- By Tom Edwards
- BBC Hereford & Worcester
The proprietor of an American XL bully canine is asking for the brand new regulation that bans the breed to be overturned.
Ellee Keegan, 26, from Worcestershire, is an element a marketing campaign which has raised £160,000 in direction of a authorized problem towards the federal government’s choice.
The authorities mentioned “decisive” motion had been taken to guard the general public from “tragic canine assaults.”
The canine was added to the banned listing following plenty of assaults involving the breed., a few of which have been deadly.
Campaigners need the ban to get replaced by a regulation which requires all canine homeowners to be licensed as a substitute.
Ms Keegan, who owns a XL Bully known as Costa, mentioned the regulation was focusing on accountable canine homeowners unfairly and that campaigners needed to make sure “harsher legal guidelines” for canine homeowners, “and never the canine”.
She described her eight stone (50kg) XL bully, who’s round 20 months old, as “dopey, humorous and intelligent,” and “a mummy’s boy”.
‘Well behaved canine’
“They aren’t aggressive dogs, it is all concerning the homeowners and being a accountable proprietor,” she mentioned.
Ms Keegan, from Rubery, close to Bromsgrove, mentioned she had acquired “combined critiques” from the general public when walking Costa.
But she mentioned her canine was like her “little shadow at home”, including he beloved youngsters and was “mild” round infants and toddlers.
“He’s a really nicely behaved canine,” she defined. “They simply need to be beloved and petted by everybody that they see.
“So it is heart-breaking that they get this dangerous stigma round them.”