Piper and Nikita playing in the sun. The two Kittens claws into each other and rolls like ball of wool across the floor. Not always, however, it was in your life as bright as it is now at the shelter, Strubeli in Volketswil ZH.
Both of the cats were abandoned by their owners after the birth of the last warm days Nikita in a residential area in Winterthur and Piper, together with four siblings in Volketswil in a Parking lot. Walkers have starved to death discovered the young cats and in the home delivered – “half, emaciated and full of parasites,” says shelter Manager, Katja, get stone. The nurses, they were kept in the clinic, gave them the Bottle, every two hours, even at night. Now they are “over the hill” and himself exhausted from the last summer. Get stone: “So many foundling cats like this year, we have never had.”
The number of cats and dogs brought to the shelter, although declining, but it is a signs of the opposite Trend: nine years Ago, the major had been made part of the cats from their holders (55 percent). In 2018, only every third cat was a so-called waiver of the animal, i.e. the owner surrendered due to a divorce, relocation, or allergies. The largest part of the mice hunter in homes, but today, Findel cats. The trend continues to grow.
highlight of the cat’s misery
The show of the last ten years of the Swiss animal protection (STS), which could be for the first time, analyzed the Numbers. The statistics consists of data from animal shelters STS-sections and, thus, from figures of around 66 to the animal protection Association connected to animal protection organizations. It is the largest animal shelter database in Switzerland and is estimated to cover three-quarters of all shelters.
year after year, stray dogs come into the home, but their number has not grown as strongly as those of the foundling cats. The number of the Latter amounted in the year 2009 4500, nine years later, over a third more.
animal rights activist Esther Geisser familiar with the Problem of strays from the work well: “this year, the cat has reached misery in its peak”, says the founder of the animal protection organisation Network for Animal Protection (Please). Not only in the country, in the cities there is more and more stray animals, for example, currently in Basel’s St. Johann district. Please-activists catch you and castrate you. To place animals in animal shelters, feral will be left on the Site again: “however, our animal shelters are overcrowded for months,” as a Please-survey in 25 homes was. And the Situation had not relaxed until today, although this is usually after the summer vacation the case.
Katja get stone from the animal shelter Strubeli can confirm this: “The foundling cat beings is increasing significantly. I was four days here, and in this time we have to get eleven young “cat foundlings”. We are bursting at the seams.” Currently, she has to provide 21 young cats, in the summer, there were at times, over 40, and 20 kittens are on the waiting list.
reasons for the increase in the number of abandoned cats there are a few, one is that already very many cats live in Switzerland. “Since it is logical that the number increases of those who run away from home,” says Helen Sandmeier, press officer of the Swiss animal protection. The come with cats, which are considered to be independently, also, if they are well cared for.
more Dramatic looks Please-activist Esther Geisser. She speaks of a cat overpopulation, 1.7 million were in Switzerland, one of them is estimated at 100’000 to 300’000 of them lived alone.
more and more people managed to be thoughtless animals; firstly, because young cats are everywhere, have almost or entirely for free. Secondly, Social Media helps that a lot of people would Jöö effect a standstill: “the desire to have such sweet animals is growing.” Appeared the first problems, for example, because the cat is a cat and mark, the vet need and cost-intensive, would be deported, the cat just as quickly in a home, or exposed to, how they were acquired. The animals are not neutered, they multiply in a short period of time enormous. Geisser: “A cycle of misery.”
The Finder are aware of the need
“The cat is now a disposable item”, it brings home the head to get the stone to the point. Many of their wards were born in the home, because eight pregnant cats were taken. These would be often exposed, because their owners fear labour and costs of a litter with. The number of boulders have also increased, because the stroller, sensitized and homeless cats reported more about animal alarm panel STMZ.ch.
In the first Tierasylen in the 1890s, the men were clubbed loose dogs after a period of seven days to death, as the Zurich animal historian Aline Steinbrecher white. Today, animal shelters are mainly transit stations. Dogs and cats, rodents or snakes are not only included, but for most, a new Home is found. In the case of the dogs, the 2018 in two of the three cases was possible in the case of the cats, the placement rate was 80 percent.
Who pays wants to adopt a cat from the animal shelter Strubeli, around 400 Swiss francs. Not much when you consider that the shelter for vaccinations and castration invested around 600 Swiss francs in an animal; food, rent, and salaries of animal caretakers is not counted. Some of the animals die in the homes, and a growing proportion can be returned to the owner if they are chipped.
There are even Hotels for cats – in the Neuter, however, is facing problems.
but so far, calls home Director Katja get the stone to the responsibility of pet owners: “people should buy only an animal, if you have informed intensively about the needs and are safe to can this in the long term to meet.”
To Please activist Geisser’s no way of castration: “The Overpopulation is the origin of the misery.” Please and the Foundation for the animal in the law a requirement for cat owners to let their free-roaming cats spay. In June of 2018, you have filed a Petition with 115000 signatures, the support of more than 150 animal welfare organizations. Both the Federal Council and of the National and the Council of States have rejected, this obligation in the law to anchor. A similar Motion by Doris Fiala (FDP) has not yet been dealt with conclusively.
the castration of duty resinous forward, although animal suffering could be reduced, thus, may be surprising, especially since at the same time, the animals will be increasingly humanized. The love of Animals was never grown as big as today, the effort that it operates for a pet that is. It pet hotels, puppy are play groups, Massage and beauty salons, nutrition consultant. To dress Fifi in Gucci and fed him vegan.
the ambivalence of The people
cat as a disposable commodity on the one hand, “monkey love” on the other? This is not a contradiction, but is based, according to animal ethicist Thomas Gröbly in the same: in the self-centeredness of the people. This ambivalence has a long Tradition in Judeo-Christian Thinking, in which man is regarded as the crown of creation and the plants and the animals in subjection to power. Gröbly: “to the Extent you can do with the animal what you want: slaughter it and eat, suspend, or love like crazy.”
But Gröbly notes a change in culture. The sign of the mass animal farming initiative, veganism, or that animals are no longer considered today, before the law as a thing to be. The change will ensure that we treat animals increasingly to their specific needs and abilities and non-human interests in the foreground: “Then the people no longer to create headless animals.”
lucky for the two young cats Piper and Nikita. You are allowed to remain in the house together in new-found Home: “you hang on each other and have their place, there are mega friendly,” says Katja, get stone. In a few weeks, the two of them are three months old, old enough for the next step.
Created: 27.10.2019, 19:42 Uhr