Around 15,000 animals are to be culled at a poultry farm in southern-Germany after the country's leading animal disease centre confirmed the spread of bird flu, the Ministry of Agriculture in the ...

Germany prides itself on its high animal welfare standards, enshrined as a national objective in its constitution since 2002. Yet animal welfare organizations fear the government is stepping back from ...

The current wave of bird flu in Germany is likely to spread south from the northern states where it is now most prevalent, ...

A fire at a pig-breeding facility in northeastern Germany is believed to have killed more than 55,000 animals, the operator said Thursday. The fire broke out on Tuesday at the facility in Alt Tellin, ...

BERLIN (AP) — Cases of people hoarding cats, dogs and other living creatures in Germany reached a 10-year high in 2021, the country’s Animal Protection Association said today. The association said it ...

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MIAMI (CBSMiami) - An animal shelter in Germany is getting creative to help find new homes for their resident cats and dogs. Captain Kirk is one of the cats that the Munich Animal Welfare Association ...

Germany’s new government plans this year to introduce proposals for a state system to label meat in shops produced with improved animal welfare, German agriculture minister Cem Oezdemir said on ...

Too cute to eat? One miniature bull's size may have just spared his life. Napoleon is small but mighty, just like his historical namesake, according to the rescue farm in Germany that took him in.

Germany is a country of animal lovers, but shelters have to take in over 300,000 abandoned pets each yearVictor Weitz/DW A white-handed gibbon, native to the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia and ...