“I don’t even have to go out of the house to buy a dog,” one animal rights activist criticizes the online pet trade. It is also about possible fines for truant vaccination appointments.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the number of pets in Germany has increased by a million – animal rights activist Stefan Klippstein told Michel Abdollahi. At the beginning of the holiday season, these animals would increasingly be given to animal shelters. “The problem is that many people do not think twice about whether they are really able to keep an animal and just spontaneously buy a dog on the Internet,” says Klippstein. These would then be delivered to your home like a pizza from abroad.
No online trade in animals
Therefore, the passionate zoo keeper demands clear guidelines and laws from politicians. It starts with the dog, continues with the monkey, the cat, the guinea pig and the crocodile. Nobody checks online trading, says Klippstein. Often the new owners are then overwhelmed, but ashamed and sold the animal on instead of giving it to the animal shelter. “The animals wander through the Internet like a challenge cup and then end up in animal welfare with a completely disrupted behavior,” said Klippstein. He appeals: “If no one bought these animals (on the Internet), this trade would not exist.”
Fines for those who don’t care about vaccination appointments?
In addition, it is in the episode about possible fines for truant vaccination appointments. Mario Czaja, President of the German Red Cross Berlin, reports from a Berlin vaccination center that there alone up to 200 appointments a day are canceled because people do not show up. He is therefore demanding fines for truants – but there is also criticism of this proposal from politics.
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