![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/dark-cult-of-american-xl-bullies-on-sale-for-6k/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1_JS304708154-copy.jpg&description=The Mirror takes a look at the sinister world of dodgy dog breeding as bully-type puppies are being poorly bred and kept in a semi-comatose state trapped in darkness, trained on treadmills and forced to fight for social media Extreme dog breeding is big business and profit-driven breeders are continuing to put their wealth over animal welfare in order to cash in - with dodgy dealers earning up to £250k salaries. Devastatingly, this often means mating and selling untrained crossbreeds that have the power to kill after putting them through their paces with treadmill training and leaving them alone in dark rooms. When not looked after properly, these poorly bred yet powerful dogs can attack other pets and people, as we've increasingly seen in recent times. Of the 10 fatal dog attacks in the UK last year, more than half of them involved the controversial American XL bully. It seems a cult has formed around bull breeds online, with an increasingly close relationship highlighted between organised crime and dog dealing. Careless and uneducated dealers are breeding dangerous dogs, and little is being done about it. With American XL bullies making headlines after another viciously attacked an 11-year-old girl last weekend, and Home Secretary Suella Braverman pushing for an urgent ban on what looks like an uncontrollable breed, the Mirror takes a look into the depraved and dark world of dangerous backyard breeders - from training puppies on treadmills to forcing them to fight against each other. Last year, a Mirror investigation found that new dog dealers were being encouraged to make "monsters" out of powerful dogs to earn up to £250,000. The RSPCA said it had seen animals kept in "medieval" conditions, with "breeding bitches kept in darkness or living in their own faeces" by money-grabbing breeders, making hundreds and thousands of pounds. The dog breeding craze, which erupted during the pandemic, has caused the "perfect storm for dog bites". It prompted the arrival of pet){kind=link}
The Mirror takes a look at the sinister world of dodgy dog breeding as bully-type puppies are being poorly bred and kept in a semi-comatose state trapped in darkness, trained on treadmills and forced to fight for social media
Extreme dog breeding is big business and profit-driven breeders are continuing to put their wealth over animal welfare in order to cash in – with dodgy dealers earning up to £250k salaries. Devastatingly, this often means mating and selling untrained crossbreeds that have the power to kill after putting them through their paces with treadmill training and leaving them alone in dark rooms.
When not looked after properly, these poorly bred yet powerful dogs can attack other pets and people, as we’ve increasingly seen in recent times. Of the 10 fatal dog attacks in the UK last year, more than half of them involved the controversial American XL bully.
It seems a cult has formed around bull breeds online, with an increasingly close relationship highlighted between organised crime and dog dealing. Careless and uneducated dealers are breeding dangerous dogs, and little is being done about it.
With American XL bullies making headlines after another viciously attacked an 11-year-old girl last weekend, and Home Secretary Suella Braverman pushing for an urgent ban on what looks like an uncontrollable breed, the Mirror takes a look into the depraved and dark world of dangerous backyard breeders – from training puppies on treadmills to forcing them to fight against each other.