Home office, short-time work and exit restrictions reduce social contacts to a minimum.
That can make you very lonely.
Reason enough for many Munich residents to buy a dog.
According to information from the city, the number of fur nose registrations has tripled since Corona.
Munich
-
Munich is
growing and that doesn't just apply to two-legged people.
The number of Zamperl in the Isar metropolis has been increasing for years.
The city treasury
, which also
collects
the dog tax, recorded
40,543 registered
dogs
at the end of 2020. A year earlier it was 37,623.
An increase of around 3,000 woofies within twelve months.
Before that there was an average of around 1,000 new registrations per year.
Strangely enough, only 300 from 2018 to 2019. The reason why so many people from Munich came to the dog in 2020 is obvious:
Corona
!
Munich: Dogs as a means against the corona blues are increasingly in demand
The associated with the Corona pandemic
curfews
, closure of gyms, swimming pools, cultural institutions, as well as reduced working hours and
home office
have caused a minimization of interpersonal contacts.
The consequences are lack of exercise, misery and loneliness.
Conditions that affect many people, really pull you down.
In order to escape from this, company is necessary and that is what a
dog
offers
.
So bring on the loyal four-legged friends.
With the English Garden and the Isar floodplains,
Munich in
particular
offers good arguments for keeping dogs in the city.
As the Münchner
Abendzeitung
reports, the Tierschutzbrücke - an association for the rescue and placement of Romanian street dogs - were almost torn from the hands of puppies and young dogs.
Even among breeders, the demand is currently huge and the waiting lists for a pedigree dog are long, according to the
AZ
.
The
dog
as a substitute for friends, partners, children.
This also fits a study published by the statistical office of the state capital
Munich
, which says that dogs in Munich are increasingly given human names by their owners.
Leo, Bruno, Hugo as well as Lily, Bella and Emma are very high on the popularity scale.
Dog boom in Munich during the corona pandemic with many downsides
However
, some animal rights activists are critical of the
fact that many Munich
residents discovered
their heart for
dogs
during the
corona
pandemic, of all places.
The high demand is fueling dog breeding by “Hinz and Kunz”, as Marianne Ruß from the Bavarian State Association for Dogs (VDH) told
AZ
.
Dog love can also be expensive and everyday life with a dog exhausting.
Especially if it doesn't turn out to be easy to care for.
Then rulers and mistresses need educational help from a dog school, but these were
closed
in
Bavaria
during the
lockdown
.
It
should be clear to everyone
that a
dog is
not an object that can be used for entertainment at will and then left behind again.
Unfortunately, man's “best friend” is still all too often carelessly acquired and abandoned without further ado.
Like the mixed breed dog “Fly”, who was left behind in Westpark, presumably because the bitch's hip dysplasia became too annoying for its owners.
The
Munich animal shelter
expects that many dogs will be returned to them as soon as people are back to work in the company or travel and going out is possible again.
