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Berlin, where unemployment hovers around 13 percent, has 100,000 registered dogs, many of them owned by pensioners and the unemployed.Berlin -- In a sign of the times in Europe's biggest economy, poodles, pinschers, terriers, and sheep dogs are queuing up for rations at Berlin's first soup kitchen for pets.
The venue is a disused night school in the former communist East Berlin where the smell of straw, dry food and wet dog lingers in the air as a Jack Russell in a checkered coat waddles past on its way to the kibbles line for biscuits.
Pensioners and those on welfare qualify for the free pet food buffet, which opened in the district of Treptow in mid-October, allowing those with no disposable income the chance to hold on to their beloved dogs and cats.
Berlin, where unemployment hovers around 13 percent, has some 100,000 registered dogs, many of them owned by pensioners.
The soup kitchen also caters to other pets -- including cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, and budgerigars. Twelve volunteers hand out food and advice, while keeping an eye on the animals' health.
Food rations, donated by individuals and food companies alike, will normally cover the animal's needs for four to five days.
Tiertafel, launched two years ago, now runs 19 soup kitchens across down the country. With the looming prospect of the longest and deepest recession in Germany since World War II, the group is planning on opening 30 more.
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