Photos of how some puppies looked when they arrived at the Jilava shelter, and how the same puppies looked in March 2012. The Jilava shelter is looking to:
Roxana Chirita, Adina Enache, Ana Maria Hutu met the owner of Jilava's shelter, and offered ideas to improve the shelter. They cleared out a lot of the dangerous construction material stored at the shelter, and started treating the animals with vaccinations, dewormers, and feeding them regularly. The food we provided to them each day these past 8 months helped the dogs to get rid of demodex and to look and feel much better. We are looking to raise $1500 to train the local veterinarian on using modern spay/neuter procedures. Your donation will help keep the stray animal population from getting worse in Jilava. Romania Animal Rescue hopes to go to Jilava as soon as funding can be secured to spay/neuter 100+ animals ($2200). Thank you.
RAR received this thank you letter for funding 150 spay/neuter procedures to Pro Animals Romania for World Stray Animals Day. The event occurred for three days, between April 2 and 4, 2012. We would like to share Patricia Paraschiv's account of the event: Hi Nancy, We would like to express our huge thanks to you and the RAR team for choosing to organize the Spay/Neuter campaign in Pro Animals Romania animal shelter between 2-4th of April, 2012. Pro Animals Romania has about 600 rescued animals in its care and have been running neutering campaigns for the dogs during the past years since 2000, as well as intense adoption and school education programmes. We were so happy to hear about the 150 free spaying offered by RAR! It was such a great thing to be able to celebrate the World Stray Animals Day on 4th of April together by offering free spaying to Tg-Jiu community. Although the schedule was very crowded those days, it was all worth it! I was so happy to see so many owners bringing their pets to be neutered, meaning that they really understood the importance of neutering as the only way to reduce suffering and as the only efficient and humane way to limit the stray dogs population! I have tried to schedule everyone for spay so that we can run our programme without problems, but people continued to come with pets asking to have them spayed. Also, so many people were calling asking if we have more free places that I had to start a new 'waiting list' for the next similar campaign. We also announced local mass-media about this event so reporters and journalists came in Pro Animals shelter in such a big number, interested in the campaign. They filmed, they took photos and interviews of the RAR medical team, PAR president as well as of pet owners. In total there were 90 animals spayed: 77 females, 5 males, and 8 cats. Here are the photos taken during this event. Also, here are few of the press articles from local and regional mass-media: Besides the neutering there appeared a case that was successfully solved by the RAR medical team. A female from the public shelter was neutered by the vet from the City Hall Shelter one week before the Neutering Campaign. During this period we saw she was feeling bad so we took her into our shelter to treat and supervise her. Next morning we came to the shelter, but before the neuterings started we saw her cage full of blood and she was covered in blood as well, with her intestines out as the sutures broke. As she was very weak already, lost a lot of blood and part of her intestines eaten, her case became an emergency one. After the anesthesia, the surgery started and it took some time until everything was done. Taking into account what she passed through surgery was just the first, and most important, step for her recovery. Although at the beginning her chances for her to live were so small, luckily, because of the successful surgery and good postoperative care in just a few days, her health started to improve and now she has fully recovered. Big thanks to the RAR medical team for this successful case. Thank you, RAR team, for offering free Neutering/Spaying campaigns and doing such great work! By offering free neuterings/spayings to owners who can't afford to go to a private vet and would otherwise abandon the unwanted litters on the streets that most of them would suffer to death, you make such a difference for the life of those animals! Keep up the good work! Lots of hugs,
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Thank you, Mayhew International and for sponsoring the printing of the educational booklets. Thank you, Animal Care Austria, for your donation to help with the expenses for our Spayathon. Thank you to our wonderful donors for your donations that keep our programs to help the Romanian animals! Love to you, |
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129 spays/neuters in Barlad! 90 in Adjud!
230 in Galati!
50 in Baia Mare! 50 in Iasi! 90 in Tg. Jiu!
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For the matriarch in your family, why not purchase a gift of love that will also help alleviate suffering of animals? It is such a great gift. A donation of one spay ($22) can prevent 67,000 puppies from being born into a world of suffering! A donation of five spays ($110) can prevent the birth of 335,000 puppies! Your mother will get a card from RAR and you will get a tax-deduction! Thank you, Peter, for your wonderful suggestion!
