Donation successes

What your donations achieve

Here we inform you how we use your donations. Because whether we are working for animal shelters in Germany, for street animals abroad, for research into alternative animal testing methods or for more animal welfare in agriculture - all this is only possible because animal lovers like you support us. Thank you very much!

We are sounding the alarm: animal shelters at the limitMany animal shelters are already overcrowded

If an animal is in need, animal shelters are there to help. The staff at animal shelters do a great job for their charges. But more and more often we receive the call for help: We are at our limit!

The increasing number of animals in need - whether abandoned cats, victims of the illegal puppy trade or rescued animals from animal hoarding households - presents animal welfare activists with major challenges time and again. The animals need daily veterinary treatment, loving care and feeding, which often exceeds the capacity of the animal shelters. Many facilities are already overcrowded and face financial constraints as the cost of energy, food and medical care has risen dramatically.

Our emergency aid enables us to provide financial support to affiliated animal shelters quickly and unbureaucratically. In 2023 - thanks to your help - we were able to support animal shelters with grants of around 1 million euros and provide food aid worth 400,000 euros.

Your donation is vital to help animals in need and provide much-needed support to shelters to continue their life-saving work for animals.

You can help shelters at the limit here.

Hund in einem Behandlungszimmer mit zwei Frauen.

20 YEARS OF THE WEIDEFELD ANIMAL WELFARE CENTERRESCUE ISLAND FOR ANIMALS

Whether furred or bristled, scaled or feathered, animals in need find refuge in our Weidefeld Animal Welfare Center.

Since the official opening in 2003, over 400 animals have been living on the 13-hectare site in Kappeln on the Schlei in Schleswig-Holstein: mistreated horses, confiscated parrots, abandoned reptiles, neglected pot-bellied pigs - animals that had to be evacuated from the Ukraine and many more are housed here. The doors at Weidefeld are also open to injured or orphaned wild animals.

Would you also like to be part of our sponsor community? Then become a project sponsor for the Weidefeld Animal Welfare Center.

Tierpflegerin füttert die Waschbären in Weidefeld

They can all recover here from the stresses and strains of their past and are nursed back to health by our experienced animal care staff. We release most of the wild animals back into the wild, while we are able to place many of the pets in loving hands. Some of the residents find a permanent, safe home in Weidefeld.

With your donations, people like you ensure that every animal in Weidefeld receives the help it needs - and has done so for 20 years! An anniversary that we want to celebrate in style at our next sponsor meeting on July 15, 2023.

Kaltblutstute Zara, Patentier in unserem Tierschutzzentrum Weidefeld, wird von einem Pfleger geführt

We stay with the animals!Animal aid despite war

For 17 years, the Odessa Animal Welfare Center stood for unprecedented success in the fight against the plight of Odessa's street animals. Then Russia's war of aggression threatened to destroy everything - but the courageous colleagues refused to give in.

When Irina Naumova, head of the Odessa Animal Welfare Center, talks about her work, she can still smile today. That's how much her team has achieved with our help. While an estimated 80,000 street animals still dominated the cityscape of Odessa in 2000, this figure has been steadily reduced, especially since the opening of the center in 2005. The consistent implementation of the "catch, neuter, release" principle was so successful that the street dog problem was under control before the start of the war.

Irina, head of the Odessa Animal Welfare Center with a cat in her arms.

Then came February 24, 2022 and we had to bring all the animals from the center to Germany via Romania. The end? No, because fortunately Odessa is not as badly affected by the war as feared. For Irina and her team, one thing is certain: we will continue!

Neither the temporary closure of the Odessa Animal Welfare Center nor the difficult conditions during the war led to the end of our help for animals in need.

You can support the work of the Odessa Animal Welfare Center here.

Dog from Odessa in the Ukraine with animal keeper from the Weidefeld Animal Welfare Center

Happy ending for LuigiFrom sick puppy to happy dog

Luigi plays happily in his new family's garden. Anyone who sees the young dog dashing around like this can hardly believe that his start in life was anything but easy.

Luigi comes from the illegal puppy trade. The traders separated him from his mother at just three weeks old in order to sell him. Police officers confiscated him and ten other puppies that were far too young during a traffic stop near the Polish border. They had been on the road for hours without food or water. Almost all of the dogs were infected with the dangerous parvovirus. They were also unvaccinated and suffered from worms and fleas.

The Freital animal shelter took in the puppies and fought day and night for their survival. All the animal keepers were most worried about Luigi, as he was the youngest and weakest

Puppy Luigi in the hands of a veterinarian.

The intensive round-the-clock care was effective - all the puppies gradually got better! The staff were finally able to look for a new home for the little ones. They found a great family for Luigi, who already has a dog. Luigi can romp to his heart's content with his new buddy. Luigi and the other puppies from Freital have made it - thanks to the help of animal lovers like you.

The illegal puppy trade presents many animal shelters with a mammoth task - both in terms of staffing and finances. Thanks to your donations, we can support the animal shelters financially, for example by paying for the puppies' vaccinations.