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From 31 December 2023 breeding, selling, advertising, rehoming, abandoning and allowing an XL Bully dog to stray will be illegal.
How enforcement officers can apply the conformation standard to check if a dog is an XL Bully.
The rules you must follow if you own an XL Bully dog in England and Wales.
It is now illegal to breed, sell, advertise, gift, exchange, and abandon these dogs or let them stray.
UK Chief Vet urges owners to take all necessary steps to ensure they are complying with the law
Numbers of dogs on the Index of Exempted Dogs.
The amount it costs to place a banned type of dog on the Index of Exempted Dogs is increasing from the 1st July 2013.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
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