Kaiserslautern / Bonn (DAPD). The German Animal Protection Federation complained that more and more members of the U.S. Army in Kaiserslautern for a withdrawal of troops to leave their animals. It is through the reduction in troop levels, this is increasingly the case, the association said on Friday in Bonn.“Increasingly, especially dogs are simply the old apartment, which also may be located, outside the barracks left in outdoors exposed to or directly in the local shelter of the Animal Protection Association Kaiserslautern given,” said President Wolfgang Apel. Since the city had no way to enforce fines to pet owners felt safe from the legal consequences.
Talks with the U.S. Army and the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Interior had so far been inconclusive. The shelter on the ground could not absorb any more dogs now. The Animal Welfare Association demanded in a letter to U.S. Ambassador to action.
An American animal shelter in Kaiserslautern was closed two years ago. As a result, the local animal shelter is now up to its capacity limits will be charged. According to the Humane Society so far no financial compensation for costs incurred during the recording of the animals by members of the U.S. military has flown. This was, however, originally promised in the closing of the American shelter.