We can only hope that this foolish obsession ends before more lives are lost.Play fantasy baseball & daily contests. We are now flaunting the hideous haunches and drooling mouth of the grotesque Bully – and I can’t help but wonder if some people are too dimwitted to differentiate between the trend for big muscles in men and what they want, or should have, in a dog. Rawlinson warned that they will savage more and more people as time goes on, and that they could kill you in under a minute. They are, in the words of Stan Rawlinson, a dog behaviourist, “very, very reactive”. The brutes have reportedly been involved in the majority of fatal dog attacks in the UK since 2021. It seems to speak to a creeping admiration for violence and vulgar shows of power.Īnd the Bully XL’s victims have paid an awful price. Quite why anyone would want a dog with a name like that is beyond me. And, as was inevitable, it has produced monsters.īehold the creation, apparently through genetic enhancement, of the breed known as the Bully XL – made in America (where else?).

“I miss my dog so much.” Right then.īut with this bizarre displacement of human attachments – perhaps understandable in a hopelessly confusing, alienating age – onto four-legged creatures, a terrible mixture of fetishism on one hand and anthropomorphism on the other has taken hold. “I’m ready to go home now,” I overheard an American woman tell her friend recently at a resort on a beautiful Austrian lake. It is now commonplace for me to overhear perfectly sane adults talking about a beloved child and their daily ups and downs only to find out they are, in fact, talking about their pooch. Anglo-American dog love is completely out of control.

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