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New rules for dog (including “Gassi law”)owners will apply from January 2022

The following new rules for dog owners in Germany have been adopted to guarantee that dogs are kept and breed more appropriately:

• Dogs are generally not allowed to live tethered
• Dogs with agony breeding traits are subject to the ban on exhibiting at all events at which an assessment, test or comparison of dogs takes place. Thus, incentives for such breeding should be removed
• The use of spiked collars and any painful means is prohibited in education, upbringing and training
• A breeder or a supervisor in professional dog breeding may not look after more than three litters at the same time
• The breeder must spend at least four hours a day with the puppies

What does “Gassi “mean in Germany?

The word “Gassi” means going for a walk which in 99 out of 100 cases is taking your dog for a walk. That is why the ordinance is sometimes referred to as the “Gassi law”

If you are learning German, you’ll often hear people say: “Ich gehe mit meinem Hund Gassi” … which simply means I’m going for a walk with my dog

Where does the term “Gassi” in Germany come from?

The origin is controversial. The most obvious thing would be to derive the term “Gassi” from the southern German term (Bavarian) for small street, “Gasse”. In the past, you simply stepped on them with your dog to let them do their business.

A somewhat more extensive attempt at explanation says that it is the short form of the Latin expression “gassatine” and that the students used to describe their nightly drinking tours . Gassatine is said to be derived from the Latin “grassari” – to hang around.