In the corona lockdown, many a four-legged friend was brought into the home office as a companion.
Now that normality is slowly returning, many animals could be abandoned, fears the Hamburg CDU - and calls for more capacities in the animal shelter.
Hamburg - The Hamburg CDU sees the city badly prepared for a wave of abandoned pets it feared.
With decreasing corona restrictions, more and more people who had bought pets and especially dogs during the pandemic would part with them, said the animal welfare spokesman for the citizenship parliamentary group, Sandrokap, the German press agency.
"The number of dogs has demonstrably increased significantly as a result of Corona.
If travel is possible again, many dogs will be abandoned. "
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As a written small question to the red-green Senate showed, there are no preparations to deal with this problem.
"The Senate admits that it did not take precautions if the shelter was overcrowded," said cap.
However, if the animal shelter refuses to accept animals, many keepers would simply abandon them.
"If the animals are simply released on the streets, it will be too late," he warned.
The CDU has therefore been calling for precautions to be taken for a year.
"The Senate has so far rejected this."
In its response, the Senate did not comment on a possible increase in abandoned animals.
“It is not possible to predict the release of found animals at a fictitious point in time.
In addition, the Senate generally does not answer hypothetical questions, ”it said.
There are also no data on the reception capacities at the animal welfare association, as the animal welfare association is not obliged to provide them.
According to the Hamburg Senate, tax accounts were kept for 59,106 dog owners in September, a good 5,600 more than in June of the previous year.
dpa