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00:04these are some of the most dangerous dogs in the UK if they are not raised correctly then they
00:13become lethal killing machine fact the XL bully was banned two years ago but they're still taking
00:22lives I got a phone call from my brother he said that Morgan was dead she'd been killed by a
00:29dog
00:29kennels housing seized dogs are bursting at the scenes hello we've got a job on we've got a dog
00:36that's attacked a person in the car traumatic injuries that you would see on the equivalent of
00:42a battlefield animal welfare campaigners say it's time to rethink the law the problem with these
00:49dogs is this end of the lead not that end the problem is the person who's holding the dog
00:55panorama investigates whether the ban on XL bullies is working
01:11it was just a normal day I'd been at work Kayla had been at work Morgan had just moved down
01:18to Bristol
01:18on the Saturday it was February 2025 when 19 year old Morgan Dorset left her Shropshire home for a new
01:27life in Bristol it's a very alternative city it's got the music the art that she likes
01:36she just loved life yeah she was going down to see if this was the life that she wanted I
01:45will see you
01:45soon I love you just four days after arriving in Bristol Morgan was attacked by an XL bully in the
01:54flat where she was staying Morgan's uncle was the first to hear the news he literally just said Morgan's
02:03dad Murray Morgan's been killed as the family drove south from Shropshire back home Marie's video
02:10doorbell rang it was the police through the intercom Marie was able to speak to them from her car
02:19are you at home at the moment no obviously we've already heard from my brother okay so we're on our
02:29way to Bristol already when you get down there and the police down there will be able to contact you
02:38as well yeah it's all right then oh my god our condolences for the news obviously yeah thank you
02:47oh my god and it wasn't until they said our deepest condolences that I knew for definite that she was
02:55actually dead what was the breed of dog that killed Morgan it was an XL bully
03:07the dog weighed more than her he went for the neck I hope and pray that it was quick the
03:16amount of
03:16questions you ask your big sister every day like what am I gonna wear I don't know does this look
03:26okay
03:27you know just big sister will give you an honest answer she's always been there she was the constant in
03:37my life
03:41yeah until she wasn't
03:45a woman has since been charged with having a dog dangerously out of control causing injury resulting
03:52in death Morgan was killed just one year after a new law was introduced to stop fatal dog attacks
04:00like this the legislation doesn't work my daughter wouldn't be dead now if it did work Kayla wouldn't
04:08have lost his sister the law needs to change three years ago I investigated the trade in extreme dogs
04:17for panorama I found American bullies being used as status symbols by criminals this is my boy that's
04:28going on my bitch short compacts massive head really short years the XL is the largest type of the American
04:36bully breed we found it was being deliberately bred for increased size and muscle an XL bully is a big
04:44broad meaty dog big chunky head okay um some would say intimidating looking dog other would go no they're
04:52just a big soft teddy bear if they are raised correctly temperament is fantastic and they are
04:59incredibly reliable um dopey family pets they are not raised correctly then they become lethal
05:06killing machine fact in the three years leading up to the ban the UK government recorded 23 fatal dog attacks
05:18it's said the XL
05:19bully was involved in many of the deaths a heartbreaking note a close-knit community torn apart
05:28police say the death of a 17-month-old girl after being attacked by a pet dog has left her
05:33family and the local
05:34community is killed in the Staffordshire police have described as an horrendous attack by two dogs in broad
05:40daylight senior police officers say they were becoming overwhelmed what were your officers facing individuals with
05:50traumatic injuries that you would say on the equivalent of a battlefield we were saying people with decapitation
05:57level injuries um and including children this was something that your officers had never really faced before
06:04hugely hugely hugely difficult for for the officers that were turning up to deal with those something
06:10had to be done yeah there's there's no doubt about that whatsoever the prime minister at the time
06:16rishi sunak said he would take action these dogs are dangerous i want to reassure the public that we
06:23will take all necessary steps to keep people safe the XL bully was added to the government's list of banned
06:31breeds in England and Wales bans in Scotland and Northern Ireland followed the dogs could no longer be used for
06:39breeding a tactic designed to eradicate it altogether for those who already owned an XL
06:46bullies they would have to apply for an exemption and follow restrictions the law had to make a dog
06:53owner accountable specifically that your dog is muzzled in public places is on lead in public places is
07:01neutered is exempt so it has a certificate of exemption as a banned breed okay that the owner has it
07:10registered
07:10to one address one address only and that they do not sell give away the dog the alternative for owners
07:18was to take 200 pounds in compensation from the government and have their dog put down if they did
07:25nothing they risked their dog being seized and destroyed
07:32the new law didn't go down well with many owners leading animal welfare groups including the rspca agreed
07:41something needed to be done but argued against a ban targeting the XL bully
07:48breed just isn't a reliable predictor of aggressive behavior but unfortunately breed specific legislation
07:54suggests to the public that there is such a thing as a dangerous breed or a dangerous type therefore by
08:00virtue of that that you've then got dogs who are safe and we know that that's not true
08:06before a ban could be imposed the government had to decide what exactly is an XL bully the definition is
08:15not
08:15as simple as you might think good girl this is a well-trained female XL bully they're smaller than the
08:24males
08:25XLs are not pure breed dogs like labradors or cocker spaniels they're a crossbreed often a mix of
08:33american pitbull terrier and american bulldog robber lane has trained dogs for more than 40 years
08:41so the government came up with a set of standards a measure set of measurements that say what makes
08:46or doesn't make an XL bully so the length of her muzzle the broadness of her skull and right across
08:53the top of her head all of those would be indications as to whether or not she's an XL bully
08:57the whole
08:58length of her body all of these measurements would be taken all the way down her body to her haunches
09:02her back legs and how straight they are all of those would be measurements that would determine
09:06whether or not she's an XL bully the government said an XL bully had to have a muscular body and
09:16a blocky head the female had to be at least 19 inches tall and 20 inches for a male it
09:24was down to
09:24the owners to do the measuring and decide whether their dog met the criteria come on then yes good
09:34sarah drewitt wasn't sure about her dog blue who was only six months old when the ban was coming in
09:41we already knew that blue was going to be a big dog just because of the size of his head
09:45his muscular
09:46body even at a young age so you exempted him as an XL bully yes we did although blue meets
09:53height i
09:53don't think he's large enough or heavy enough stocky enough or broad enough if he was 19.5
10:02i wouldn't have had to exempt him does that half an inch make him less dangerous more safe
10:09well according to the government yes it doesn't matter how tall blue is how wide his chest is
10:17he's still a good dog and he's he's got a lovely temperament but in the eyes of the government
10:22in the eyes of the government because of his height and because he ticks off a few of the criteria
10:27he's a
10:27dangerous dog more than 67 000 applications for exemption were completed by dog owners the government
10:37was only expecting 10 000. we've discovered the day the law came into force in england and wales
10:44the government changed one of the criteria after the window for exemption applications had closed on the
10:511st of february 2024 updated guidance for enforcers was issued which contained a different measurement
10:58than that which had been published for owners and the members of the public to make their assessments
11:04against the new measurement for the xl bully changed the size of the dog's head owners who'd
11:12compared their dogs against the previous size criteria and had chosen not to exempt as a result
11:18may now own a banned breed others may have had their dogs destroyed when they didn't need to
11:26if you are required to measure your dog and make a decision that impacts the rest of your dog's life
11:32and the rest of your life as well to avoid criminalizing yourself that's a really significant
11:38change because it could mean that you you made the wrong decision and it's too late by that point
11:44the government says it convened a group of experts and other stakeholders to define the physical
11:51characteristics of the xl bully it also says the changing criteria was a minor technical change and the
12:00real world impacts of this change are minimal what do you think about this criteria change
12:07and what does it say about the ban yeah because they didn't know what they were looking at what
12:13they were doing they were they don't know what an xl bully is it just seems completely inconsistent
12:19it's absolutely crazy i don't know of any other situation where we base a dog solely on its appearance
12:24if you say that dog is dangerous it's no less dangerous because its head was half an inch too
12:30small or its nose was half an inch too long it's not going to become any less dangerous
12:37the trouble with trying to ban a specific type of dog is that one size doesn't fit all
12:46so it was on the 6th of november they'd had like a belated halloween disco at school
12:51they come to coming to pick him up after school and he was all excited he was literally in like
12:57the best moves ever he had a little lollipop joanne and her five-year-old son roman began the walk
13:04home
13:04through a park in doncaster the ban had been in place for 21 months there was a man and his
13:10dog it
13:11wasn't on a lead it wasn't on a muzzle and it saw roman so i just said to him do
13:17not run as soon as i said
13:18that the dog had just ran what did you think it was in terms of the type of dog i
13:24thought it was an
13:25excel i thought it was an excel bully it was a big bully type dog what happened next is upsetting
13:32to
13:32hear he didn't stand a chance literally like the dogs just come jumped at him latched onto him by the
13:39face pulled him to the floor i thought he was dead after i literally thought oh my god like my
13:45brain's
13:45like he's dead he's dead he's dead i seen all the blood he was screaming i'm gonna die all i
13:51could
13:51really do was like scoop him up as a mother watching that happen to my child i i don't quite
13:57have the words to describe it roman was rushed to hospital and underwent surgery his scars have healed
14:08well but the attack has had a lasting effect have you still got your vaseline yeah have you been
14:14putting it on yeah yeah it's changed us forever it's changed roman forever it's changed our whole
14:19outlook right now we're planning a um a sixth birthday party which he's really excited for
14:24we could have buried him we could have we could have been planning a funeral this one stupid action
14:29from somebody who doesn't have the dog under control could literally cost your child's life
14:34a man was arrested and the dog which attacked roman was seized joanne thought it was an excel bully
14:41but an official assessment later showed it didn't meet the criteria they're still doing damage they're
14:48still attacking they're still causing trauma they're still nearly taking kids lives people are still
14:53getting bitten people are still reporting dangerous dogs to the police people are still dying because of
14:59incidents involved in dogs we ultimately want everyone to be safe and what we don't want is a focus on
15:07one type of dog and this is the problem we have to recognize that any dog poses risk to people
15:15in
15:15terms of whether or not they can use aggressive behavior it's not about breed
15:22even when xl bullies have been exempted by their owners they've still attacked in september 2025
15:3118 year old nikita was attacked by two xl bullies as she walked her puppy maizey
15:39it was all morning she was like sat looking at me waiting for me to take her
15:42so i'll just check around the corner for a little bit
15:46just yards from nikita's home two xl bullies had escaped from their garden
15:52they weren't muzzled he starts running out towards me one came around and grabbed her
16:00and just started running pulling me with her i was shouting at the dog wanting to just let go of
16:08me
16:08easy but just shouting help weren't you and let go get off yeah workmen who'd climbed onto their van's
16:18roof for safety tried to pull nikita up too but she wouldn't let go of maize's lead one of the
16:25dogs
16:26then turned on nikita it was when i was shouting at one of the dogs the other one started biting
16:33me
16:34where had you been bitten i had one on my elbow one on my leg and one on my back
16:39when did you realize
16:41that you'd lost maizey it was when the men on the band had told me i had to let go
16:47of her and they
16:49had just said she's gone and i just let go and ran i was just thinking they were going to
17:00do the same to
17:01me like they did to her and thought you were going to die
17:11figures show that dog attacks in general have been rising year on year since 2018
17:23we found that in the 12 months after the ban attacks involving xl bullies killed six people
17:33last year it was three people
17:39the police say the pressure being placed on them in dealing with dangerous dogs has never been greater
17:47in the dog world i've not known this type of demand in my 26 years of policing service so
17:53so this is this is a new and emerging threat if you like not just i guess from from the
18:01individual
18:02point of view but then from a resource point of view behind the scenes on that so the vehicles that
18:07we would have had before would have been designed around seizing sort of a 20 30 40 kilogram dog now
18:13we're
18:14into a 50 60 kilogram dog most forces have had to go out and source additional kenneling capacity to deal
18:21with the demand and our kennel numbers have gone up by around about a third since the xl bully band
18:28came in
18:32this is where many band breeds are taken when they're seized unable to deal with the numbers police
18:40police forces now rely on private specialist kennels panorama has been given access to one we've been
18:47asked not to identify its location or the staff we're obviously bringing dogs in from organized crime
18:55members they could break in and take the dogs they could hurt the staff we have other sites around the
19:02country so this is just one site of many across seven kennel sites they house more than 500 xl
19:10bullies so we've got excels so these are these have come in as strays this was tied to a tree
19:17a couple
19:18of days ago is that because they haven't got the money to take to a vet's and put it to
19:21sleep the fact
19:22they can't afford to feed it anymore this might have bitten somebody and it's just been dumped we don't
19:27know many of the excels here have been abandoned we can't rehome an xl bully under present legislation so
19:34these dogs will be destroyed today every kennel is full screens cover many of them some of the dogs
19:47are so volatile our presence could provoke them i'm taken to the back of the main compound we're going to
19:56the security section so dogs that are a little bit more challenging this is a a particular dog that
20:06dog that broke out last week changing the destruction they can do every dog is given a color grading green
20:14the least aggressive black the most now before the xl bully ban 90 of our dogs would be green easy
20:23easy
20:24easy you've seen two green now so the level of aggression has changed 100 100 this is where
20:37some of the black level dogs are kept dangerously out of control bitten a neighbor on the face
20:43preached extension high score five yeah potential fatal yeah some of these dogs will be destroyed
20:52under court order those abandoned or stray will also be put down others ceased for breaches such as
21:00being without a muzzle or having no exemption certificate may be returned by the courts to their owners
21:07i need to take this call sorry hello
21:15okay uh what is it okay we'll get a team in cheers we've got a job on 10 minutes we
21:24need to roll we've
21:25got a dog that's attacked a person in the car uh police are on scene but they can't get the
21:30dog out
21:33as a team goes to the incident vans are backed up in the yard they've been arriving all day delivering
21:40seized dogs nearly all of them suspected xl bullies some involved in attacks others abandoned the year
21:50before the ban the rspca reported 21 xl bullies haven't been dumped by their owners in just the first
21:59six months after the ban 129 were abandoned we quite clearly have a problem would you re-home that
22:08dog not knowing anything would you put your name to it because i wouldn't i'm worried about when i have
22:13to sit in front of a corridor and say i'm sorry i re-homed that dog because i felt sorry
22:17for it
22:17i'm sorry your daughter's lost an arm or been killed and that's the reality of this situation
22:25it's like a horror movie when you go to some of these jobs it's bad with an adult it's even
22:30harder
22:30with a kid for me i hate school holidays i hate half term i hate christmas because
22:40i dread the phone ringing because the bytes do increase when during the holiday period and half term
22:46and it's just horrendous the whole point of the ban was to keep the public safe
22:55right so you asking me is it working is that what we're getting to yeah okay did it protect the
23:00public 100 there must be people walking around today who haven't been attacked so i would say yes
23:07could it have been done better potentially could it have waited longer no i don't believe so was it the
23:13right decision to bring this ban in at the time yes it was because the numbers of dogs that were
23:19coming in and people that were being attacked was for me getting out of control
23:27seizing more dogs comes at a price was the cost of all of this underestimated uh hugely so if i
23:38go back
23:38to 2018 um our kenneling expenditure was about four million pounds the estimated cost for the first
23:45year of the ban coming in was 25 million it's a lot of money that's a lot of neighborhood place
23:51officers
23:52how are you going to keep bank rolling this we are just going to have to decide um and concentrate
23:59on threat harm and risk where there is you know a more of a risk to the public than those
24:03lower level
24:04cases that can't sit comfortably with you because you weren't just seizing dogs for the sake of it
24:10prior no we we weren't seizing dogs for the sake of it prior but we've had to adjust so because
24:16it's
24:17now costing 25 million and i suspect next year will be more and so on you're now having to make
24:25would the
24:26word compromises be fair um we we're changing in policing tact on how we accept and manage risk
24:36what i mean by that but i guess what i'm saying is you're not doing that by choice
24:42you are doing it because it's the only way you can afford to carry on there's the finance
24:48conversation is a finance conversation we'll have with government but we will continue to manage that
24:52manage that risk we are perhaps applying a slightly different element of risk tolerance we are perhaps
25:00looking at actually do i really need to seize this dog can it stay at home can i engage with
25:08the owner
25:08with some early diversion so there are other tools in our in our armory to effectively help us manage
25:16those types of cases in a statement defra the department which deals with dangerous dogs in
25:25england and wales says it's continuing to assess whether the current dog control rules are sufficient
25:32to ensure communities are protected it says the government must balance the views of those critical
25:39of the ban with its responsibility to ensure that the public is protected from dog attacks it says it
25:47will continue to monitor the operation of the ban back in shropshire marie and kayla want morgan's death
25:55to prompt major change they think the current legislation is too focused on the dog they want
26:03more focus on the owner to have a gun in your home you need to have a license you are
26:10then background
26:12checked you have to have character witnesses you they check that you've got a gun cabinet in your home
26:17where are these checks for these dogs where are they there's none you sign a visa baby you say i've
26:23got
26:23this dog it's at this address and then you're on your merry way nobody's checking on it morgan was
26:31a voice for change that's what she loved to make a change if you'd met her you'd never forget her
26:40and
26:43i think that goes for her name and her story too
26:50we can't just have her die for no reason something needs to happen from this
27:04while the legislation has divided opinion most agree on one thing responsible ownership has to
27:11play a key part in the way forward the problem with these dogs is this end of the lead not
27:18that
27:18end the problem is the person who's holding the dog and if they're irresponsible with it and you ban
27:23this breed what happens they just go out and get another one and they'll be just as irresponsible with
27:29that one what's the solution so the solution is we need better education of owners unfortunately
27:35anyone can go out and get any dog you can just go and get a dog but what we have
27:40is people who aren't
27:41educated to rear them responsibly and so they make really poor choices the dog becomes a product of
27:46that environment and then the dog too makes poor choices these dogs will be with us for generations to
27:52come and in particular in the short term i think we will continue to see dog attacks as these dogs
27:58start to come of age and and and reach and reach maturity so i think it's going to probably get
28:05worse
28:05before it gets better however the ban plays out attacks like these still continue in the two days
28:14after panorama filmed at the kennels staff say they were called to 39 separate dog attacks 17 of them
28:22involved xl bullies nine people were left with life-changing injuries
28:35for details of organizations which offer advice and support with some of the issues raised go online
28:42to the bbc action line website
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