Berlin.
Dogs should soon be kept in a more appropriate way. Your owners then have to take their animal for walks twice a day, among other things.
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- Federal Minister of Agriculture Klöckner wants to ensure the welfare of dogs with a new regulation of the animal welfare dog ordinance
- Dogs should now be guaranteed at least one hour of exercise twice a day
- There should be more stricter rules for dog owners soon
- What do dog owners have to pay attention to in the future?
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With a New regulation of the animal welfare dog ordinance will Federal Minister of Agriculture Julia Klöckner (CDU) for a more species-appropriate Keeping and breeding dogs to care.
The corresponding plans of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture bring “new scientific knowledge about the needs of dogs” into the field.
According to the draft, dog owners must ensure that the animal at least exercise twice a day for a total of at least one hour has – either on a walk or in a garden, for example.
According to the ministry, this is to ensure that dogs get enough exercise and contact with the environment. In addition, the so-called TetheringKeeping as a chain dog is prohibited with a few exceptions.
Dog owners and breeders: Stricter rules will apply in the future
Stricter rules should also apply in the future professional and private breeders be valid.
- So may one Supervisor in commercial dog breeding according to the proposal of the Ministry of Agriculture only a maximum of three bitches and their puppies supervise at the same time.
- All breeders must also four hours a day with the puppies spend. Here, too, it’s about properly socializing the animals.
- For Throw boxes size and temperature will be regulated in the future.
- The exhibition of dogs, the characteristics of Torture breeding have, so suffer from pain and health problems due to breeding.
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Many breeds of dogs with problems
So there are many dog breeds that are inherited under Respiratory or joint problems Suffer. Behavioral disorders can also occur.
The Veterinary Association for Animal Welfare calls among other things
- Pugs,
- French and
- English bulldogs and
- German shepherds as races,
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where breed standards are often harmful to health.
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Ban on exhibitions aims to reduce demand
Torture breeding itself is already banned – with the ban on exhibitions, Klöckner hopes that there will be no incentive to breed animals and that demand will decrease. In addition, according to the ministry, the exhibition ban is easier to monitor for the authorities because the animals are actually visible.
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The federal states are responsible for enforcing the new rules. The exhibition ban is an “effective lever to remove incentives for such breeding and to protect the animals as best as possible,” said Klöckner. “Animals are not there to meet the questionable aesthetic desires of their owners.”
Farm animal transports are only allowed to take four and a half hours
In addition to regulations around the dog the draft also sees conditions for that Livestock transport before: Transports within Germany should not take longer than four and a half hours, unless it is “ensured that at all times during the transport in the area in which the animals are during the transport, the temperature does not exceed 30 degrees” . Also read:
Pigs should have more space in their stalls
“Especially at high temperatures we have to avoid that the animals are caused avoidable suffering by heat – that’s why I enforce stricter rules for transports here”, explained Klöckner and emphasized that these requirements went beyond those of EU law. (with afp)
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