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Increased costs and more residents: Animal shelter Nuremberg is fighting - "We can use every cent"

2022-12-14T17:41:37.356Z


Increased costs and more residents: Animal shelter Nuremberg is fighting - "We can use every cent" Created: 2022-12-14, 6:37 p.m By: Thomas Eldersch The Nuremberg animal shelter is getting fuller and the costs keep rising. © Daniel Löb/dpa The energy crisis is also causing problems for the animal shelter in Nuremberg. In addition, more and more animals are given to them. The budget is barely e


Increased costs and more residents: Animal shelter Nuremberg is fighting - "We can use every cent"

Created: 2022-12-14, 6:37 p.m

By: Thomas Eldersch

The Nuremberg animal shelter is getting fuller and the costs keep rising.

© Daniel Löb/dpa

The energy crisis is also causing problems for the animal shelter in Nuremberg.

In addition, more and more animals are given to them.

The budget is barely enough.

Nuremberg – In times of crisis, the weakest always suffer first.

And the weakest are always those who cannot defend themselves.

It's about the animals in the Nuremberg animal shelter - the largest in Bavaria.

The facility has to accommodate more and more dogs, cats and the like, and meanwhile Christmas isn't even over yet.

Frequently, unwanted, living Christmas presents are then brought to the animal shelter.

But the shelter is already up to its neck financially.

Animal shelter Nuremberg: Largest facility in all of Bavaria

About 5000 animals come to the animal shelter in Nuremberg every year.

Boss Tanja Schnabel and her 32 employees worry about her.

Among them are trained animal keepers, two veterinarians and numerous volunteers.

Since 1839, orphaned animals have been taken care of in Nuremberg and nursed back to health.

The motto of Schnabel and her colleagues, which she revealed to BR, is: "We are a home and yet not a home.

For example, I cannot offer a dog what I can offer him at home.

The nurses don't have enough time for that.

I believe there is a right lid for every dog.

And if it sometimes takes longer to find him, it just takes longer."

Tanja Schnabel has been managing the animal shelter in Nuremberg since 2016.

© Daniel Löb/dpa

It becomes particularly difficult for the employees when their pupils face a sad fate or they have already had to go through a lot.

We recently wrote about the dog couple Biscuit (15 years old) and Koko (12 years old).

A palliative place is being sought for the two dog pensioners.

"Unfortunately, both are sick," says the animal shelter.

Only medication keeps the two four-legged friends alive.

Nevertheless, animal keeper Tina Wessel, among others, hopes that they will find a nice home again before it comes to an end.

Unfortunately, losing animals is part of the everyday life of animal keepers and helpers.

Still, it hurts every time.

Wessel on this to the BR: "Unfortunately, we have often lost animals here for reasons of age or illness.

It's always our fear that we have to accompany this and the animals don't die in their own home, their usual environment.

But here in the shelter as one among many.”

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During the Christmas period, no animals are adopted at the animal shelter in Nuremberg.

An exception is only made in rare cases.

Animal shelter Nuremberg: Budget of two million euros will no longer be enough

The work for the animal keepers in Nuremberg will probably not decrease either, because according to a current GfK study there are now 1.51 million dogs living in Bavaria alone.

That's 200,000 more than in 2018. And as the BR writes, biting attacks by the dogs have also increased.

However, 94 percent of people are not bitten by so-called list dogs, but by dachshunds, beagles and the like. That is why animal rights activists have long been demanding a dog license, otherwise more and more residents will end up in the animal shelter.

“The problem is always at the other end of the line.

It's so trite, but it's just so true," is the motto not only in Nuremberg.

Have also visited (from left): Mayor Marcus König, Prime Minister Markus Söder and President of the Animal Welfare Association Nuremberg-Fürth Dagmar Wöhrl.

© Daniel Karmann/dpa

In addition to the increase in animals, there are now also the increased costs.

The residents and the approximately 45,000 square meter area had to be supplied with around two million euros a year.

The financing of the non-profit association is mainly guaranteed through donations and inheritances.

But the increasing feed, energy and veterinary costs are causing the animal shelter increasing problems, according to the BR.

It is foreseeable that it will not last much longer, so Schnabel.

“We can use every cent that arrives here.

Every animal that does not have to end up here is good for us and good for the animal.

If there were a bit more rethinking so that only emergencies really ended up in an animal shelter, that would make it much easier."

(tel)

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Source: merkur

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