German dog owners sit out New Year’s Eve chaos in airport hotels

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