German state of Bavaria intends to put the Rottweiler on breed specific ban list

[Thomas Peuschel]

Dear all,

with a press release at end of june the bavarian state sectretary, Günter Beckstein, announced that from August 1. more dog breeds - within them the Rottweiler - will be put onto the bavarian ban list. Everybody who wants to keep his Rottweiler has to pass a specific and expensive examination together with his dog. Already done BH and/or SchH trial results will not been accepted.

ADRK-members and other Rottweiler-Owners from Bavaria and total Germany have started an immediate letter-campaign writing personal letters to our prime Minister, the state secretary and the secretary for consumers protection (the decision makers = state vet´s are in his office) with the first positive results:

the final decision has been postponed to end of September earliest, after new investigations will have done.

They also promised a meeting between the state vet´s and ADRK-Bavaria members, mainly Anton Spindler/ADRK-Judge, Dieter Haspel/ADRK-judge, Hansjörg H.Teichmann/public affairs Bavaria-south and myself/public affairs Bavaria-north.

On saturday last weekend we had an Info-center built up directly in front of the city-hall of munic, the capital of the state of bavaria with a very good resonance of the visitors. Not one of our dogs was even barking the whole day!

We now do feel that it is the time to show our main politicians in Bavaria, that the Rottweiler is not only popular in germany, the Rottweiler has his friends all over the world.

We ask you for your help by sending some Emails to our leading politicians, expressing:

your concerns with the planned legal situation for Rottweilers - one of the oldest German working dog breeds - in Bavaria

that you are a responsible Rottweiler-owner, living in (please mention your country and city)and that you are carefully watching what is going up with Rottweiler´s in their country of origin

that the official german Rottweilerclub, the ADRK, has a very good reputation in your country concerning breeding an education of Rottweilers.

These emails should be sent to the following adresses:

State secretary Dr.Guenther Beckstein

poststelle@stmi.bayern.de

Secretary for consumers protection, Mr. Sinner

poststelle@stmgev.bayern.de

and for our prime minister, Dr. Edmund Stoiber, the following link will lead directly to a special email form which can be filled in:

http://www.bayern.de/Service/brief.h...sterpraesident

Explanation of the German terms in this form:

Absender: please fill in your Name here
Strasse: your street
PLZ: your post zip code
Ort: your cities name
Tel.Nr. your phone number
Betreff: the condern of the mail message
Text: fill in your text

With the send button you can send the message to our prime minster.
Most astonishing he will read his mails, some us have received answers already!

It is our experience, that polite and individual written letters and mails will be read and do have a positive influence in the clearification process at the involved offices.

Pleas helo us showing our politicians, that the Rottweilers is a well-known breed all over the world and that he is a positive image-maker for germany.

Best Rotti-Regards

Thomas Peuschel
ADRK Public Affairs
Bavaria-North

P.S: If possible mail a copy to my attention peuschel@zant-rottweiler.de