German engineering

I’ll sin of being politically incorrect here, but if this doesn’t fall into the German pragmatic stereotype, I don’t know what does…
Hey,! before you start shooting arrows at me, I’m Hispanic, so don’t tell me about stereotypes.
IOL: Germans ditch their cats after bird flu death

Berlin – Hundreds of German cat-owners have dumped their pets at shelters since the country recorded the first case of a cat dying of bird flu in the European Union, the German animal welfare society said on Thursday.
“Nationwide, several hundred cats have been left with us. People are scared their cats have bird flu,” a spokesperson for the group, Jan Pfeifer, told AFP.