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AWESOME! I am so so happy, but would love to know more about this test. Please keep us posted! Sevi and the rest of the crew :)               http://www.cybercanine.com           "Because you love your canine…"     handcrafted all-natural canine products Our canine biscuits and treats are baked with wholesome ingredients and are always preservative free! Hand-blended aromatherapy dog shampoos, mists, candles, potpourri and ointments using therapeutic essential oils, organic herbs and infused oils. Visit our forum at http://www.delphi.com/NaturalDog

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Yes I too would be interested in the tests as the test I heard about was 3 hours long, videotaped and cost about $500 which would be close to 1000 American pretty serious money if anyone has more than one dog Nancy

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> AWESOME! I am so so happy, but would love to know more about this test. > Please keep us posted! > Sevi and the rest of the crew :) >               http://www.cybercanine.com >           "Because you love your canine…" >     handcrafted all-natural canine products > Our canine biscuits and treats are baked with wholesome ingredients and are > always preservative free! Hand-blended aromatherapy dog shampoos, mists, > candles, potpourri and ointments using therapeutic essential oils, organic > herbs and infused oils. > Visit our forum at http://www.delphi.com/NaturalDog

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> Yes I too would be interested in the tests as the test I heard about was 3 > hours long, videotaped and cost about $500 which would be close to 1000 > American > pretty serious money if anyone has more than one dog

That was my understanding, too, based on the 1st of the local bans, Hamburg.  It is important to note that Hessen is that latest of the local laws, and the worst.  They’ve already started killing dogs under the Hessen law, which was just passed this week.  It makes sense that Hessen would adopt the VDH test that is already in place in other locations, but nobody should interpret this as meaning the dogs are now safe. Lynn K.

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>Dear friends from the States, Australia, Canada, England and from all >over the world – WE MADE IT !!! OUR DOGS ARE FREE !!!!

*clapping* cheering * whistling * barking * howling * other celebratory sound effects as desired! * That was FAST.  I think I’m impressed;  politicians don’t readily back down, even when it’s obvious they’re wrong. And the important thing is the dogs are going to be okay! I don’t have any source of details other than usenet (I don’t have TV, the newspapers could care less, internet news sources I’m not finding somehow, and I know several Germans but they’re not up to date on what’s happening "back home" either).  Here I read that many dogs had been killed already, in Hamburg.  Do we know what the situation is there?  And what about the dog-owners? One step at a time, I know, and count me in as one of those having a par-tay (with my own dogs) in celebration of this step in the right direction! ….new email (same old waterbed)

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LynnK writes:

:but nobody should interpret this as meaning the :dogs are now safe. Exactly. That post has been making the rounds of the Pit Bull and anti-BSL lists, and it doesn’t even BEGIN to suggest any real turn-around. JohnR Pit Bull Libertarian Never sneer at the power of a little pink squeaky toy!

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Hi All, A friend from Slovenia forwarded this to a list I’m on. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Dear friends from the States, Australia, Canada, England and from all over the world – WE MADE IT !!! OUR DOGS ARE FREE !!!! We were working here night and day, collecting everything, writing…. and at night I got a message that said: The Minister of the Interior of Hessen will CHANGE THE LAW (so it was a 1day law:-)) Dogs who are living in families, have to do a test. If they stand this test, they can live with their families. We don’t know exactly what is part of the charactertest, but the dogs will be tested by dogpeople of our VDH, who know dogs (and not by politicans, who know nothing). So we are in good hope that every family dog will stand it. The dogs have to be on leads and with a muzzle – but THEY WILL LIVE. I didn’t want to write it to you this night because it wasn’t official (and it was said such a lot of things the last days..) and I didn’t trust the message. but now it is official. The minister break down under the avalanche of protests – our VDH (like your AKC), the veterinarians, special groups to save the dogs and lots, lots, lots of normal dogowners… But I am sure – WITHOUT YOU AND YOUR PROTESTS he wouldn’t have changed it so fast. The german openion is not so interesting for the politicans – voices from all over the world are!! I can’t say what I feel and I CAN’T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR YOUR KIND HELP!!! Our dogs are in danger still in the city of Hamburg – but I’m sure, the senator of Hamburg has to break down too with his ideas to kill the dogs. The fight goes on – we are fighting now against the law, that the dogs have to been muzzled all the time on the streets. No dog with a muzzle can have a social life – we are in good hope, that we will win this point too. The first region with this rule (Nordrhein – Westfalen; the region surrounding D