Cat Protection Ordinance

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A cat protection ordinance is a statutory ordinance of a German state government or another authority for the protection of cats living in the wild. The legal basis is Section 13b of the Animal Welfare Act (TierSchG).

Content

The subject of a cat protection ordinance can be the definition of certain areas in which the high number of cats living in the wild is to be reduced by certain measures in order to reduce significant pain, suffering or damage found in these cats. The authorization under animal welfare law relates in particular to a ban on uncontrolled free exercise and the identification and registration of cats kept there.

As a rule, the owners of free-range, reproductive domestic and pedigree cats must mark their animals at their own expense using a microchip, register them in a pet register such as Findefix or Tasso and have them castrated . Violations can be punished with a fine of at least 1000 euros. In the case of cats that are not registered, the lost property authorities or authorized third parties, such as animal welfare associations, may have the identification and registration carried out. The keepers or owners are obliged to tolerate this.

Situation according to federal states

In November 2019, at least 788 cities and municipalities nationwide had issued so-called castration, labeling and registration ordinances for cats, most of them in North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse and Lower Saxony.

The states of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Hesse, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Schleswig-Holstein and Thuringia have the authorization to issue ordinances in accordance with § 13b sentence 5 TierSchG transferred to other authorities.

The district regulatory authorities are responsible in North Rhine-Westphalia . There, among others, the district of Wesel , the district of Kleve and the Rhein-Sieg district have a cat protection ordinance.

By ordinance of April 24, 2015, the Hessian state government transferred the authorization to the mayor in urban districts, and to the municipal council or magistrate in the other municipalities. As of 2018, 24 cities and municipalities in Hesse had a cat protection ordinance, including Darmstadt , Karben and Wiesbaden .

In Lower Saxony, cities and municipalities are allowed to stipulate the neutering of their free-roaming cats with a municipal animal welfare ordinance.

Individual evidence

  1. Municipalities with castration compulsory German Animal Welfare Association , accessed on January 2, 2020
  2. cf. § 5 Ordinance on responsibilities and on the transfer of authorizations to issue statutory ordinances in the field of animal welfare law (Competence Ordinance on Animal Welfare North Rhine-Westphalia - EntrustVO Tierschutz NRW) of February 3, 2015
  3. ^ Ordinance on the protection of wild cats in the Wesel district , Wesel district , accessed on January 2, 2020
  4. Ordinance on the protection of wild cats in the area of ​​the Kleve district of September 26, 2019
  5. Ordinance on the protection of wild cats in the Rhein-Sieg-Kries of July 6, 2017, PDF (29.52 kB). Link to download on the website of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, accessed on January 2, 2020
  6. FAQ paper - Implementation of § 13b Animal Welfare Act (TierSchG) in Hesse. Accessed January 2, 2020.
  7. Detlef Sundermann: Karben: Cat owners have a duty Frankfurter Rundschau , December 30, 2019
  8. Ordinance on free-range cats, City of Hanover , February 11, 2019