The pet store chain Cats & Pets in Austria operated five stores in Vienna (2), Wiener Neustadt, St. Pölten and Vösendorf. On 19 March, founder and proprietor Rudolf Weiss, who established the company back in 1975, had to apply for insolvency proceedings at the Wiener Neustadt Regional Court. The attorney Mag. Thomas de Jong of Mödling has been appointed liquidator.