The eternal lockdown is not only annoying, it also leaves the coffers empty in many industries. For example, also with the animal boarding houses. You are allowed to open, but the problem: Almost nobody travels. This means that the operators look after fewer animals than usual. This is how Annika Werner von’s business runs Anna’s animal boarding house dragging in Güsten near Bernburg “At the moment I have a dog where the owner is in rehab and a dog that the owners carry out repairs at home. The remaining 1-3 dogs a day are day dogs from the dog kindergarten. But that’s not nearly as many as before Pandemic. Sometimes there were up to 15 dogs a day. “
Many masters and mistresses are in the home office and take care of their animals. This has been the case for a year and it won’t look any different in the coming weeks “I’m usually fully booked over the Easter holidays and only four dogs have registered this year.”
For Werner this is a drop in sales of up to 95 percent. Last year she received emergency aid from the state “And nothing since then. I asked my tax advisor about further help. But the dog care was not closed, could continue, so there is no further help.” Werner sent all of their employees on short-time work.
Werner also hears similar fates from other animal boarding houses and carers “Running costs such as loans, insurance, taxes, etc. cannot be deferred forever, not to mention private expenses. So if you are on your own, you are threatened with bankruptcy.” But Annika Werner continues to fight against this. She doesn’t want to give up, on the contrary “True to the motto: Don’t bury my head in the sand, I have created a second mainstay with food advice and will also be opening a dog school from autumn.”
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