Overview
- Police discovered multiple dead cats, including adult animals and kittens, packed in several blue garbage bags in a woods near Kustermannstraße and the find was reported to the Starnberg police.
- Investigators say the bodies were too decomposed to establish how the animals died, which has limited immediate forensic conclusions.
- The police have opened a criminal probe on suspicion of violations of the German animal protection law (Tierschutzgesetz) and are also examining possible links to reports of professionally butchered wild game in the same area.
- Officers have appealed to the public for help, asking for reports of missing cats, sightings of blue garbage bags or suspicious persons and vehicles, and they provided the tip line 08151/3640.
- Similar incidents were reported in April and in prior years, and the repeated discoveries this year have raised concern among local pet owners and prompted a wider investigation into possible poaching and illegal disposal patterns.