As some of you may know, we just (finally) adopted a cat ♥️
I was raised in a house with cats literally since the day I came home with my mom from the hospital after being born, so when I moved to Germany to a new house, new environment, food, language and people I really felt the emptiness of not having a cat. My cats stayed in Costa Rica as good tropical cats that I won’t bring into a place with winter, besides we were living on a second floor so no cat friendly.
Now we live on a ground floor and the cat project materialized thanks to a friend of Micha’s brother, who’s parents had some spare kittens to give away ♥️
So we visited them first to check Micha’s allergies and since no allergies were given we adopted Saarland 🥰
For those of you out of Germany, this country is divided in 16 federal states and the smallest is named Saarland. People in the news use it as reference of size when there are natural disasters (e.g a forest fores the size of Saarland) so we decided to name the cat like this to measure our stuff in cat measurements 😂.
So come to the point: How to adopt a pet in Germany?
Well… Depends of the pets you want. In the case of cats you can pick one from a shelter (Tierheim, there is at least one in every midsized town), or the cat magically chose you or, like us, you meet someone who’s cat was getting accidental kitties, then you just get it 🙂
After that comes the visits to the Tierarzt/veterinarian to get them the basic vaccinations (they even get a vaccination card ♥️) and you can ask for a chip. The first round of vaccines + the chip was like 60€, so not the cheapest thing in the world but waaaay cheaper than we expected.
You of course need to get food, sand (that traps pee and masks poo smells, top), a transporter and a bed. And a Mousie, all cats i know love them 😂
If you want a dog on the other side, prepare to pay taxes, as there’s a dog tax in Germany no matter your dog’s size 😔