Dangerous Dogs Owners

The local priest said she was considering going back to education to be a SNA teacher, and she had ambitions.

Whatever that means.

I would imagine that the last thing on your mind when one of these yokes has your arm/leg in its mouth is to be trying to get out your penknife, open it and start trying to stab a dog that weighs nearly as much as yourself.

Just to put it in perspective I have a GSP at about 30kg. He is very passive, but when he gets playful he can get boisterous and has knocked me off my feet on a few occasions.

The XL Bully is 50 or 60kgs in weight.

yeah it's fairly ridiculous having to resort to foreign press & social media to get proper coverage of this?? its a massive public interest story yet the reporting only scratches the detail/sheer level of violence that was involved here. NOBODY except the teeny number of fools who own/breed/fanboy these animals want them to exist. we had a major warning back in 2022 after that child in Wexford was maimed for life. the press and everyone else needs to get very real about the dangers these animals pose to the general public.

its very easy. make it so they don't get to exist, ILLEGAL. if they're spotted someone calls the ARU and they shoot them. DEAD. end of problem.

These breeds should not exist. They were created for specific hunting or attacking circumstances, they're not pets. No bad dog, only bad owners is the stupid argument people will make against any sort of gun control. No one needs these dogs for their original purpose, they should not be allowed in society. You need to protect herds from wolves? Then you can have a large fighting dog. Everyone else can **** off

That's a weak argument. Of course banning something isn't going to completely stop the problem but it will of course help. I saw a nice lady walking around with a Japanese ikianta she could barely control. Some people just need to be told to cop on.

Plus, these dogs could cost in excess of 1k so it's hardly not going to dent an owners want of one of it's taken off them. (Multiple times)

A short time a go there were only 2 American XL Bullies in Ireland. One male and one female.

Now there are hundreds of them. 

It's very likely that all these dogs are inbred from only few sires and breeding bitches and furthermore, due to lack of records siblings and close relatives are being bred off each other. Mother/Son, Father/Daughter, Uncle/Niece etc…

I’d imagine every single XL Bullie in Ireland is very very inbred.

Inbreeding manifests itself in a number of ways, but the most important to many owners is likely to be the fact that less intelligent dogs are much harder to train than smarter ones. Dogs that are inbred are usually less intelligent and sometimes more aggressive than their mixed breed counterparts.

Throw all that in the mix with heavily muscled dogs bred for combat, inexperienced owners, minor owners and unsocialised dogs when it goes wrong it really goes wrong.

Yet folks will still argue that it’s not the dogs, it’s the owners. It’s both. Irresponsible owners in possession of very dangerous animals. Recipe for disaster.

Horrible breed of dog that has no place in human society.

Candidates in tomorrow's elections will be desperate to secure any last minute votes. Message them telling them you'll give them a vote if they can get XL Bullies banned.

She had her whole life in front of her.

That's it. It's the equivalent of keeping a lion, tiger, or other big cat in your house.

Might have raised them from a cub and it's all well and good and great for the followers on the Gram until something sets them off and it's snapped its doting owners neck.

But we are not “effectively” targeting dogs. There are no banned breeds here. People cannot be trusted to own and control these very powerful animals. Hence take away the animals.

BAffled by the logic of some people, or perhaps that should be stupidity?

As someone said earlier, there's now families sitting watching TV with their kids, with an xl Bully in the room. Maybe 2, maybe 4?

If it was explained to them that there's a chance they could lose a child if their dog went mad for a minute, would they get rid of it? Are they happy to risk the life of their child just to own a dog? If there answer is "yes I'll take the chance" then it says a lot about them as a parent, or as a human.