OIPA for Romania (2001-2006)

Romania/Bucharest:
Animal overpopulation started with Nicolae Ceausescu's dictatorship. The poverty generated by this regime, combined with numerous expropriations, forced thousands of pet owners to abandon their companions. Thus, the abandoned dogs bred freely in the streets.
In a press conference on 26 April 2001, Traian Basescu, announced that, from now on, he will no longer use "euthanasia" to describe the treatment he applies to all dogs captured on the streets of Bucharest, Romania, but "liquidation".
The Mayor Traian Basescu promoted a new programme that leads to the distruction of almost all the estimated 70.000 street dogs.
This announcement unleashed a series of violent acts against animals, all over Romania, widely covered in the local media.
Due to the fact that stray animals get killed in Bucharest as well as in the governmental animal shelters, OIPA decided to intervene.
In January 2003 we decided to support the building of a shelter. OIPA collaborated with "Natura - Mostenire pentru Viitor" association of Bucharest, Romania.
In May 2003 began the building of the shelter according to city planning regulations on an area of land (3 000,00 sqm) near the Bucharest ring, in the Popesti-Leordeni suburbs.OIPA supported most part of the costs for construction work and land. It means the fence, cesspit, well, route disinfector, wooden-storage, big enclosure, play-area, foundation of water-house, first quarantine etc.
OIPA also provided surgical instruments, medicines, sanitary material and funds for food.
Today the shelter accommodates about 200 dogs. They all are sterilised, deparasited, dewormed, vaccinated, and are waiting to be rehomed.
Since we started with the emergency action the dogs are treated, vaccinated and neutered.
Natura manages a TNR program for the dogs of the comunity of Popesti-Leordeni, near the ring of Bucharest, where the shelter is located. OIPA Italy had sponsored this program.
During these years, since 2003, many animals were rescued, about 600 dogs and cats. Over 500 animals were fed or treated. About 750 animals were sterilised.
In spite of exceedingly difficult conditions, our colleagues on location have worked fast and efficiently. We want to express our gratitude to them, to the colleagues from "Natura", and to many volunteers - we wouldn't have done it without their help.

Thanks to our dear Maria Daines for the song "Abandoned In Romania"
http://www.maria-daines.com

and to Mary Alice Pollard for the video

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• OIPA
• Romania
• song

[gogoasacenusie]

@Alaskanguide1 , you are very right man...i totally agree with you and i hope these fucking stray dogs will be exterminated. Even Ukraine exterminates them, not to mention US, Britain, France, etc. Fuck PETA and all this "stray dog protection" shit, these stray dogs put annually in hospital 11.000 people only in the city i live in

[bobeagle07]

Protest against this, can an european's country make this if is in Europe ?

[dany21M]

lightsand900 , i can just agree with you! Violence is bad, even when animals are affected, they are creatures of GOD just like we. Who is violent or encourages violence is the ANTICHRIST!

[lightsand900]

Don't torture the creatures of GOD , don't kill in cruel ways the creatures of GOD , don't kill the creatures of GOD if not for feeding or in situation of extreme danger.

Respect GOD , respect His creatures , HE made all the creatures and all His creatures have feelings.

[amaliabuttons]

Yes, packs of dogs can be aggressive. But to have them poisoned the way my "civilized" neighbours do makes me angry and all I can say is that this country deserver nothing more than it gets. It is OUR responsibility that there are now thousands of stray dogs. It all started with Ceausescu's demolition of people's houses when hundreds of dogs were left behind. Those dogs multiplied, the money that should have been spent in having them neutered was "invested" in our officials' villas and voila...

[flaavia33]

Please tell me how many of these innocent dogs have you met in person ? I have been attacked several times, and even if I have my own dogs and I am not afraid of dogs, this is a horrible and terrifying situation. I am not mean or heatless. I have adopted a homeless dog myself. That is the right thing to do, but most of these dogs cannot be turned into pets. Now, get a life.

[flaavia33]

To Alaskanguide1:

Some ignorant people simply do not understand that these are not pets. They are a pack of wild animals that kill old people and children. It is as easy as that. Romania cannot do anything about it since it is a poor ex-communistic country with little resources and old communistic mentality. Even if all these thousands of dogs are being cured of deseases and adopted, people are always gonna kick out other thousands of dogs.

[Alaskanguide1]

Buna Ziua flaavia33, I am American who does commercial tours in Romania so I have seem this serious stary dog problem .

To the bleading heart idiots here I ask, So when is a stray dog that attacks children and tourist more importaint than the well being of the of the Romanian people ?

I can no longer take tourist into some parts of city's in Romanian due to these wicked dogs protecting their turf, so who is lossing tourism money is Romanian shops and market owners and gift shops !

[flaavia33]

Dude...get help...but before that I advise you to go and see it for yourself......

I feel bad for the dogs too...but in a poor country the resources are limited and yeah....people are retarded to treat dogs like this...but honestly...I have seen this brutality so often that it hurts only thinking about it...there are cities where the number of homeless dogs per inhabitant was equal to 7...do you understand this???of course not...you have to see it and live with it...so .....

[jlroesener]

i believe people who are stupid enough to kill or hate innocent dog should STFU. :) thank you