The XL Bully is a monster created by the internet

An 11-year-old girl was attacked by a large dog in Birmingham on 9 September .

The XL Bully is a variant of the American pit bull, originally bred by illegal fighting rings in the US .

Home Secretary Suella Braverman tweeted that she had “commissioned urgent advice” on adding the breed to the list of banned breeds.

Three quarters of all killings by dogs in the past three years were caused by the same breed.

Many XL Bullies are not even housed by their real owners but “co-owned” by people who take a cut of the proceeds.

Failure to understand the real economy of the XL Bully may explain the political failure to regulate and control the spread of these animals.