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Owners of XL Bully dogs are planning a get along with their pets, to provide them an opportunity to play collectively in a well-liked park close to Sheffield.
The animals will all be muzzled and on leads on the deliberate assembly at Rother Valley Country Park subsequent month.
It comes three months after strict new legal guidelines have been put in place banning the breed, which means all of the dogs needed to be neutered and can’t exit with out muzzles and leads, following reports of attacks by the breed.
Many homeowners say the difficulty is dangerous homeowners, not the dogs.
The XL Bully Dog Walk is deliberate for Saturday, April 20 at 11am, and has been promoted on social media as an opportunity to satisfy others and permit the dogs to nonetheless take pleasure in their walks.
The organiser mentioned on a public Facebook publish: “Since the horrible ban that has occurred to our infants, I’ve seen a number of canine walks being organized however struggled to search out one in Sheffield for my two XLs.
“I’m hoping you’ll all be part of me together with your lovely fur infants for a pleasant canine walk round rother valley to permit our dogs to nonetheless take pleasure in their walks.”
She mentioned different breeds have been welcome, and they’d be assembly on the Grant and McAllin entrance, earlier than taking a walk across the lake and visiting the cafe.
It comes at a time when homeowners of XL Bullys have advised the The Star of the difficulties they’ve confronted because the ban, in addition to the prices they’ve run up.
One proprietor, Janine Oxley, advised The Star this month how whereas people as soon as petted her canine, they now picked up their kids or crossed the road to keep away from him. She mentioned the primary time she had taken her pet out for a walk after the ban got here into drive, she was decreased tears by the way in which one other canine proprietor handled her and her pet.
Janine has additionally raised issues concerning the excessive cost of pet medical insurance for the breed, in addition to different monetary pressures that the breed’s homeowners now face because the ban got here in at first of the yr.
She mentioned: “I perceive why individuals have been involved, and perceive one thing wanted to be finished. But I feels that the legal guidelines ought to have focused canine homeowners, not the dogs, maybe bringing in strict licences. I helps the return of canine licences, which have been scrapped in 1987, and really feel Bruno now not lives the blissful life he did beforehand.”
Meanwhile, Sheffield businessman Michael Hill has created a canine park the place individuals can take their XL Bullys to run free in a safe, sealed off subject.
