Franziskus animal shelter – petition for the federal government:
Dog tax for animal welfare
- Animal shelters collapse before our eyes.
- Already more than 120,000 signatures.
- Donations go back, people have less and less in the wallets.
Hamburg. Ail buildings, inflation, rising feed, energy and veterinary costs and an unbroken wave of delivery animals: Germany's animal shelters collapse before our eyes, a large part is in need of renovation and the Federal Government is not watching year after year. The record income, around 421 million euros annually (2023, Source Statistical Federal Office), Dog tax must finally go to animal shelters and animal welfare organizations – because they belong.
Frank Weber, initiator of the petition, is the head of the Franziskus animal home in Hamburg, moderator of the VOX program “Hund Katz Maus” and animal rights activist since childhood. He calculates: “The accommodation of a dog in the shelter costs around 500 euros per month, as a rule, if at all, the cities and municipalities are taken over. In addition, there was less and less money in the wallet for people and therefore the donations decreased. “It will be tight for the animal shelters.”
Cities and municipalities are taking more and more money from the dog tax! In the ten-year comparison, the revenue from dog tax rose by an incredible 41 percent: in 2013 the dog tax had brought in 299 million euros to the cities and municipalities. How do the hardships of the animal shelters and animal welfare associations and three -digit million amounts fit together in tax revenue paid by dog owners to the state? “Yes, the dog tax is not earmarked, but that does not mean that more money does not still have to flow into animal welfare,” Weber appeals.
“More and more levy animals, constantly increasing costs and longer length of stay of our protégés-finally show heart for Germany's animal shelter, dear federal government!”
The petition currently has more than 125,000 signatories. A handover is planned for one of the next meeting of the Bundestag or directly to the Federal Ministry of Agriculture in Berlin. Click here for the petition: innn .it/t i e r h e ime.