Two weeks ago, Josephine Smith brought home a puppy called Arthur, wearing a blue bow-tie collar, to join her two spaniels in the Yorkshire Dales.
Photographs show the nine-week-old rescue pup sandwiched between a much larger springer called Rowan and a cocker called Finn. Yet Arthur will soon outgrow them both because he is an American XL bully, a dog which is banned in England and Wales from Sunday under the Dangerous Dogs Act.
After a spate of fatal attacks by XL bullies, it is illegal to rehome, sell, buy, abandon or give them away, including for rescue charities. People who already own the breed must keep them muzzled and on a lead at all times in public, including when inside a car. The dogs
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