00:00 Under new rules which will come into force at the end of the year, it will be
00:04 illegal to breed, sell, advertise, exchange, gift, rehome, abandon or allow
00:12 ex-celled bully dogs to stray in England and Wales. The ban on the dog is not the
00:17 area where the problem is. So the area where the basically we've had this
00:21 problem before haven't we with other types of dog and we're going to have a
00:25 problem again with a different type of dog because the actual problem and the
00:30 cause the problem is with people. So those people might actually be political
00:34 leaders who actually haven't implemented the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991. It can be
00:40 opportunist breeders and then irresponsible owners. Local animal rescue
00:47 Freshfields say they believe successive governments have completely disregarded
00:51 the needs of the companion animals and the animal welfare sector. Dogs will need
00:56 to go into kennels while they're assessed and where those kennels exist
01:01 all the rescues are chocker already and then they've all got to go to the court
01:06 to actually confirm whether they are going to go on the banned list or
01:10 whether that's a dangerous dog or not. The courts can't cope already with the
01:15 amount of work that they've got so where is the capacity going to come from? Where
01:19 is the funding going to come from? I mean at that point the whole plan is going to
01:23 fail. The announcement follows Rishi Sunak's pledge in September to put in
01:28 place laws to ban the breed by the end of the year following a rise in fatal
01:32 attacks. When Rishi Sunak announced the ban we were distraught about the impact
01:38 knowing that it would impact on rescues and impact on people and who owners who
01:43 are responsible and the thing is is it sort of looks great to say we're going
01:50 to get a working group together we're going to put a ban on it
01:54 sounds like we're going to take action but that action has already been taken.
01:58 The Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 is there to deal with problem dogs it's all in place
02:04 already the reason that it's not working is because none of the resources have
02:08 been put into implementing it and those resources are police and they are courts
02:13 and they are assessors and it's not cheap. The pet industry is worth at least
02:18 six billion pounds. None of the revenues of the pet industry are actually going
02:22 back into some of the problems that come and the issues that come from having
02:27 pets and so yeah I think they'd be really helpful if some you need basically
02:33 you need to put some resources and infrastructure behind it and all we need
02:36 to do is implement what's already in place it's as simple as that really. From
02:40 the 31st of December 2023 these dogs must be kept on a lead and muzzled in
02:45 public. From the 1st of February 2024 it will become illegal to own an XL bully
02:52 dog if it is not on the registered index of exempt dogs. Owners who fail to comply
02:57 face a criminal record, a fine and their dog could be seized.
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