Keeping dangerous dogs Permission
A permit is required to keep a dangerous dog.
The Act on the Restriction of the Introduction or Import of Dangerous Dogs into Germany (HundVerbrEinfG) established a ban on the import and introduction of certain dog breeds at the federal level. These are dogs of the breeds:
- Pitbull Terrier,
- American Staffordshire Terrier,
- Staffordshire bull terrier,
- Bull terrier
- as well as their crosses with each other or with other dogs.
Dogs of other breeds as well as their crosses with each other or with other dogs, for which a danger is suspected according to the regulations of the country in which the dog is to be kept permanently, may not be imported or brought from abroad into this country according to § 2 HundVerbrEinfG.
Who should I contact?
The responsibility lies with the district, the independent city and the Hanover region.
Responsible authorities
Einheitsgemeinde Twist - Ordnungswesen
Contact
- Twist:
- Activity exempt from a travel trade card Admission of exemptions for the implementation of certain sales events
- Advertisement Change of person in the case of legal entities
- Advertisement of a restaurant
- Advertisement of non-profit and commercial waste collections
- Apply for a travel trade license
- Biowaste disposal
- Birth Indication
- Business re-registration
- Commercial keeping, breeding, display, use or trade of animals: Authorisation
- Deregister trade
- Entitlement to a place in a day-care centre
- Event: Display
- Examination eligibility certificate
- Exemption from the observance of the night's rest for events: granting
- Exemptions on Sundays and public holidays
- Findings from the background check Certificate
- Fishing License Exhibition
- Garden waste disposal
- Itinerant trade Granting of exemptions to prohibitions
- Keeping dangerous dogs Permission
- Keeping of farm animals - display
- Limited traffic zones
- Markets and festivals
- Obligations of waste disposal and recovery companies
- Obtain a certificate for carrying narcotics when traveling abroad
- Organization of a trade fair, exhibition or wholesale market: fixing
- Other games with the possibility of winning Permission in the traveling trade
- Other games with the possibility of winning: Permission
- Parking permit
- Permission for the commercial display of persons
- Permission to breed, keep and trade animals Issue for dogs
- Playground equipment with the possibility of winning Confirmation of the installation site
- Playground equipment with the possibility of winning permission
- Public holidays: approval - of exceptions to the general rest period
- Register a business
- Restaurant operation Approval early start of operations
- Setting a waste fee
- Show traveling trade or activity exempt from travel trade card
- Store opening hours
- Traditional bonfire (Easter fire)
- Vegetable waste disposal by incineration
- Waste disposal
- Wild garbage disposal
- Twist:
- Activity exempt from a travel trade card Admission of exemptions for the implementation of certain sales events
- Advertisement Change of person in the case of legal entities
- Advertisement of a restaurant
- Advertisement of non-profit and commercial waste collections
- Apply for a travel trade license
- Biowaste disposal
- Birth Indication
- Business re-registration
- Commercial keeping, breeding, display, use or trade of animals: Authorisation
- Deregister trade
- Entitlement to a place in a day-care centre
- Event: Display
- Examination eligibility certificate
- Exemption from the observance of the night's rest for events: granting
- Exemptions on Sundays and public holidays
- Findings from the background check Certificate
- Fishing License Exhibition
- Garden waste disposal
- Itinerant trade Granting of exemptions to prohibitions
- Keeping dangerous dogs Permission
- Keeping of farm animals - display
- Limited traffic zones
- Markets and festivals
- Obligations of waste disposal and recovery companies
- Obtain a certificate for carrying narcotics when traveling abroad
- Organization of a trade fair, exhibition or wholesale market: fixing
- Other games with the possibility of winning Permission in the traveling trade
- Other games with the possibility of winning: Permission
- Parking permit
- Permission for the commercial display of persons
- Permission to breed, keep and trade animals Issue for dogs
- Playground equipment with the possibility of winning Confirmation of the installation site
- Playground equipment with the possibility of winning permission
- Public holidays: approval - of exceptions to the general rest period
- Register a business
- Restaurant operation Approval early start of operations
- Setting a waste fee
- Show traveling trade or activity exempt from travel trade card
- Store opening hours
- Traditional bonfire (Easter fire)
- Vegetable waste disposal by incineration
- Waste disposal
- Wild garbage disposal
Requirements
- Character test
Which documents are required?
- Certificate of good conduct (document type "O") for submission to an authority
- Character test
- Proof of competence
What are the fees?
Fees apply, please contact the competent authority.
Process flow
As part of the approval procedure, the dog's ability to behave in a socially acceptable manner must be proven by means of a character test .
Muzzle and leash obligations or other requirements may also be imposed regardless of the determination of dangerousness or a permit.
What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?
Application Deadline: 3 Monthsfor the submission of the necessary documents
What else should I know?
In some municipalities, municipalities and cities, a higher dog tax is levied for dangerous dogs. The basis for this is the respective dog tax statute.
Some municipalities, municipalities and cities have separate municipal regulations for walking dogs in public, on playgrounds, etc.