Overview

• Police in Bischofswerda captured an escaped coati on Sunday and are probing how it left its enclosure at the local zoo.
• Officers in Nohfelden smashed a car window on Friday to free a visibly exhausted Maltese dog from a hot vehicle and have launched a case under the Tierschutzgesetz against its 36-year-old owner.
• Bundespolizei Hamburg found a stray cat hiding under a seat on a Saturday Regionalbahn from Lübeck to Hamburg and transported it under police escort to a shelter.
• Firefighters in Osterholz-Scharmbeck rescued a barn owl stuck in a residential chimney, handed the unharmed bird to wildlife specialists for care, and later released it.
• The weekend’s incidents demonstrate routine coordination between emergency services, animal shelters and wildlife experts alongside legal follow-ups under public-safety and welfare laws.