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In the last few years, a “positive list” for keeping pets has already been introduced in the Netherlands, Belgium and France. In Germany, German agriculture minister Cem Özdemir has made it known in an interview that he is intending to do the same, a move which has attracted a lot of public criticism.
Norbert Holthenrich, president of the Zentralverband Zoologischer Fachbetriebe (ZZF), the association representing German pet product retailers, considers the initiative by Özdemir to be wrong “A positive list for keeping pets is nothing other than a basic prohibition on pet owning.” Other associations representing the pet sector, such as the German Society for Herpetology and Herpetoculture and the Bundesverband für fachgerechten Natur-, Tier- und Artenschutz (German Federal Association for Professional Conservation and Protection of Species, BNA) also reject the minister’s proposals.
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