As new research suggests that dogs’ brains are being and as the UK Government prepares to , some people are questioning if certain Bully XL breeders have selected on qualities that made the dogs more likely to kill than other breeds.
So we ask you, our readers, to weigh in on the debate: should we accept that some dogs are ‘born to be bad’?
Some says that breeding for aggression from specific bloodlines plays a role in increasing aggression within a certain breed population, with dogs genetically predisposed to it. Others don’t think there is proof enough of this having happened, and that the it may be a case of self-fulfilling prophecy – someone who buys a pup specifically from a bloodline said to be aggressive will train that pup for aggression.