Anyone else struggling with pets tonight?

It's definitely a tough night for a lot of dogs, not just puppies. Something that helped us was giving our guy something to do with his mouth, like a frozen kong or a bully stick, the chewing seems to distract them from the noise.

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The first NYE with a dog is always rough, don't worry. A big thing is that you can't really desensitize a puppy to the actual physical pressure and vibration of the blasts, which is what really spooks them. Try putting him in the bathroom or a windowless room with the radio on loud, a lot of people swear by that for the worst hours between midnight and 1. If you have a car, some dogs feel safer in there since it muffles the sound and blocks the flashes, just make sure it's not too cold.

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Our dog was a disaster her first NYE in Berlin too, so you're not alone. One thing that helped us was taking her for a long, tiring walk around Treptower Park earlier in the evening before the real chaos started, and then giving her a frozen Kong filled with peanut butter around 11:30 to keep her occupied through midnight. The chewing and licking seemed to calm her down more than anything else.

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Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.

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if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point

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honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.

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