Scandalous hunting laws: Animal protection in Burgenland urgently reform!

Scandalous hunting laws: Animal protection in Burgenland urgently reform!

Burgenland, Österreich - In Austria, a frightening legal opinion from Univ.-Prof. Dr. Erika Wagner from the Institute for Environmental Law at the Johannes Kepler University Linz revealed that the killing of dogs and cats is legally covered. This particularly affects the federal states of Burgenland, Tyrol and Upper Austria, where the practice is not subject to any restrictions. Hunters can shoot dogs that can be caught outside the range of their owner or poaching. Cats are at risk from a distance of 300 meters to the next house. According to krone.at it is estimated that up to 30,000 pets are killed by hunters every year, a frightening number that cries out according to reforms.

scandalous legal situation and demands for reforms

The initiator of the report, Beatrix Leberth, fights for a change in the law after the traumatic experience of losing her own dog. Your concern aims to shed light on not only ethical but also legal aspects in order to achieve a legal re -evaluation in the sense of animal welfare. The killing of animals is also allowed in many European countries. In countries such as Estonia, Latvia and Romania, brutal killing methods are legal, while in other EU countries such as Germany and Sweden, this is expressly prohibited, such as dogsoulmate.de reported.

It is not only the frightening legislation that causes doubt, but also the way many countries deal with the problem of stray dogs. Experience shows that fatal measures do not bring long -term success. The Association of Noah Crete e.V. emphasizes that sustainable solutions such as castration programs for stray animals are more promising. Animal protection organizations therefore require a general ban on killing pets to fundamentally protect the quality of life of the dogs and cats and to modernize the legal situation.