Actually, Venus Flytraps can make it fine without having dormacy for eight months. And to back it up I currently have three plants that I bought in the end of fall for winter growing and it's still outside making almost 1 inch traps right now... Many other people just give them dormacy every other year, like how Dean does sometimes. The main thing is to fool them and not give them cold weather and they'll still grow fine for a few more months. So, I have to agree with PlantaKiss on this one... Starman, I remember a year back when I was just like you I spent hours just researching about these plants and every little info that was printed on the website I though was right, and preeched it to. Well, after a while the plants started to decline, and ALOT of my plants died by following everyones EXACT conditions so I just experimented. It took a while, but now I tweeked most of my conditions to suit my area.
Like for example, some who lives in Louisiana only gives their plants only four or six hours of direct sunlight aday, since their postion on the earth makes the sunlight alot stronger then say here in Michigan I give all my plants twelve or even more hours of direct sunlight. That just goes to show you that someones growing conditions doesn't exactly match your... So even Peter D'amato's growing conditions wouldn't give you the best growing condtions either. (This rule applies to outdoor plants, Neps and other terrainium plants are a different story)