Overview
- Residents followed distress calls to an empty property in Tundersleben and found a cat caught in a spring trap known in German as a Schlageisen.
- Firefighters opened the device and freed the injured animal, and police brought the cat to an animal boarding house for treatment.
- Officers from Polizeirevier Börde opened a criminal investigation on suspicion of violating the animal protection law, the Tierschutzgesetz.
- Authorities stressed that private individuals are not allowed to set spring traps in Germany.
- Police have not identified the cat’s owner or the owner of the abandoned property where the trap was placed.