PETA demands: “Germany urgently has to follow” “
Copenhagen/Stuttgart. Significant step for more animal welfare and less suffering: Denmark has passed a law that prohibits breeding of dogs with serious hereditary diseases and malformations. This decree applies to both private and commercial breeders and also includes regulations on inbreeding and also mandatory health examinations for certain breeds. The aim is to ensure that bred animals have no known inherited diseases. In order to protect the health of the four -legged friends, an age limit for dogs used for breeding is also introduced.
Jana Hoger, animal psychologist and specialist for animal roommates at PETA, welcomes the decision: “Denmark goes with the ban on dog breeds, whose breeding is associated with serious hereditary diseases and malformations, is very important. Since painful breeding leads to massive protection problems, the country here shows how four -legged friends are preserved from an suffering life and an early death Dackel, the so -called dakelling of the cerebellum is hardly possible for people.