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Animals need help - Animal welfare needs helpers
"Like people, animals feel joy, pain, happiness and sadness." said the British natural scientist Charles Darwin.
Animals in our care should be guaranteed a life without having to suffer - that's what the German Animal Welfare Society
(Deutsche Tierschutzbund) and the internationally active WSPA (World Society for the Protection of Animals) are agitating for.
Animal welfare is also traditionally a top priority at Fressnapf Tiernahrungs GmbH: the company and its franchisees have been
supporting the German Animal Welfare Society's affiliated animal sanctuaries since 1996. Fressnapf has been patron for the
House Pet Register of the German Animal Welfare Society since 1999. And since 2000, Fressnapf has also been sponsoring the
WSPA and supporting their animal rescue and awareness campaigns. Apart from anything else, supporting projects for the
benefit of animals by financial or tangible means is something very close to the heart of Fressnapf.
Each year, the roughly 500 animal homes affiliated to the German Animal welfare Society take in over 100,000 cats and around
90,000 dogs. These refuges house around 300,000 animals of which approximately 70,000 can't be placed and have found a home
there. The retailer Fressnapf and its franchisees regularly support the German Welfare Society with food and other tangible
contributions and organise special promotions for these shelters. In 2005 the company and its franchisees donated animal food
to the value of around 47,000 euros. Traditionally, Fressnapf conducts sales promotion events for World Animal Week and
donates the net profits - a five to six figure sum - to the Animal Welfare Society.
Folk music stars Stefanie Hertel and Maxi Arland have been the celebrity godfathers of these events.
As patrons of the German House Pet Register of the German Animal Welfare Society, the central office for stray animals,
Fressnapf is contributing to house pet identification to enable them to be returned to their owners. In this context
Fressnapf conducted the "Chip Chip Hooray" promotion together with Stefanie Hertel in 2004 where Fressnapf rewarded
100,000 pet owners who had had their dogs or cats chipped by a vet with a voucher to the value of ten euros.
A total of one million euros worth of vouchers was handed out. Over and above this, Fressnapf offers the
German Animal Welfare Society a monthly forum in the company's customer newspaper, the "Fressnapf Journal",
to provide information on current animal welfare topics. Animal sanctuaries can also present their own homepage
on the Fressnapf website free of charge at: www.fressnapf.de
The WSPA organises international promotions and awareness campaigns.
It is the only animal welfare organisation to have advisor and observer status at the UNO in Geneva and the Council of
Europe in Strasbourg. Among their projects are, for example, is animal rescue: the aid teams are on site at earthquakes,
volcano eruptions, floods, hurricanes as well as crisis regions and among other things attend to the provision of veterinary
care and animal shelter centres. Their work also includes campaigns against animal cruelty such as awareness promotions
against bear fighting in Pakistan or bull fighting in Europe and Mexico. Fressnapf makes a regular financial donation,
among other things, to the bear project in Pakistan. "Support such as we receive from Fressnapf helps us get things moving
and make a small improvement in the world for animals." says Martin Riebe, Managing Director of the WSPA in Germany.
www.tierschutzbund.de
www.wspa.de
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