It’s not a great time to be an American XL Bully. The breed, an extra-large pitbull variant, has been blamed for a threefold rise in deadly canine assaults within the UK; after a sequence of high-profile maulings, bullies have right now been added to the checklist of breeds restricted beneath the Dangerous Dogs Act.
Incidents involving the dogs have been met with a weird insistence from some quarters that no, there’s nothing particularly harmful in regards to the XL bully.