Dangerous Dogs

(asked on 7th December 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will extend the neutering deadline for exempted XL bully dogs that are under seven months on 31st January 2024 to 30 June 2025.


Answered by
Mark Spencer Portrait
Mark Spencer
Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 13th December 2023

Owners of XL Bully type dogs who want to keep their dogs after the end of the transition period should apply to Defra for a Certificate of Exemption before the 31 January. Owners must arrange for their dogs to be neutered by set deadlines for this Certificate to remain valid. We took the health and welfare implications of neutering at a young age into account and therefore set a neutering deadline of 31 December 2024 for dogs that are aged less than one year old on the 31 January 2024.

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