Animals

Most people know of the joy and pleasure that pets can give. Especially those people, who live alone or are older, can confirm this. The therapeutic value of an animal is also undisputed. Briefly said, pets enrich people’s lives.

However there are also negative side-effects. Dogs stray around the fields because their “masters” or “mis-tresses” do not put them on the lead or have any influence on them. It is especially bad that dogs drop their excrements at all possible and impossible places (e.g. playgrounds) without this being prevented or immediately removed.

Cats often breed without restraint, especially when they live wild or half-wild. This can also apply to domestic cats. It would be better to have the animals sterilized to prevent offspring which cannot be put up either and then strays.
It is incomprehensible that animals are left behind, when people move, and then stray.

Consultancy and help are available at the local veterinary doctors:

• Sabine Gresser, Wallgrabenstrasse 4, tel. 5 15 02
• Dr. Norbert Weis, Bruhrainstrasse 1, tel. 5 51 96

Further veterinary doctors in the area can be found on this link (in German).

Unfortunately it happens again and again that animals are abandoned.
If you find such an animal, you can take it to the animal home Tom-Tatze-Tierheim (in German), Nusslocher Strasse 108, 69190 Walldorf.

Otherwise it is important to consider whether an animal fits into the household or family and whether it is suitable as a gift for children and is permanently welcome.