7 Jul 2014

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On July 2nd 2014 we visited the animal shelter with several students from the Second Chance School of the VHS Aachen.
The animal shelter has 20 permanent employees, about 3000 club members and approximately 1550 sponsors who support the association with financial and material donations as well as voluntary work.
This animal shelter is the second largest association within the metropolitan area of Aachen.
Mrs Dr Knauf, director of the shelter, informed us about the activities of the volunteers and the organisational background of their work.
A primary task of the association is to promote a protective awareness towards animal through legal channels in order to safeguard the animal from mistreatment and cruelty.  This is done by way of clarification, counselling and offering help when problems arise in animal protection controls. The association takes in both animal that have been dropped off by their owners and strays. It takes care of these animals before attempting to pass them on to new owner in return for a “protective fee”.
In the end, Mrs Knauf took us around the shelter, showing us cats, dogs, house-rats, birds and rabbits in their shelters.