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Dog Romeo tied to the fence for hours – animal shelters sound the alarm: “They are full to the roof”

2022-08-09T16:50:35.013Z


Dog Romeo tied to the fence for hours – animal shelters sound the alarm: “They are full to the roof” Created: 08/09/2022, 18:39 Animal shelters are feeling the effects of the Corona pet boom. Many are overwhelmed and give their four-legged friends back - or even abandon them. Nuremberg – When the door to the Zwinger opens, deafening barking can be heard. A number of dogs run excitedly up and do


Dog Romeo tied to the fence for hours – animal shelters sound the alarm: “They are full to the roof”

Created: 08/09/2022, 18:39

Animal shelters are feeling the effects of the Corona pet boom.

Many are overwhelmed and give their four-legged friends back - or even abandon them.

Nuremberg

When the door to the Zwinger opens, deafening barking can be heard.

A number of dogs run excitedly up and down behind the bars.

Romeo, on the other hand, immediately disappears through a hatch into the inside of the dog wing.

"He's very anxious," says Tanja Schnabel, who runs the Nuremberg animal shelter.

She can only guess what the three-year-old mongrel experienced.

The dog is a found animal: He was tied up in a residential area for three hours before someone brought him to the animal shelter.

He was even reported as deceased.

"How malicious can people be...", the animal rights activists are annoyed.

And Romeo is not alone.

Corona pet boom burdens animal shelters: "We are full to the roof"

The Nuremberg animal shelter is currently home to around 60 dogs, around 120 cats and even more small animals.

"We're full to the roof," says Schnabel.

As a result, the shelter can no longer take in any more animals.

According to the German Animal Welfare Association, the situation is similar in other animal shelters in Germany.

"The many animals in care push the staff to their limits," says President Thomas Schröder.

Mainly because many of the dogs are difficult to handle and need a lot of care.

A nurse will therefore later go for a walk with Romeo.

You can't entrust such an animal to the volunteers who usually walk the dogs in Nuremberg.

"The assumption is that these are the aftermath of Corona," says Schnabel.

An animal keeper at the Nuremberg animal shelter takes a walk with found animal Romeo, a three-year-old Molosser.

© Daniel Löb/dpa

That's what Beate Kaminski from the Berlin animal shelter thinks, too, where a noticeable number of young dogs of larger and more demanding breeds were given up last year.

"People had probably brought little puppies into their homes in the wake of the Corona pet boom, but they hadn't done the necessary upbringing work.

At the latest when puberty started, they were completely overwhelmed by the young dog,” she says.

Tierheim Berlin imposed admission stop

The animal shelter has since imposed a freeze on admissions.

There are more than 80 dogs on the waiting list alone, which the owners would like to give up.

There are not only a lot of dogs in the Saarbrücken animal shelter at the moment, but also a particularly large number of young ones.

Otherwise older animals would be given away, says Frederick Guldner.

Many of the dogs behaved strangely.

"They don't know how to communicate.

They react aggressively and bark at strangers.” Others have diseases of the muscles and the skeleton.

“That makes it difficult to adopt the animals,” says Guldner.

No one takes a German shepherd that has hip problems by the age of one.”

Udo Kopernik from the Association for German Dogs (VDH) also notes that the Corona period has left its mark on young dogs.

“The dogs already have a deficit.

They grew into a time when you moved in a cocoon,” he says.

They were used to being looked after around the clock and had little contact with other dogs and people.

When the owners had to go back to work after months in the home office, the problems arose because they couldn't take the dog with them, but they didn't want to be alone or be looked after by others.

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Illegal puppy trade blossomed due to the Corona crisis

Another problem is the illegal puppy trade, which has blossomed due to the great demand for dogs in the Corona crisis.

Last year, 170 puppies that the police had freed from illegal transport ended up in the Nuremberg animal shelter alone.

Many of the puppies are far too young to be separated from their mother and siblings, says Kopernik.

“When they are puppies, it is not obvious that they are missing a crucial step in socialization.

However, this becomes apparent when puberty is reached.

The dogs become aggressive, and there are biting incidents in the family.”

According to Kopernik, the illnesses in young dogs reported by the Saarbrücken animal shelter can also be traced back to dubious breeders who did not carry out proper health checks on the parent animals.

"It's all about mass and making money quickly."

Animal shelters often find it difficult to find a new home for such dogs - especially now that the Corona pet boom has died down.

“At the moment there are hardly any requests for our animals.

Maybe it's because people don't want animals anymore," says the animal shelter in Salzgitter, Lower Saxony.

(dpa)

Source: merkur

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