Volunteer petter: Tender hands take care of wild-born cats. Elisabeth Stempniak looks after the velvet paws in the animal station with a lot of empathy.

She calls it “volunteer cat petter” herself and knows that some people make fun of her for it. But not from the Animal Friends team and chairwoman Andrea Mittermeir. Some of the cats that come to us are wildborn. They have to get used to people first.