Michel Klein, the PAF’s most famous veterinarian, known for his interventions in several flagship programs such as “30 million friends“ or the “Club Dorothée”, died on Saturday in Rueil-Malmaison (Hauts-de-Seine). He was 103 years old. It was the host Dorothée herself who announced it early Saturday afternoon on her Facebook account, followed by the https://twitter.com/JLA777/status/1847641118927675750. “Doctor, you will always remain in our hearts. Thank you for everything,” published the host of “Club Dorothée”. Information confirmed by his wife, Marie-Christine Klein.
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Figure of animal protection
Identified by many viewers as a figure of animal protection in France, Michel Klein appeared in several flagship programs in France: “30 million friends“, “Club Dorothée”, “Télématin”, or even “Youth Wednesdays”. He also launched his own program, “Earth Beware Danger”. By the 1960s he had become a media figure.
“He did so much for animals and animal protection. He knew everything about everything. He wore his heart on his sleeve. We have made magnificent broadcasts for years,” reacted Dorothée on Saturday.
Vice-president of the SPA
But his commitment went well beyond his appearances on television. Born in 1921 in the northwest of Romania and sent to France by his parents to study in the 1930s, this former Resistance fighter was one of the first to open a veterinary practice in Paris in the 1950s. Close to Brigitte Bardot, Michel Klein recounted her journey in a work published in 1976, These Beasts who made me Man.
Vice-president of the Society for the Protection of Animals (SPA) for 18 years, he co-founded the National Council for Animal Protection and also participated in the launch, in 1982, of the Guide Dog School for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Paris, with the support of Jacques Chirac.
In 1970, he submitted to the Prime Minister at the time, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, the idea of tattooing dogs to identify them in the event of loss. He was a Knight of the Legion of Honor since 1994.
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