by their proprietor with no meals or water and had been residing in squalor.
Worshippers had been shocked to discover a petrified Staffordshire Bull Terrier cross left tied to Sacred Heart Church on Talbot Road in Blackpool, together with a heartbreaking handwritten notice from the previous proprietor which learn: ‘I love you and I’m so so so sorry’.
Thankfully, each have now been placed within the care of the RSPCA.
Dr Samantha Gaines – a canine welfare skilled on the RSPCA, informed Express.co.uk the animal charity’s XL Bully ban recommendation web site has been inundated by guests.
The determination to ban XL Bully dogs was made following a regarding rise in assaults from these harmful dogs, with 23 folks sadly shedding their lives after vicious canine assaults within the final three years. XL Bullies have been concerned in lots of of those tragic deaths.
On October 31 XL Bully dogs had been added to the Dangerous Dogs Act, with homeowners given two months to arrange for the primary stage of the ban.
New restrictions on the XL Bully dogs which got here into power on New Year’s Eve makes it a authorized requirement for all XL Bully dogs to be stored on a lead and muzzled when in public. It can also be unlawful to breed, promote, promote, present, alternate, abandon or let XL Bully dogs stray.
In a stance with their dogs, many homeowners have additionally ventered out sporting muzzles, claiming it’s unhealthy homeowners and never unhealthy dogs.
Owners are additionally being urged to use to register their present XL Bully dogs, because the Government takes motion to securely handle the present inhabitants of the breed earlier than the deadline when the ban comes into power on 1 February.
Owning an unregistered canine after this date can be a felony offence, with homeowners who don’t dealing with a felony report and a limiteless superb.
