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1. Many Romanians, amongst which many politicians, benefit from the continuation of the stray dog problem, because it's a money making business. Companies can subscribe on orders for the stray dog management. For each dog they catch they'll receive an amount of money. Their income will vanish once the street dog problem is solved. Likewise for the big waste disposal companies which incinerate dead dog bodies. None of these companies have any interest in solving the stray dog problem.

2. Commercial companies dealing with the stray dog problem are fraudulent. Dogs are being released with an ear tag without actually being spayed or neutered. Numbers are being falsified to gain more money.

3. The definition of euthanasia: dying without pain. However it is well known that within Romanian municipal dog shelters dogs are not being euthanatized in a humane way. Cruelty against stray dogs will increase.

4. The killing of free roaming dogs doesn't solve the problem. The W.H.O. scientifically proofed, that spay/neuter is the only solution. Spay/neuter is one of the components. The other ones are: public information, education in schools, a public/private partnership, including commercial vets and so one. If one component is missing, the problem will not be solved.

5. The current amendment by PDL (Democratic Liberal Party) collecting stray dogs in shelters, spay/neuter them and euthanize them after 30 days if they're not adopted, is expensive and useless. To be able to adopt a dog from a municipal shelter a potential adoptive person must pay a tax, show his salary and must have the approval of his neighbors and of the administration of the block. It will become much easier and cheaper to buy a (pedigree) dog than to adopt one from a shelter. Due to the irresponsible behavior of Romanian dog owners more dogs will be abandoned.
The amendment proposed by PDL is unimaginably expensive. Warehousing dogs is expensive, killing of dogs is expensive, because it is endless. As long as nothing is being done on the root cause of the problem, dogs will keep on producing offspring.

6. The Romanian politicians have manipulated the media to create some sort of a mass hysteria among Romanian citizens. In the last few weeks many false articles and television footages of bite incidents with stray dogs were printed and broadcasted. In all cases stray dogs weren't involved but dogs with owners. The fear of losing jobs and income creates more corruption.
Romanian public institutes publish false statistics of bite incidents by stray dogs. The Romanian human health care system is very poor. But if a citizen is bitten by a stray dog (with or without an owner) he can claim the medical treatment at the authorities. So each injury that might look like a dog bite will be assumed as one. Statistics became useless.

7. Stray dogs can be categorized. The real stray dogs (feral dogs) are the least fertile ones, but are always the target of authorities. But the target should be dogs with irresponsible owners; their dogs are the most fertile ones and produce offspring. The target will not change with the PDL amendment.

8. It is proven authorities only catch the "easy" dogs. Friendly dogs and puppies and even dogs with owners. Some dogs which might be made aggressive by men are never caught.

9. The amendment describes each municipality is allowed to decide if stray dogs can be euthanized or kept in shelters (extermination camps) or returned to the streets after sterilization or a combination of those actions. It's not implicating a national policy. If one city decides not to euthanize it will be overloaded with dogs from other cities which do so. Animal lovers will take the dogs to those cities and neighboring municipalities will dump their fertile dogs in those cities to get rid of their stray dogs. Increased migration of dogs will cause nuisance, waste of petrol and more pollution caused by vehicle movements.

10. Since 2008 the Romanian animal protection law only allows euthanasia in case of incurable diseases. However municipalities kept on going killing tens of thousands of dogs with cruel methods which were actually criminal offences, but so far no penalties were given. In the PDL amendment the presence of the representatives of NGOs at the activity (catching, sheltering, euthanasia etc.) of managing services is allowed only by the approval of the local council or city hall. The amendment will therefore not raise animal welfare.

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[HSuzanna]

Added to my "favorites" and I will share too in both languages. WHAT the hell is wrong with compassion and kindness towards ALL living beings??!!

As long as the human race use killing as solution of problems without remorse and regret, we are nothing more than savages!

Thank you for this excellent video and I hope with all my heart the good people can stop this...

[daniellechnernl]

@HSuzanna Super, Suzanna! When we all unite, we can make this government force to make humane stray dog legislation!

[RachelO56]

This is horrible that the dogs are the ones who have to pay with their lives because of corrupt politicians lining their pockets. Get these guys out of office!!

[StrayDogsArePests]

@rockinfortheplanet It's cause we have no place to put them in. There are too many of them and strayofascists aren't helping. They keep sabotaging every single attempt to get rid of stray dogs.

[StrayDogsArePests]

@daniellechnernl You have to be really naive if you think there is no corruption on the spaying/neutering side of the issue. NGOs have no interest in solving the stray dog problem either.

[Mariaatje57]

@rockinfortheplanet Thank you for your support and sharing!

[rockinfortheplanet]

Excellent video in favour of compassion and humane treatment of stray dogs, it is unthinkable that Romania could vote to kill these poor creatures rather than spay/neuter, the world is watching this issue and the sensible and kind option is the only way forward. Killing defenceless and overpopulated animals does not solve a problem, it only makes things worse and causes distress to the wider world, humanity must always be humane. Sharing.

[leandralelia]

thanks for your support, Daniel!!

[Mariaatje57]

Share and spread! This is how it is and it's not about strays; it's about money!

[PianoPlean]

Mèèèèn.. Deze is ÉCHT goed.