Sickening footage shows XL Bully savaging a small dog as its owner struggles to get it under control when it breaks out of its collar
Sickening footage shows XL Bully killing a small dog as its owner struggles to control him as he breaks out of his collar
This is the horrific moment a small dog was grabbed by the neck during a savage attack by an XL Bully.
Terrifying footage shows the XL Bully charging at the small white dog before sinking its teeth into his neck and grabbing him in Maghull, Merseyside on Sunday.
The small dog’s owner desperately tries to free his pup, while a man in a blue t-shirt helps by hitting the XL Bully with dust.
A witness said the owner of the XL Bully told the small dog’s owner, “Lift your dog up because I can’t control her,” before the vicious animal slipped out of his collar.
This is the horrific moment a small dog is grabbed by the neck during a savage attack by an XL Bully
Terrifying footage shows the XL Bully charging at the small white dog before sinking its teeth into his neck and grabbing him
Merseyside Police were called at around 4.45pm on Sunday to reports that a dog had been attacked by another dog on Old Hall Road, Maghull.
The owner of the small dog can be seen hitting the XL Bully in an attempt to free his pet. The XL Bully had to be picked from the smaller dog by the public.
Police officers confirmed that the small dog was taken to a vet for a check-up and that the owner of the XL Bully was spoken to by police.
Footage of the attack surfaced on social media, where people expressed anger that the XL Bully was off-leash.
One person said: ‘Why isn’t the dog on a leash? This is what I don’t understand.’ The person who posted the video made it clear that the dog had escaped.
A spokesperson for Merseyside Police said: ‘We can confirm that yesterday, Sunday 10 September, we received a report that a dog had attacked another dog in Maghull.
‘Around 4.45pm it was reported that a dog, believed to be an XL bully, had been walking on Old Hall Road when it slipped out of its collar and ran away from its male owner.’
The spokesperson added: ‘He then bit another dog before the owner and a member of the public managed to separate them.
‘The attacked dog was taken to a vet for a check-up. The owner of the XL bully has been spoken to by officers.
The owner of the XL Bully can be seen hitting his dog with the leash, the animal escaped before running towards the smaller pup
The owner of the small dog can be seen hitting the XL Bully in an attempt to free his pet
‘Our investigation into the incident is ongoing and if you have any information please DM us on Twitter @MerPolCC or on Facebook Merseyside Police Contact Center, quoting log 23000864364.’
Earlier today it was revealed that a man was arrested on suspicion of possessing a dangerously out-of-control dog after an 11-year-old girl was mauled by an American XL Bully.
West Midlands Police said they had arrested a 60-year-old man following the incident last weekend, which also left two men injured.
The American XL Bully and Staffordshire bull terrier cross puppy escaped from its collar in Bordesley Green in Birmingham on Saturday afternoon, devastating Ana Paun, 11, as she walked home after buying sweets with her sister.
Police said two men who tried to lure the dog away from Ana were also attacked and injured as the horrors unfolded along a busy street and petrol station forecourt.
There was also another incident today involving two American Bully XL dogs breaking into a garden and brutally beating a cat to death.
The two beasts were caught on Ring doorbell footage in the middle of the night as they burst into the front garden of a house in Hounslow, West London.
The animals started chasing one cat, which managed to dart into a bush and escape. But a second cat wasn’t so lucky as it was pinned to the ground by the snarling dogs, who tore into the screaming feline and killed it.
The attack was the latest in a series of incidents in the London suburb that have terrified the community – and comes amid mounting pressure to ban the ‘deadly’ XL Bully breed in Britain.