My daughter was bitten by an XL bully. I met an owner to ask why they’d have one

A year ago, seven-year-old Lydia was walking to post a letter with her dad when she was savagely attacked by an XL bully that had escaped from a neighbour’s garden.
Matt says the day turned to horror in an instant, telling us he first saw the escaped dog out of the corner of his eye and within seconds it was “attached” to his daughter’s arm, biting her three or four times. He says the dog kept lunging for Lydia and in a frantic effort to stop it mauling his daughter, he had to “lie on top of it”.
“It was remarkably strong,” says Matt. He remembers Lydia’s screams and seeing blood coming from her wounds, not knowing if her life was in danger.
Lydia ended up in hospital but her dad says it could have been much worse: “I could be dealing with the fact that she’s not with me and she’s been killed. That kept me awake at night.”
He says the weeks immediately after the attack were tough for the family. Lydia would scream every time her bandages needed to be changed and on one occasion she jumped into Matt’s arms when a dog approached them in the park.

Courtesy: BBC