Gone are the days when the Republic made fun of the Hessian Abi: In the PISA table, our beautiful state may be in the middle of the field - when it comes to training our four-legged friends, we're right at the top.

According to a survey exclusively available to the FAZ and around 267 other press organs, Frankfurt occupies second place in the Germany-wide ranking of cities with the best dog schools.

Wau, uh, wow, you want to exclaim!

Matthew Trautsch

Coordination report Rhein-Main.

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The fact that the spaetzle metropolis Stuttgart is still ahead of us is of course unjustified.

It is quite obviously a concession to the notorious Swabia-Prussia connection.

The dog school evaluation comes from the PR agency Tonka, which specializes in absurd city rankings.

It is based in Berlin and is - as we assume without any facts, but firmly convinced - as interspersed with immigrants from Württemberg as anything else in Schwabylon on the Spree.

But we don't want to be petty in the hour of success.

After all, we wouldn't have come up with the obvious idea of ​​putting together a Germany-wide table of dog school cities.

The company Santé Vet should therefore also be given a special mention: The ranking is thanks to the “European specialist for animal health insurance” – as Tonka introduces him to us.

On his behalf, the Google ratings of the dog schools in the 20 largest cities in Germany were analyzed.

Manners from 143 euros

With an average rating of 4.88 Google stars, the state capital of Baden-Württemberg is at the top, followed by Frankfurt with 4.86 stars and Dresden with 4.82 stars.

However, mistresses and masters also have to pay the most in Dresden: an average of 314.67 euros for puppies and 298.57 euros for adult dogs per ten hours of training.

The nationwide average is 203.90 euros or 202.02 euros.

Dog training is the cheapest in the Ruhr area: in Essen you can teach your puppies manners for 143 euros.

By the way, dear letter-to-the-editor: We don't want to hear any academic complaints about the meaningfulness of the survey.

That doesn't interest our Bavarian friends either, if they come out on top again in PISA.