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  • The owner of the dog that attacked mine told the Police it was a Staffie Mongrel cross not a breed, so banning breeds won’t work.
    Someone will produce a Great Dane Staffie cross, treat it horribly and it wouldn’t be a banned breed.

  • The owner of the dog that attacked mine told the Police it was a Staffie Mongrel cross not a breed, so banning breeds won’t work

    You see it with shelters in the US all the time, they list dogs as Lab crosses and the like when they're just pure pitbulls because most home insurance companies don't allow them. It needs proper DNA testing not the current BSL style of looking at head size/shape.

  • It needs proper DNA testing

    Presumably breeders will get themselves some DNA tests and select for the ones that don't have whatever gene is banned if you go for that approach.

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