A SCOTTISH pensioner has been left seriously injured and hospitalised after an XL bully dog attack.
The Press & Journal reports that a man in his 70s was attacked as he visited a relative's XL bully dog while the relative was on holiday.
It is reported that the elderly man remains in hospital with serious injuries to his arms, hands and face.
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A Scottish Ambulance Service spokesman said it was called to an address in Corrennie Circle, Dyce, on Wednesday.
They said crew “transported a male patient in his 70s to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary”.
It comes after it was announced on Thursday that owners of XL bully dogs in Scotland will be subject to new safeguards as the Scottish Government replicates UK legislation.
Community safety minister Siobhian Brown said the move is “right and proper” amid concern over an influx of dogs being abandoned in Scotland.
The first phase of the regulations will make it an offence to sell, abandon, give away or breed an XL bully in Scotland.
A date for when the rules will officially be imposed has yet to be confirmed, however, owners wishing to keep their dogs will also need to keep the XL bully on a lead and muzzled in public.
The second phase will see owners able to apply for their dogs to be added to an exemption index to keep them.
Owners wishing to keep their XL bully will have to pay an unconfirmed fee – £92.40 in England and Wales – to register the pet.
But compensation will be payable to owners who no longer wish to keep their pet, including reimbursement for euthanasia.
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