Dog running system
A dog run is a device that allows a guard dog to have limited exercise. It consists of a rope stretched between two posts to which the chain with the watchdog is attached. The watchdog can run along the rope and move away from it as far as the chain to which the dog is attached allows. Usually there is also a dog house as weather protection within the dog's range of motion .
Dog runs on the inner-German border
Dog runs were widespread on the former inner-German border . They were installed there from the early 1980s to replace and supplement self-firing systems and minefields . Dogs were used that could move along a stretched steel cable on 100 to 200 m long sections and thus call attention to movements within their field of vision by barking. The dog runs were looked after by the service dog system of the border troops of the GDR on behalf of the Ministry of National Defense . After the fall of the Wall , the task was to find a new use for around 4,000 service dogs, colloquially known as "Trassenhunde". 1,500 animals found a new home in households in the GDR , 2,500 were mediated by the German Animal Welfare Association in the Federal Republic.
literature
- Marie-Luise Scherer : The dog limit . Verlag Matthes & Seitz Berlin 2013, 90 pp. ISBN 9783882210774
- Lydia Dollmann, Manfred Wichmann: Photography forbidden !: The Berlin Wall seen from the east - With photos and memories by Gerd Rücker, Ch. Links Verlag, 2015, p. 49f.
Web links
- Photo of a dog run on the Inner German border between the border fences near Großburschla (1989)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Grenzdenkmal.com , accessed on March 31, 2018
- ↑ Dog running system at the GDR border , accessed on March 31, 2018
- ↑ Book review of The Dog Limit , accessed on March 31, 2018
- ↑ cuddly beasts - The GDR wants to get rid 2500 decommissioned border dogs , Der Spiegel, issue 5/90 of 29 January 1990; accessed online on March 31, 2018