The breed has been linked with several dog attacks in recent months but one owner says the American bully XL is being wrongfully demonised.
But Dave Fakhr, who owns a four-year-old American bully XL called Tex, told Sky News that responsibility lies with dog owners.
"It's not fair that the dogs are labelled as something because of the people that own them," he said. "The dogs have done nothing wrong, a lot of the time the dogs in these cases have actually had a bad life being brought up."Mr Fakhr says people who become dog owners for the first time should avoid getting an American bully XL."They're a big, strong breed. Every dog has the capability of aggression, they're an animal. We have the capability of aggression.
"And if not trained properly and not brought up right then the dogs can be aggressive, which doesn't mean that the breed is aggressive." While the legislation around dog ownership needs to be tougher, according to Mr Fakhr, an outright ban would eventually"get rid of all big dogs"."Whatever you do with this breed, whether it's ban it or not ban it, the problem's not going to go away.Image:
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