Bottrop.
A walker brought a box to the Bottrop animal shelter. The animal friends found a dead bearded dragon inside. She is frozen.
As soon as she opened the cardboard box, she had a queasy feeling, says Hildegard Frank-Tüllmann, head of the Bottrop animal shelter. Then the sad certainty: a dead bearded dragon is lying on a bed of kitchen paper.
A walker had found the large lizard in a closed box in the Kölln Forest and brought it to the animal shelter on Monday morning. “We are shocked and sad,” says Hildegard Frank-Tüllmann.
On Tuesday morning there was the next sad discovery: a passer-by discovered a box in the forest and brought it to the animal shelter. The animal lovers found a guinea pig in it – fortunately it is still alive.
Increased costs: Bottrop animal shelter takes in more animals
There’s no reason to heartlessly throw away your once-loved pet. “Even if it is sometimes not possible to leave the animal in good hands overnight, it should still be worth it to everyone that the animal for which you have taken responsibility is given a safe place.”
In view of the rising cost of living, but also veterinary costs, the animal shelter expects more animals to be given up because the owners can no longer afford to keep them. Last year, a particularly large number of animals were taken in by the animal shelter, the manager said recently in an interview. Some were carelessly abandoned beforehand.
The animal rights activists appeal: “Please do not abandon your animals. They don’t survive long outdoors in this kind of weather and have to suffer an agonizing death locked up!”
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