The Nuremberg animal shelter is threatened by callers after the admission of 101 puppies from an illegal transport.
Now the employees are fighting against it.
Nuremberg - After officers from the Nuremberg East Police Station were recently able to stop an illegal animal transport with 101 puppies, the Nuremberg animal shelter took in all dogs.
The staff at the animal shelter were initially happy about the encouragement from many people, including numerous donations - until the flood of calls took a different turn.
“Why are you trying to blackmail us?” The animal shelter asks the annoying prospects in a Facebook post.
And: "Why are you threatening us with writing bad reviews on the Internet, just because you won't get a puppy right now and we won't make a reservation or answer any questions?"
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spoke to the director of the animal shelter, Tanja Schnabel.
The woman from Nuremberg explains the background to the angry reaction and struggles for people to understand and be more patient.
The core problem: "People only think of themselves and how they can get a dog as soon as possible, the situation of the puppies is completely irrelevant to many." whether the original owner was still entitled to the animals.
Nuremberg: Animal shelter employees have to look after puppies in quarantine, work overtime and are threatened
"According to the regulations, puppies may only be imported into Germany if they have been vaccinated against rabies twelve weeks after birth and then have entered a three-week quarantine," explains Schnabel.
The animals picked up during the transport were indeed 15 weeks old on paper and vaccinated - but actually "across the board between six and eleven weeks old".
Even within Germany, puppies under eight weeks of age should never be separated from their mother, let alone transported.
The puppies now in the Nuremberg animal shelter are currently in their three-week rabies quarantine.
“During this time, our workforce works a lot of overtime,” says the manager.
Employees who have already retired have jumped in as well as some who actually have vacation.
And yet: “The phone is no longer standing still.” Over 100 calls are received at the animal shelter every day - despite multiple requests not to do so.
At the end of the line there are more and more people who “absolutely want to have a puppy from the transport now or to reserve a puppy”.
Nuremberg animal shelter: threats on the phone “poor” - the puppies lack time on the phone
"If you explain to these people that we are working to the limit and that such calls are not only unnecessary but also slow down enormously, some people threaten with bad reviews on the Internet." finally also the puppy.
“And we employees turn the wheel and have to deal with something like that.” She currently doesn't have the time to be interested in who would like to have which puppy when - “At the moment it's primarily about getting the animals through”.
The animal shelter's first post on Facebook has now garnered over 4,000 likes and almost 1,000 comments.
In a second post, Schnabel and her team thank the encouragement from the sometimes understanding users: “We really give everything, but we still need a few nerves.
We'll carry on - for the puppies and you dear people. ”You can also find technical expertise in the comments:“ People don't even know what it means to get a transport puppy, ”writes one user.
He claims that he had already spent 25,000 euros on operations eight years ago for his two dogs from a transport and warned against breeding without considering hereditary diseases.
Another user writes: “It's unbelievable how stupid some people are.” Puppies need rest and time, have to be in quarantine or are sick - he is asking for understanding for all of this.
Animal transports are picked up again and again.
Recently, a transport that was stopped at Markt Schwaben was particularly shocking: the dogs were wrapped in plastic bags up to their tummies and held out in their own excrement.
An animal rights activist recently met with illegal dog dealers while the police waited in the background.
In the course of the pandemic, the number of dog registrations rose by around 20 percent compared to the previous year - which could also fuel illegal transports.
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