- By Tom Edwards
- BBC Hereford & Worcester
Ellee Keegan, from Rubery, close to Bromsgrove, owns a 20-month-old American XL bully known as Costa
The proprietor of an American XL bully canine is asking for the brand new legislation that bans the breed to be overturned.
Ellee Keegan, 26, from Worcestershire, is an element a marketing campaign which has raised £160,000 in the direction of a authorized problem towards the federal government’s resolution.
The authorities mentioned “decisive” motion had been taken to guard the general public from “tragic canine assaults.”
The canine was added to the banned checklist following quite a few assaults involving the breed., a few of which have been deadly.
Image supply, Elle Keegan
Ms Keegan mentioned her XL bully was “light” and “beloved youngsters”
Campaigners need the ban to get replaced by a legislation which requires all canine house owners to be licensed as a substitute.
Ms Keegan, who owns a XL Bully known as Costa, mentioned the legislation was focusing on accountable canine house owners unfairly and that campaigners needed to make sure “harsher legal guidelines” for canine house owners, “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 house owners and being a accountable proprietor,” she mentioned.
Ms Keegan, from Rubery, close to Bromsgrove, mentioned she had acquired “blended evaluations” 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 “light” round infants and toddlers.
“He’s a really effectively behaved canine,” she defined. “They simply wish to be beloved and petted by everybody that they see.
“So it is heart-breaking that they get this dangerous stigma round them.”
