Dog owner attacked after 'XL Bully' tried to mate with her cockapoos

A dog owner from has spoken of her terror after an 'XL Bully' left her with a number of injuries. Julia Critchley was walking in Accrington with her two small cockapoos at around 12.30pm, during a lunch break from work.

During her usual walk, Julia was walking towards the cemetery in Accrington and noticed a man standing with a dog on Whitewell Drive. However, after passing the man and faintly hearing the words "be careful", it was already too late for Julia.

Talking to LancsLive about the ordeal, she despite the warning it was too late to react. "Literally, the next minute, this huge dog came charging over to me and was all over my girls. There was a man walking, I asked is this your dog? It wasn't and he carried on walking, he didn't help," she said.

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"There was a man on the opposite corner of Balmoral Road and he looked down but walked in and he would have heard me screaming but would have just thought I was walking the dogs at this stage. The next minute, it was trying to impregnate my two little babies, they're only eight kilograms but just from a different litter," she said.

Julia recalls not being able to get away, with the large dog continuously jumping up and intimidating her and her two dogs. She believes the dog could have been an XL Bully - a breed which carries strict rules on ownership after a number of fatal attacks across the country.

"For the next 10 to 15 minutes, I was getting hold of my dogs and throwing them over the wall," Julia added. "It jumped over there and tried to mate with both of them."

"I got them back over the other side and I didn't lash out, I just tried to sort of tap it to get away but I was scared. My friend a year