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She’s started a business making clothes for customers from the fur of their pet dogs. But 50-year-old Bettina Menkhoff, a primary school teacher who lives in Stoetze in the Lüneberger Heide with four such four-footed friends, decided that all that lovely fur shouldn’t go to waste. Her Internet business now attracts customers from across the country, all putting a stylish new spin on the proverbial hair shirt. European lawmakers moved Tuesday to keep Fluffy and Fido out of clothing and stuffed kids’ toys by prohibiting the trade in cat and dog fur after a voluntary ban was found to be ineffective. Nearly as closely connected with Germany as beer and sausages, the dachshund is a national emblem on the decline, but experts say there is hardly a danger of the “sausage dog” being woofed out soon. read more…

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