The Folketing eats off the Swiss dog handlers with small sums to find the animals that the drivers have hit

Finn Hyldahl Petersen from Ansager in Varde Municipality is a tinsmith by day. As a Swiss dog handler, he directly loses money. – You add money if you are at work. Then you have to stamp out and drive. And the agreement on animal welfare does not change that. They have also tried to get the insurance industry to talk to get the car’s liability insurance to pay for the traffic searches. But without luck. Archive photo: Henrik Reintoft

In the new agreement on animal welfare, the Swiss dog handlers, who go out 7,000-8,000 times a year to look for game that has been hit in traffic, are in mind. But the amount of one million kroner per year is hard to swallow.

Henrik Reintoft [email protected]

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• Finn Hyldahl Petersen from Ansager in Varde Municipality is a tinsmith by day. As a Swiss dog handler, he directly loses money. – You add money if you are at work. Then you have to stamp out and drive. And the agreement on animal welfare does not change that. They have also tried to get the insurance industry to talk to get the car’s liability insurance to pay for the traffic searches. But without luck. Archive photo: Henrik Reintoft

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  Although Swiss dog handler Finn Hyldahl Petersen does not hide his disappointment at how little money the Danish Parliament allocates for traffic searches, he is happy that they were finally heard. Archive photo: Henrik Reintoft

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  Whether it’s night or day, the Swiss dog handlers are called out approximately 8,000 times a year when drivers hit deer, fallow deer, sika or roe deer. Until now without getting a single penny for it. Archive photo: Henrik Reintoft

2024-02-10 04:48:00
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