FRANKFURT — As Germans ready to set off more than 40,000 tonnes of pyrotechnics on New Year’s Eve, Anja Gerauer is plotting her escape, hoping to shield her dog Joy from a night of noisy trauma. Like hundreds of other pet owners, she has checked herself and her canine companion into a hotel near an airport, where a fireworks ban means the chaos will be far away on Wednesday night. Gerauer, a 56-year-old filmmaker living near Frankfurt, still remembers the first New Year’s Eve after she had adopted her mixed-breed dog from a shelter in Romania three years ago. READ: […]... Keep on reading: German dog owners sit out New Year's Eve chaos in airport hotels