Stray Dog Rescuers - Romania - 2013 - Subtitles

I'm Carmen Arsene the president of national federation for animal protection Romania but I would say that I am simply animal rights activist. The stray dog population it's a problem for many years already for about 20 years in Romania. The only solution for an efficient and real stray dog management is mass sterilization of the stray dogs and of the own dogs identification, registering them and keeping in the street the dogs who are healthy and kind. And if this strategy is applied in about 6 years the stray dogs do not exist in the street any more. I'm Giovanni animal rescuer from Romania. We started as feeding street animals around the block and around the office building. and then we realized we can find them new homes. We have different packs in specific areas we've known those dogs for few years. During time we castrate them sterilized and find homes for a lot of them. Us means me and my wife. It is very known that mass killing of dogs is not efficient such as density of dog population in the street increased with rate of killing. So even after 20, 30, 100 years we'll have the same problem in the street. My name is Nina Marin. I'm from Bucharest, 63 years old. I'm very disappointed that in Romania animals and especially dogs are very badly treated. The dogs and myself were assaulted by the neighbours they were trying to break the fence and let them outside on the street They are threatening me with beating me up and killing me The situation is not resolved because the neighbours are still aggressing me. I hope that police will help and convince them to understand that animals need to be protected. We have this paddock place and we also do some stray feedings. Some of the money we receive as donation as association but it's a small part. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 8 now, in this moment Where are you going? The crazy one escaped! When I come on Saturday I usually have more time and I walk them here in the yard so they are used to go out. My name is Sorina. I've been helping animals for 13 years but I'm in rescue field for 6 years. The stray dogs are a result of abandonment. Some other people say that Ceausescu destroyed lot of buildings and villages so a lot of dogs remained after that but those dogs died several years ago. With my experience in this field it's that people abandon animals. The tradition didn't show them how to correct treat an animal and how to They don't spay, neuter their own pets and dogs are thrown around big towns. I usually meet lot of puppies new ones without mothers on the street so this means they are brought there. The dogs are killed directly in the street by poisoning campaign for example leaded by local authorities I mean city halls. The children and other compassionate people are very affected because of abuses against animals that they saw in the street because of killing of dogs that are their companion and it was concluded that 84% of the children are affected of what they saw in the street. It seems that a boy 4 years old was found somewhere on a private place killed by the dogs Actually nobody knows who killed this boy. Immediately it was suppositions that he was killed by the stray dogs and the problem was treated superficially from legal point of view on the other hand population received very false information. Since September it changed the general attitude of people They are more angry on dogs They think they are allowed to kill them in the streets They don't want them in the street any more and they think this is the solution. They approved basically mass euthanasia for dogs. No matter if the dog is adoptable or healthy or... Just now they will be allowed to kill them after 2 weeks in the public shelter. If we speak about legislation in the paper everything or the most part seems to be very humane. Also the conditions that every municipality have to ensure for the shelters but in practice in reality the situation it's opposite Nothing have been respected. Even the process of adopting the dogs was not respected. They asked for money to give the dogs back or to adopt the dogs. It is like a kind of mafia. Any complaint of the citizens or the NGOs regarding illegal and cruel management of the stray dogs run by municipalities finds ignorance and complicity of the authorities that responsible for monitoring the animal legislation If we look inside these dog shelters kept by municipalities and you see the huge budgets that are allocated fictive on the paper like for example even two hundred euros per dog and make a comparison for example with an NGO who treat the dog by neutering it vaccination, keeping for about 7-14 days and spend only 25 euro per dog you can understand that actually the stray dog management it's only a business. Some examples of companies are Iberia Velvet and Olcon Metal from Slatina Puppy Vet from Constanza Dr. Emilia Herescu from Boldesti-Scaieni near Ploiesti Danyflor from Timisoara And a new firm Marco Deni Construct 2004 from Pitesti that are capturing the dogs and they are actually a construction company. So, the authorities observed that after tens of years when they killed masses of dogs hundreds of thousands of dogs and they spent fictively tens of millions of euros the stray dog population increased. And their aim it's actually to keep a constant stray dog population to have what to manage what to administrate and to continuously allocate funds from local budget to manage the stray dogs This money is actually used probably for election campaign, for political parties or for other private reasons. But anyway they don't go to the dogs. So, euthanasia law. I consider it's not a legal law It's approved by the judges of constitutional court who are not really democratic. Euthanasia is not generally used here. Actually here it means mass killing. On the other hand we can say that about a half of the dogs that are kept in the shelters of the city halls are dying because of starvation and because sometimes they kill each other Some of them survive because they eat the cadavers of other dogs So, let's say this means euthanasia in Romania The vet who used to work there left the shelter because he was forced to kill the dogs and he didn't want to We hope that a good vet will be hired here We can help him to kill as less dogs as possible by supporting the shelter. When I found them 2 years ago they were very, very skinny Now they look much better. I didn't count it exactly but few hundred euros per month because we feed these and also pay the rent for the paddocks and food for the paddocks food for the strays Every two days I go in a different place to feed and on Wednesday I come here again and on Saturday I come here again. Every day few hours only in the weekend one day full. We do our little part That part makes us as happy as possible But we hope that things will be improved by our authorities. Because we help 1, 2, 3, 10, 20 souls but it's no enough. I'm asking all the citizens of EU especially animal lovers but not only to help our animal lovers who are involved a lot in protecting dogs and animals This is the reason why we try to help as many as possible. To see them happy somewhere in a family She was so little and so innocent I always wonder how can they abandon a little puppy like this? They have no soul.