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29/11/2011 Editor's guide: Pets in Germany

Expatica's Pet's section offers valuable information on pet relocation and covers all you need to know about keeping your pet in Germany.

29/11/2011 Bringing your pet to Germany

Bringing your pet with you to Germany Getting yourself and your family organised to move to Germany is hard enough. But what do you do with your pet? Expatica tells you how to make...

06/05/2011 Petting pigs for pensioners

Felix is a pig, but no ordinary pig. He and his Dutch owner visit old people’s homes in Germany as therapy. Felix likes to be stroked and fed...

20/11/2010 How to drive your dog crazy

Fancy your dog in a traditional Bavarian Dirndl costume? Bavarian designer Hildegard Bergbauer, who creates Dirndl dresses for women, also makes...

21/07/2009 Have dog, will travel

Dogs make the best holidaying companions but careful planning is needed.

21/06/2009 Hungry vultures get daily 'five-star' feast in Spain

Jose Ramon Moragrega has developed a vulture sanctuary, where the threatened animals are served a feast of rabbits every day. But is his initiative...

09/01/2009 As recession bites, Germans open pet soup-kitchens

Berlin, where unemployment hovers around 13 percent, has 100,000 registered dogs, many of them owned by pensioners and the unemployed.

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