Police spending on kennels and veterinary bills in England and Wales has more than tripled since the XL bully ban came into force, with some forces recording an almost 500% spending increase since the new law was enacted in 2024.
There's a simple answer, and it’s ‘when you rock up to an attack, shoot the mutts then and there!’ You don’t need a live dog to determine the breed, a dead one will do just fine.
West Mercia police reported the biggest increase, with annual costs rising from £92,383 in 2022-23 to £715,349 in 2025-26, a 674% increase.
Wales again? What is it with that place?
John Campion, the Conservative police and crime commissioner for the area, said: “Policing is already stretched, and rising costs and growing demand are pushing resources to the limit. The added burden, created by the government and public, of paying for kennelling illegal dogs places even more pressure on already tight budgets.“Kennelling is essential for public safety, but without proper government support these costs risk impacting frontline services.”
No, what’s essential for public safety is the removal of the danger, and that can just as easily be in a garbage bag as in a dog van. It should be already be SOP for any incident where a person or pet has been killed by these things.
Patrick O’Hara, the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) tactical lead on dangerous dogs, said he had “not known this type of demand in my 26 years’ service”. “Our kennelling needs have gone up by about one-third since the ban came into force and the demand isn’t slowing down so we’re having to really concentrate on threat, harm and risk,” he told the BBC. “In the short term I think we will continue to see dog attacks as these dogs start to come of age and reach maturity. So I think it’s going to probably get worse before it gets better.”
Or maybe you’ll only have to shoot one or two to get the rest of owners to comply?
“It does seem like the dogs being kennelled are the dogs which are more dangerous, but it is obviously the case that they’re stuck in kennels and we don’t want that from a dog welfare perspective, and it’s also something that’s sad from an owner perspective,” said Benedict Treloar, co-founder of the Campaign for Evidence-Based Regulation of Dangerous Dogs (CEBRDD).
Why is the welfare of mutts that have killed people and pets even a factor in your deliberations? There are other agebcies to worry about that:
The RSPCA, which did not support the XL bully ban, wants to see compulsory recording of dog bite incidents to help understand the scale of the problem and its causes, with a greater focus on education and prevention, rather than seizing animals.
Yes, they really are suggesting that killer animals be left with the useless owners. Another reason not to give them any money, as if one was needed.
2 comments:
There type of dogs have been getting older and reaching maturity for a very long time but we didn't have this number of attacks.
It's because they are now banned and those with them are people looking for a status symbol and not people looking the train or control them.
Plus you can't just turn up and waste them unless they are actively attacking someone/thing. If they shot something that was doing nothing, wasn't involved and turns out to not be banned then they will get sued.
It's just another government screw up that costs us money and Wales is particularly ban because they always have been lefties.
imo : You can have any do you want but if it goes crazy, you as the owner go to jail and can never own another one and the dog is destroyed.
Two possible suggestions:
1. Charge the dog's owner for the cost of kennelling.
2. Don't stop at shooting the dog.
Penseivat
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