The situation at animal shelters is more dramatic than ever before. The new issue of DU UND DAS TIER, the magazine of the German Animal Welfare Federation, is dedicated to the major challenges facing animal shelters this winter.
Animal shelters are overcrowded with animals that were thoughtlessly acquired during the coronavirus pandemic and are now being returned or even abandoned by their owners. The situation is exacerbated by exploding energy prices, higher costs for animal feed and veterinary treatment as well as an increase in the minimum wage. DU UND DAS TIER explains the dramatic situation and provides information on what help is needed now. Nothing less than charitable animal welfare in Germany is at stake.
Hibernation, dormancy and torpor: wild animals have very different strategies for getting through the winter. Bats and dormice, for example, hibernate for a long time, badgers and squirrels go into hibernation and amphibians and reptiles fall into a deep hibernation. DU UND DAS TIER explains the differences.
While their wild counterparts head south in winter, domestic geese now face a painful fate: millions of them end up on our plates every year in Germany alone as a traditional Christmas roast. In addition to their meat, their livers are also in great demand. DU UND DAS TIER takes a look behind the cruel scenes of two popular delicacies on the festive table.
In other articles, DU UND DAS TIER takes a close look at the tethering of cattle in violation of animal welfare and interviews Dr. Joachim Wiest, CEO of cellasys, who has been researching alternatives to animal testing in the cell culture laboratory of the German Animal Welfare Federation for 10 years. The magazine also highlights the valuable work of Sonnenhof, which the Animal Welfare Federation took over as an animal welfare facility this year, and presents the association's new campaign “Now more animal welfare”, which calls on the German government to finally implement the animal welfare promises made in the coalition agreement.
