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Britain has a growing problem with dangerous dogs

Bully XLs have killed eight people since 2021

A Bully sits for its owner while competing in Champs Camp by UK Bully Kennel club
Who’s a good boy?Image: Chris Knight
|BREASTON, DERBYSHIRE 

“THESE DOGS are my therapy,” says Darren Egan, a 12-year-old dog handler, as he straddles Indie, his 44-kilo American Bully pup. “I trust them.” Darren and his dad, Michael, have driven 17 hours from Ireland to compete in Champs Camp, a dog show run this month by the UK Bully Kennel Club. The event, in a Derbyshire field by the M1, brings together lovers of the Bully, a controversial breed known for its strength and propensity to attack. Darren admits his mother worries and calls the dogs “very vicious.”

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