Placement of animals
    We prefer finding new homes for the cats and dogs within an area of some 100 km as we would like to be available for the animals after the placement.
    Of course there are occasions where we do not insist upon this rule, particularly as practice has proven that sometimes THE special human we are searching for, i.e. for THE special dog, is not always to be found within this limited area.
    Please note: Cats will be given to indoor places only.

    Placement proceedings are always
    • Dealt with by the first chairperson of the society (the most important work of the animal welfare is run by one person only)
    • Taking the animal to its potential new home directly (and doing so, controlling the new home before and after the placement becomes unnecessary). Apart from that experience has shown that the relevant animal feels a lot more comfortable to be taken to its new place by a person it knows than being collected by the new owners.
    • Placing medical examined animals, i.e. blood-test, vaccination and free of parasites is a standard procedure. Dogs hold a registration chip and if possible also castrates. Cats are castrates and hold a registration tattoo.
    • Looking for and placing animals at their new homes with forthrightness to the benefit of the animal, so that both the animal and its new people can start a good and happy life together.
    We feel that a good and successful placement of the animals entrusted to us is the most important issue of the animal welfare. Expertise, knowledge of human nature and honesty regarding individual convenience and needs are essential. Our main aim is the animal welfare, meaning that the well-being of the animals is first priority.

    An animal welfare society cannot provide social work, i.e.
    • We cannot give an animal to a socially weak person just because they think that they might need it for their well-being or for their (in many cases honourable) emotions.
    • We cannot adjust failings in the upbringing of children with our animals. Furthermore animals cannot replace a possible lack of attention, time and love of some children.
    • We cannot place a dog with a fulltime worker even if he/she is very animal loving but we could offer cats alternatively. Unfortunately, most of the time an optional cat is not wanted as the person prefers a dog waiting for her/him to be walked after work and on weekends. Such young, agile and selfish clientele refuses to accept any kind of advice (“in that case keep the pooch yourself”). Unfortunately such people often get their dogs elsewhere which, if it is lucky, ends up at the pet shelter as a disposal.
    • We cannot give a puppet to an elderly person even if that person “used to have puppets throughout its life” and states that the children will take care of the animal should the elderly not be able to do so itself anymore. Experience will have it that the latter rarely happens. Even animals being beneficiary of the deceased more than often lose their residence and simply vanish.
    • We cannot place un-neutered cats to their new homes as unfortunately the consequences of a fertilisation appear to be regarded as a “tough luck” situation by many humans. Even the very old thesis that a cat has to have kittens at least once in its life has become quite popular again.
    • We cannot place our FIP/FIV positive cats as fellow cats to a FIP/FIV negative cat. FIP/FIV and FeIV are highly contagious cat diseases and very common. 20 years of experience in the cat welfare and the awareness of this highly contagious cat disease are the reasons why ANIMA Hilfe für Tiere e.V. prefers giving cats only to so-called indoor places.

    At present, you will find our animals on the website of “Herrchen gesucht”
    (http://www.herrchengesucht.de)
    „Placement of animalssdatenbank“ (search criteria: PLZ 65760, within a radius of 0)
    and www.hundherum.de

    The ANIMA Hilfe für Tiere e.V. Team would like to thank you for your interest in its work.
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