The Stray Dog Business in Romania – by Codrut Feher, FNPA.

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

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The stray dog business in Romania – by Codrut Feher, FNPA

Between 2001 and 2011 the Romanian animal control people have killed hundreds of thousands dogs by spending tens of millions of EUROs in public funds, while the number of stray dogs only grew larger.

For example, in Brasov, although there were only 4,000 stray dogs in 2001, the dog catchers managed to “kill” about 20,000 in 8 years. The only noticeable result of the “final solution” was the emergence of a classic mechanism of siphoning off public money, put in place by the local authorities and animal protection services in Bucharest and many other cites and towns (Brasov, Arad, Constanta, Timisoara, Ramnicu Valcea, Braila, etc.), authorities that came to realize that the mere existence of the that strays is a very profitable business for the following reasons:

– Budgets. 

Under the pretext of the “stray’s terror” generous budgets were allocated. The Bucharest do catchers spent about 13 million EURO in 7 years. The dog catchers in Brasov spent about 2 million EURO in 8 years. Overall it is estimated that Romania spent between 25 and 40 million EURO on strays from 2001 until 2008.

– The flexibility of the budgets. 

Contrary to the popular belief that fuels the anti-stray protests, the money spent on food for the strays was just a infinitesimal part of the budget, as the dog were being fed “subliminal” quantities, to quote the so called specialists from DSVA Brasov. Out of a total budget of 1,500,000 lei for 2008, the dog catchers in Brasov allocated only 5,000 lei for the dog food, less than 3%. Instead enormous gas quotas were approved. In Brasov, 4 rundown old cars with easy to tamper with mileage tracking systems were each allocated about 350-400 l of gas per month, which means each car did about 100 km/day. Land was rented for the municipality shelters, despite that fact that local authorities had land they could build on. In Brasov, the municipality paid in 8 years more than 1,500EURO/month (170,000 EURO in total) to the owners of a former swine farm that was in really bad condition and it also invested in modernizing the farm. All of this while it could have built a brand new shelter with 15,000 EURO on a land it owned.

About 100,000 lei were annually spent on tranquilizers and lethal substances, but nobody ever checked that against the number of dogs reported caught and/or euthanized. These substances were bought illegally (without prescriptions), used illegally (because the dog catchers got lazy and started to catch all dogs with tranquilizers, committing two felonies and one ?) and may have even been used or sold as drugs (Vetased, the most used tranquilizer contains ketamine, which is used as a drug and is legally considered drug since 2010).

In Brasov, the chief dog-catcher even got to buy his own jeep, a Mitubischi L200, for about 30,000 EURO, under the pretext of helping large animals, such as cows, pigs. Bears, rhinoceros or giraffes that might have wondered into the public roundabouts build by mayor Scripcaru. Rumor has it that the jeep is used in certain weekends by two local authorities in their hunting trips.

– The business of gathering dogs. 

Several mayors with business “abilities” transformed the local animal control departments into businesses that made money by catching and killing dogs from small towns that didn’t have their own shelters or by catching the dogs in a town without shelter and “hosting” the dogs in a different city, tens of km away. The corrupt mayors became so addicted to these profits that they imposed quotas on their dog catchers: the Brasov dog catchers hunted in 4-5 counties, bringing over 120,000 lei to Brasov’s budget. Most of the dogs were exterminated in the Stupini shelter and a small number were handed over to other cities that had shelters.

The whole operation was made profitable at the price of torturing the animals and breaking the Romanian animal protection laws. After loading up the dogs and before heading for Brasov, the Brasov dog catchers would be paid per number of dogs for capture, transportation, sheltering and euthanasia.

Since they were already paid and everyone saw them leaving with the dogs, nothing (certainly not their conscience) stopped the dog catchers from releasing most of the dogs on their way back to Brasov, to make sure that the problem continues and they are called back to “help”. Any animal lover would be happy to hear that, if they didn’t know that the dogs would be caught again and again, sometimes injured in the process, and would most likely continue to multiply.

– The counting of the dogs. 

The audit of the activity of the do catchers was a chimera. Nobody was really counting the dogs. Nobody knew how many dogs actually went through their hands, from capturing through incineration, especially since the documents for Protan (the incineration company) were filled out by the dog catchers themselves who approximated the weight of the bodies, filling in numbers with a lot of digits and even decimal points, and tried to make it match the number of dogs they claimed to have caught. It was very easy for them to claim for example they caught 5,000 dogs while in reality they caught half of that number. The dogs that (fictionally) entered the center were also supposed to (fictionally) leave the shelter. On June 25, 2009, according to the official documents, between 131 and 54 dogs were killed in Brasov. A witness and several documents point to the fact that only 90 animals were killed and that those dogs were from Victoria, Fagaras and a few other towns. In November 4, 2009, the Brasov dog catchers captured 46 dogs in Covasna. People from Covasna were told that the dogs were in the Brasov shelter and people from Brasov were told they were in the Covasna shelter, but the dogs were not found in either shelter. On June 1st 2010 the Brasov dog catchers caught 48 dogs in Sangeorgiu de Mures and transported them to the Reghin shelter. The Reghin shelter received and registered only 25 dogs.

Another way to make money was to manipulate the adoption numbers, especially the adoptions towards private shelters: adopted dogs were also counted as euthanatized. In 2008 at least 400 dogs were adopted from the Brasov dog catchers by the “Millions of friends” rescue association. In the official documents that number is 0!

Finally, another way was to modify the number of deceased dogs, by recording a smaller number than the real one and accordingly increase the number of euthanized dogs. For 2008, the shelter mortality as it resulted from official records was of 79 dogs, meaning a dog died every 4 days. In the first months of 2009, the mortality was of only 23 dogs, meaning a dog did every 8 days. In reality, the number of dogs that died in the shelter is much higher: at least 300-400 in 2008 and at least 150 in 2009. And there were also the dead dogs that were found in the city and which had to be, of course, euthanized.

Through all of these manipulations the animal control folks were gaining about 25-30 lei per dog, by either selling the substances for euthanasia or by writing fictional invoices, in complicity with folks from the veterinary supply deposits.

– PROTAN and how to incinerate public money. 

The incineration of a 20 kg dog costs 10 EURO (0.5 EURO/kg). Since most shelters don’t have weight scales and Protan reception documents specify that the quantity column should be filled out by the customer, the weight was eyeballed by the animal control folks. If you fictionally kill between 40 and 60 animals, you also need to approximate their weight and fictionally incinerate about 1,000kg, which brings Protan about $500 EURO.

If you extrapolate this schema to a whole year between 10,000 and 15,000 EURO were embezzled in Brasov only.

It was obvious that this whole embezzlement mechanism was accompanied by a long term strategy to keep the animals on the streets. When they were out hunting in other cities the dog catchers were catching everything they could get their hands on, especially dogs with owners or protectors and dogs that were sterilized and returned to their territory according to HG 955/2004. There were cases where dogs were taken while walking next to their owners or where the dog catchers went into people’s yards and took their dogs. A lot of the owners tried to negotiate a return fee smaller than the official one and eventually, especially in Bucharest, a “protection fee” paid to the dog catchers became the norm.

Although the problem of the aggressive dogs was supposedly the number one priority, the animal control folks rarely caught aggressive dogs. Instead they almost always took puppies and little, friendly dogs that were easy and safe to catch. This approach had the double benefit of keeping the dangerous dogs on the streets in order to perpetuate the “terror of the strays” while making the dog catchers appear as heroes and saviors in the eyes of the people.

Quarrels… in the “dogcatchers ‘ paradise

 

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At the end of December 2007 the Deputies Chamber voted a modification of the Animal Protection Law(205/2004) also known as “Marinescu’s Law”.Among other things, this law classifies animal cruelty as a crime punishable by law and prohibits the euthanasia of healthy cats or dogs.It seemed as if common sense and logic had won over the hundreds of mayors and dogcatchers (who during 8 years managed to “bury” aprox. 35 million euros in a mountain of stray corps).Also, during the same time, in December 2007, the Senate modified the law concerning the strays and replaced euthanasia with spay/neuter and returning to territory, according to the WHO’s guidelines. AND NOW COMES THE “PROBLEM”….These two new legislative measures would have solved the strays problem, leaving all of those who made big money from the “stray business” without their huge profits!!!

The conspiracy
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All the dogcatchers and their “official sponsors” quickly realized that if the new legislative proposals (PL912) will be presented to the ADP in spring 2008, the new law will become definitive, as approved by the Senate.Their only chance was to postpone and prolong this indefinitely. This would have given the dogcatchers plenty of time to still operate as before , the solution wouldn’t have been applied and it would present later on as the perfect excuse to suggest euthanasia of all strays as the number of strays would have grown even more.Their evil plan worked, as the new legislative proposal (PL912) still has yet to be presented to ADP since 2008!

ANSVA , DSVSA and other public institutions
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Although euthanasia had been abolished, majority of public administrations across country continued the mass killing of strays , using the most absurd justifications: suddenly, all strays became terminally ill (backed up by false documents produced by corrupt state employees)or using “personal interpretation ” of the law. All this was going on with the silent approval of the official services for animal protection, just as corrupt as the public administrations: ANSVSA and DSVSA.

Thousands of strays were captured, the “lucky”ones being detained sometimes for a couple of weeks before their death in the official “shelters”: filthy ,cold , very small cages, lying in their own feces, deprived of food and water, beaten and abused daily and then finally killed by untrained or uneducated dogcatchers, in the most cruel ways possible, suffering the most unimaginable pain till the last breath…

Anybody that get the chance to see some of their official evidence of these atrocities would be appalled by the gruesome mistakes used to justify what they did .

As many of these dogcatchers are paid by the local authorities , their only “enemy” are the NGO’s. Therefore, they are doing their best to keep the NGO’s as far away as possible, refusing any collaboration or cooperation with them.

The Almighty dogcatcher and his dark amendments....
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About a year later, once a few people started complaining about their dirty business, the almighty dogcatchers across the country started to be concerned and thus considered it’s the perfect time to start changing the law according to their interest.

The “chosen” one to formulate the new proposal of law was no other than Barbulescu Flavius ( famous for killing 30000 dogs in 8 years and having at least 6 legal complaints against him) , supported by Simona Panaitescu. Both of then had the “blessing” of Brasov’s mayer, George Cripcaru, also known as “Dracula of dogs”,prominent member of PDL (Democratic-Liberal Party) and a man used to manipulate the laws according to his best interests.

Barbulescu’s new law proposal included mass euthanasia of strays , banning the NGO’s any involvement in the dogcatchers or municipal shelters activity, obstructing adoptions by implementing severe fines for people feeding or taking care of strays on the streets

The evil plan
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Once Barbulescu’s “masterpiece” was finished, they needed someone to make it public. And who better than Bucharest’s prefect , Mihai Atanasoaiei , well known for his embarrassing public speeches and appearances. After that, the game moved on to Elena Udrea and Sulfina Barbu.

Zanfir Iorgus (PDL) :”The best solution is spay/neuter…or Euthanasia…or better yet let the mayors decide!”

Sulfina Barbu:” I suggest that it should be mandatory by law that local administrations and NGO’S became partners..” …..that was all she had to say after all NGO’s representatives explained and documented 453,17 arguments against the reintroduction of mass euthanasia of strays. They have showed her in ever way possible why mass killing of dogs is inefficient,inhumane, absurd, very expensive and not cost-effective compared to the alternative,against WHO’s guidelines: They also showed her how during the last 7 years the officials did nothing to solve this problem the right way, how they delayed everything , didn’t pass the law , abused the power they had, continued the killings and misused the taxpayers money…..

Manipulation
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Their biggest weapon is the manipulation of the population through mass-media. Their “servant” PRO TV always “deliver” twisting the facts and lying out in the open without remorse, just as long as they can blame something on the strays (e.g. The case of a woman attacked by dogs in a private yard, because she entered the premises at night, without any authorization, presented to the public as a woman killed by strays. The same type of story happened again, a drunk woman was attacked by dogs who had owners, and they also blamed the strays for her death. Even after the official reports from the investigations were released, PRO TV never rectified their stories , apologized, on the contrary, everyday they try to find more things that they can blame the strays for…

And PRO TV is not the only one. There are other tv stations and newspapers in the same boat.

Elena Udrea
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She is one of the biggest supporters of euthanasia of all strays, as a future candidate for the Mayor of Bucharest. She encourages the passing of the anti-strays law, claiming that this is the “American” model, but failing to realize the HUGE differences between the two countries when it comes to animal welfare.

SUMMARY/RECAP
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2007: The Senate votes PL 912/2007 that replaces the mass killing of strays with spay/neuter/release

2008: Animal Protection Law prohibits mass euthanasia.

ADP from Deputies Chamber blocks the discussion of this law for 3 YEARS!!!

Meanwhile, local authorities continue the killing and totally ignore the solution:spay/neuter/release.They are officially breaking the law and try to cover for all who do that also. 

In Brasov, a German organization offered to spa/ neuter all the city’s strays but were completely ignored by local authorities.

The only town were the mayor actually used spay/ neuter/release programs was Oradea, and the results are showing: in 6 years the population of strays decreased 8 times.

So after 3 long years of blocking PL912 from being approved, the politicians want now to “solve” the stray problem by mass killing!!!

Knowing very well that euthanasia is not a solution, they all want that as it is a guarantee for more dirty money to be made in the future from “the stray business”. Spay/neuter/ return programs would only jeopardize their source of dirty profits!

On the 1st of March 2011, Sulfina Barbu sneaked in Atanasoaiei’s new proposals of law(modifying PL912) which granted the mayors the liberty to decide on euthanasia or not. Animal lovers were protesting outside the Parliament’s Building unnoticed…

On the 7th of March 2011 , when ADP tried to vote the “new and improved “PL912 with Atanasoaiei’s proposals, a miracle happened:the deputies decided to return the law to the Commission to allow the NGO’ s and Animal Welfare groups to be consultants and the law to be re-discussed after 3 weeks. 

This delay “caught by surprised” a lot of mayors too, who already counted on the mass euthanasia to be approved and were “ready” to take action, having everything ready do to “the job”. And strangely enough , during these 3 weeks more and more cases of strays shot , poisoned, beaten to death, burned , abused and tortured appear every day , all over the country.
 


 

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USA: ‘Mercy for Animals’ Expose Calves Being Killed With Pickaxe and Hammers at E6 Cattle Ranch in Hart, TX. At the Same Time, States Introduce Legislation To Imprison Those Who Obtain This Kind of Footage – The USA Has Got Things Wrong; Big Time !!!

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

Undercover footage from Mercy for Animals at E6 Cattle Ranch in Hart, TX.

*** WARNING – VERY GRAPHIC ANIMAL KILLING FOOTAGE ***

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUakLh0MPJc

(VERY GRAPHIC – be warned)

 http://www.merchantcircle.com/business/E6.Cattle.Co.Hart.TX.806-647-3744  

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Whilst at the very same time states appear to be trying to stop this kind of footage being obtained; a kind of ‘go ahead and kill calves with a pick axe’ mentality:

Article below and picture copied directly from Health Freedom Alliance.

http://healthfreedoms.org/2011/04/14/more-states-create-anti-whistleblower-bills/

Here we go again! If you thought the recent legislation to criminalize those who film or photograph farm activity in states like Florida and Iowa is coincidental, it’s not. Similar bills are in process in Idaho and Minnesota, and other states are considering legislative action as well. Giant corporations like Monsanto are throwing money behind the Iowa version and possibly more in order further secure their “crop operations.”

Minnesota is at least the fourth state to introduce anti-whistleblower legislation. They got it from Iowa who got it from Florida. In the Minnesota bill, even just possessing undercover documentation of farm operations would be illegal. How they can enforce a law like that without invading people’s privacy, I do not know. These bills threaten to punish anyone who dares to highlight questionable behavior towards animals, seed and produce, sanitation and employees.

“We think it would be an important deterrent tool in our toolbox against trespassers,” says Daryn McBeth, president of the Minnesota Agri-Growth Council.

People, there are already strict trespassing and theft laws. Big Ag has all the legal recourse needed to sue or punish those who obtain footage of their operations, so why don’t they? Can you imagine dragging an activist into court and saying to the judge, “Look, he found out we were throwing live chickens into a grinder and put it on the internet. This violates my intellectual property rights!” No, their solution to the bad PR is slapping the whistleblowers with a major felony and throwing them in a cage with rapists, murders, and armed robbers. So they make the act of discovery into a crime to preclude such discoveries instead of accounting for their crimes, which, by the way, they believe to be perfectly acceptable industry standards.

Since when is crying foul on criminal behavior like animal abuse and breaking regulations considered a crime? Any law that imprisons you by superceding your constitutional rights is null and void. But that isn’t going to touch Mr. Policeman when you explain as he hauls you away. Laws are laws, intentions are irrelevant to a judge. That’s what makes them so dangerous to your rights. You may think it only applies to those overzealous “tree hugger” types, but no, it means you too!

Ironically, citizens are considered heroic when they turn in their neighbor or call in an anonymous tip to stop criminal behavior and abuse. Yes, even animal abuse! But boy, if you actually gather substantial evidence in a Big Ag operation and show the public when officials won’t listen – you go to prison for a long, long time.

These bills remove the pea from the whistle should you witness something vile, whereas before you at least had the recourse of sharing with others. This encourages more abominable behavior; with more cover up, such actions are sanctioned, and the perpetrators can rest easy knowing the whistleblowers are silenced in prison.

When USDA backed Big Ag operations are in violation of current standards, how do we know? Who cares – the USDA? Whistleblowers are often the only window for the public, and when embarrassing information is released, it often leads to raised standards. On a smaller scale, it works with the restaurant industry. Get an embarrassing (public) write up about cockroach infestations and suddenly the kitchen is overhauled, no expense is spared, and sanitation thrives in order to reassure those paying customers who like a fresh clean salad, hold the mouse poop.

When these bills first arrived on the scene there was a lot of backlash, but our concern is that with more and more cropping up and some scaling back punishment, they will be more readily accepted by the public. Some reporters called the scale backs, “more reasonable.” Why? First amendment rights are still going in the grinder, citizens will still go to prison.

The running theme here is force, force, force even if it’s currently undetectable. Forceful legislation from senators, funds from Big Ag and Monsanto to strengthen the force, the force of multiple states following suit, force from the ensuing law enforcement – force of slamming the door on the face of public scrutiny.

It’s going to be increasingly difficult to catch these viral bills, inform others, and take action when they keep rearing their ugly heads like a nationwide game of whack-a-mole. But with such replicated force, much like a virus, you can see it is more important than ever to do something.

States & Bill Numbers:

Florida, SB1246 (Health Freedoms petition coming soon)

Iowa HF431

Minnesota, S.F. No. 1118

Idaho HB166 *Part of their Right To Farm laws, this one would preclude “nuisance” suits from the public.

Update: If you have information of your state’s similar bill, please email tips@healthfreedoms.org and try to include bill number if possible, bill link, and/or source article.

~Health Freedoms

Related Articles:

http://healthfreedoms.org/2011/04/11/monsanto-cash-helped-fund-bill-to-stifle-whistleblowers-in-iowa/

http://healthfreedoms.org/2011/03/28/your-guide-to-the-illegal-farm-photos-bill/

http://healthfreedoms.org/2011/03/24/big-ag-lobbies-to-make-it-illegal-to-secretly-film-animal-abuse-iowa/

http://healthfreedoms.org/2011/03/17/florida-lawmaker-wants-to-make-farm-photos-illegal-2/

Other Sources Cited:

http://www.agweek.com/event/article/id/18230/

http://www.idahostatesman.com/2011/04/12/1602672/bill-would-ban-video-of-minn-farming.html

http://www.startribune.com/local/119690504.html

http://www.startribune.com/politics/119690504.html

Five Years In Jail For Exposing Animal Abuses In Minnesota

If a new Minnesota bill becomes law, anyone caught going undercover to film or record animal abuses at a factory farm could be sentenced to five years in jail.

Minnesota Joins Iowa And Florida In Criminalizing Animal Activists….this is wrong!

http://www.care2.com/causes/animal-welfare/blog/five-years-in-jail-for-exposing-animal-abuses-in-minnesota/

http://justonemorepet.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/undercover-humane-investigations-to-be-banned-in-minnesota/

http://blacktalkradionetwork.com/profiles/blogs/welfare-five-years-in-jail-for?xg_source=activity

http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_22815.cfm

http://community.thenest.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/51871185.aspx

http://www.planetoceanalliance.org/forum/showthread.php/13811-Undercover-Animal-Abuse-Video-Terrorism-Must-Stop

http://www.capwiz.com/aspca/issues/alert/?alertid=37364501&type=ST

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Serbia: Backa Topola Latest (15/04/11) – French Organisation ‘Respectons’ Have Now Taken Overall Control; Aim To Rehome Dogs In Europe – Shelter Improvements To Be Undertaken In Meantime. Donation Information Provided At End Of This Post.

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

Subject: Shelter Oaza – Extreme urgency

Dear friends,

The initiative ‘Respectons’, alerted by the Brigitte Bardot Foundation, would like to direct your attention towards a tragic event in the shelter of Etela Merk, in Backa Topola, Serbia. In March 2011 the shelter was consumed by fire – Mrs. Merk sadly died in the blaze, as did a number of her animals.

The initiative Respectons was well familiar with this shelter, which, for some time, had done poorly. Respectons assisted with sterilisations, food, medical supplies and foreign adoptions.

Today the situation has deteriorated considerably, and the dogs must be rescued. Respectons, in cooperation with the Brigitte Bardot Foundation, is seeking a solution.

On April 1st 2011 27 cats have been taken into the custody of the Serb initiative Help Animals.

30 cats had died in the blaze and several of those had later been eaten by the dogs after the fire. There are between 280 and 300 dogs still on location now – they are not sterilised, and the Serb Republic is charged with finding a solution.

A small local initiative has taken 48 dogs to the shelter Kacha in Belgrade – this shelter would like to adopt these dogs out to France eventually. Every day several dogs die in the abandoned shelter of Backa Topola. The dogs are on their own some 22 hours a day; this leads to fighting resulting in injuries or animals being killed. At the same time people take new dogs to the shelter – it is unlocked and therefore open to anybody – all the time, keeping the number of animals at a stable high. It is anarchy.

The buildings are burnt-down, food is distributed all over the place – it looks like a dump. The amount of food, though, seems to be sufficient due to the help from France.

One person, being paid by French donations, brings food every day using his half-starved horse. There is no road to the shelter – it can only be reached on foot or by horse, as the land is very uneven.

This situation of complete anarchy cannot be allowed to continue. Indeed the owner of the shelter and Land on which it stands would like to sell the property. The plan of the shelter Oaza in Serbia, which is being supported by Respectons and the Brigitte Bardot Foundations, is to take on 30 of those dogs from Backa Topola in the near future and shelter them in “Park no 12” (???).

If there were a means to fence in more land it would be possible to house another 70 dogs, which would bring the number of rescued dogs to 100.

The only solution would be to distribute the remaining dogs between Germany, Belgium and France and close down Backa Topola – which never has functioned properly in the first place. It is not possible to continue to run this shelter because of its location, the lack of proper access and of competent personnel.

Mr. Pizurica, head of the veterinary authority of Vojvodina, who was contacted by our vet Mr. Strecko Radojic, has confirmed that the county of Vojvodina cannot take over the administration and running of the shelter due to shortage of funds – there is not even sufficient money for sterilisations. Only 30 dogs, of the several hundred residing in the shelter, are actually sterilised.

He and his team stand ready to assist with a possible transfer of the dogs abroad and will draw up the necessary paperwork for the first 40 dogs as well as all following. He will do the necessary rabies vaccination and microchipping, and he hopes that the shelter can be emptied as soon as possible. Patrick Sacco will also be on location next week to help with the next transfer.

There are currently 27 dogs in „Park no 12“, who will be distributed to other parks of the shelter. After that 40 dogs can be transferred from Backa Topola. The transfers will be arranged in groups of approx. 40 dogs – depending on successful adoptions abroad.

Note – SAV have NO access to this map referenced:

See map of the shelter in attachment

Whole area (blue zone)

150 meters of wire mesh (70 meters already existing) (A)

1 flight of stairs to be built of concrete (flank of a hill) (C)

1 Portal (C) to be installed

1 cover for well (B)

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9500 €

Sight protection from road (A) to be installed over wire mesh

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1200 €

10 niches (Kennels??) (D)

2.20m by 1 m with 3 doors (6 dogs) – for 60 dogs

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3500 €

Ditch and canalisation for fresh water coming in and waste water going out

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500 €

1 mast with electric cable for lighting

(not urgent)

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Total = 14700 €

Also taken into consideration must be the rising amount of food needed (+100 dogs) as well as the wages of employees. Raise 3 wages of currently EUR 330.-  by EUR 50.- or take on an additional employee?

The search for homes in Germany, Belgium and France has begun now. It is important to note that every adopted dog needs a European pet passport, a serological test done and needs to undergo sanitary examination. This will amount to approx. EUR 120.- per dog (adoption fee?).

The initiative Respectons asks you for your assistance with this rescue effort.

Patrick Sacco travels to Serbia next week to start organisation and coordination of the work. We count on you and thank you in advance for every help you are able to render.

Direct donations to Respectons can be made via the following link to aid with their current on-going work at Backa Topola:

For those who want to send money to help the dogs saved from the fire in Serbia, please find attached a file with the bank references.

RIP-Respectons

Thank you very much in advance.
Best regards,
 
Régine

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Past SAV links associated with this issue:

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2011/04/06/serbia-latest-photos-from-backa-topola-all-animals-are-safe-and-being-cared-for-but-they-need-to-be-found-permanenet-homes-in-mainland-europe-the-government-is-doing-nothing-to-help-previou/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2011/04/11/serbia-backa-topola-donations-can-be-made-directly-to-the-french-organisation-respectons-who-are-working-at-the-facility-donation-links-provided-in-the-following-post/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/serbia-backa-topola-new-donation-link-to-help-the-dogs-at-the-shelter/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/serbia-010411-further-backa-topola-update-from-zlata-at-help-animals/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/serbia-help-animals-belgrade-can-you-help-them/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/serbia-backa-topola-rescue-stray-dog-and-cat-shelter-owner-killed-by-fire-because-she-could-not-pay-for-electricity-and-most-probably-non-implementation-of-existing-animal-welfare-laws-by-reg/

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Romania / Germany: 16/04/11 – Protest Against Romanian Stray Animal Killings To Be Held In BERLIN.

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

Dear all,

Tomorrow, SATURDAY April 16th, a protest against killing the dogs in Romania will be in BERLIN.

Everyone who can be there will bring a plus value to the cause.

The television Antena 1 from Romania will also be there.

Thank you very much to the organizers and to all of you who fight for animals.

Sincerely

Carmen Arsene

http://www.tierhilfe-kowaneu.com/

Wir kämpfen weiter für die Straßenhunde

Am Samstag, 16. April 2011  

von 14.00–17.00 Uhr

am Platz der Republik 1 in BERLIN

(direkt am Deutschen Bundestag)

Straßenhunde haben kein Recht auf Leben in Rumänien!

Leider hat die rumänische Regierung am 5. April 2011 beschlossen, dass alle streunenden Straßenhunde getötet werden dürfen – egal von wem, und wie!!

Was das für die Hunde bedeutet kann sich jeder vorstellen, es wird einfach nur auf bestialische Weise GEMORDET!!!!!

Grausamkeit und Brutalität gegen streunende Tiere, und unermessliches Leid im gesamten Land werden an der Tagesordnung sein. 

 Die Städte und Kommunen erhalten mit dem neuen Gesetz von der Regierung einen Freibrief zur sofortigen Tötung aller Hunde in den städtischen Tierheimen,und zur Jagd mit organisierten Brigaden auf alle Straßenhunde. Das Schicksal Hunderttausender unschuldiger Hunde wird von einer einzigen Person und dessen persönlicher Sichtweise abhängen, dem Bürgermeister. Diese Entscheidung über Leben und Tod würde zudem nicht kontrolliert, weder was den Inhalt der jeweiligen Regelung betrifft noch den Vollzug.

Gern können auch Plakate mitgebracht werden.

http://www.tierhilfe-kowaneu.com/demo-in-berlin-16-4-2011/
Danke,
Tierhilfe KowaNeu
www.tierhilfe-kowaneu.com
E-Mail: sachspenden@gmx.de

 

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Two Very Important Petitions To Be Signed Please – And A Turkish (Future EU Member State ?) Dog Beating Video You Will Want To See Only Once; Even If You Can Watch It Once !

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

Two Very Important petitions to be signed please. 

Both of these need to be signed INTERNATIONALLY as much as possible.

Please note – the video of the Turkish dog beating is disgusting. 

You will only want to see it once, but please watch it with our warning in mind.  Then sign the petition.  These people are trying to get into the EU as members; and knowing how pathetic the ‘Enlargement commission’ of the EU is, they will be allowed to join. 

Yet more animal abusers in the EU; so even more justification for the EU to get up off its butt and wake up to introducing Union wide legislation for all stray animals.

Will they ? – no; they have more ‘important’ things to do than saving animal lives – like a nations financial status and the rest.  Pathetic !!

Please crosspost; especially to MEPs – ask them to watch the dog beating video and then justify to you why Turkey will be such a great member state to welcome into the ‘club’.

And to think that here again, just like Serbia; the EU will be trying so hard to welcome the animal abusers into the EU ‘Club’.

Petition 1    Turkey – Dog Beating Video

Video Link –

*** WARNING, THIS VIDEO SHOWS EXTREME ANIMAL ABUSE – DOG BEATING OF THE EXTREME ***

http://video.haberturk.com/haber/video/hayvanseverler-arasinda-infiale-neden-olan-o-video/49697

The petition can be signed by visiting the following:

http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/tierquaelerinalan

The news from Turkey about this is:

I am so ashamed of our legal system. The guy that did this apparently did some other times as well. And our judicial system only gave him around 150$ of penalty.. and that is thanks to our Animal Right Federation Representative (HAYTAP) in the area.
The problem is that if you own an animal, you can kill or torture him and the law will not grant you any other penalties than this one, as the animal is considered your own property. So you get easily away with it.
We have been working so hard to change this…
Maybe some EU/US active help will make them change their mind?
 
 
Petition 2    Petition against ‘Harrods’ selling Puppies (UK)

Worldwide signatures needed please

Petition Link:   http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/harrods-stop-selling-puppies.html

Background (Preamble):

No responsible, caring, ethical breeder would sell their puppies to a pet shop therefore the vast majority of pet shop puppies come from puppy farms. These might well be licensed breeders but their dogs are often kept in very poor conditions with a very poor level of care.

The breeding stock does not normally have the relevant health checks for hereditary diseases that a responsible breeder would do to ensure that healthy puppies grow into healthy adult dogs.

There is also the stress involved and the risk of infection through transporting puppies from their place of birth to the place of sale and then keeping them in a very unnatural environment.

Petition: We the undersigned call on Harrods to set an example as they are such a high profile store and stop selling puppies.

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Serbia: Backa Topola – Donations Can Be Made Directly To The French Organisation ‘Respectons’ Who Are Working At The Facility. Donation Links Provided In The Following Post.

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

Here (11/04/11) is the latest regarding Backa Topola.  The French organisation ‘Respectons’ is providing help and support for the animals from BT.  If you wish to donate money to the BT campaign to help the animals, then this would be a very good route to take. 

It would seem that Paypal CAN be used on the Respectons site.

Financial donations can be made directly to Respectons as an alternative way of giving money. 

Please click on ‘Faire un don’ on their website (http://www.respectons.org/) to make a donation. 

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The following is a message from Zlata at ‘Help Animals’ in Belgrade:

I just want to inform you, that the French organisation http://www.respectons.org/ contacted me and they want to take 30-50 dogs from Backa Topola.

Help Animals has been cooperating with this organisation for years and we have had some joint actions.

They also finance “Oaza”, shelter for dogs in Belgrade.  The dogs will be placed in this shelter, where they will be prepared for fostering in some EU countries. They also work with the Foundation BB.

They need help in preparing these dogs to be transported, for example Titer antibodies.

 It would be nice to support this action.

Here is a contact address    maya.alfirev@gmail.com

If they succeed in fostering the first group of dogs, then they would continue to take the dogs from Backa Topola.

Kind regards,
Help animals
Zlata Korjenic

www.helpanimals.org.rs

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Romania; ** LATEST – Home Now Found 08/04/11** URGENT APPEAL ! – Come On Folks; We Have Till End 09/04/11 To Confirm ‘Prince’ Can Be Moved Out of Romania Next Weekend – Can You Help Find Him a New Forever Home in Austria, Germany, Belgium or The Netherlands ?

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

 

BREAKING NEWS!!!!!  2200hrs GMT 08/04/11   BREAKING NEWS!!!!! 

We have just had this in from Chrissy at RAA in London:

A home has been found!! 

A lady in Denmark that’s linked to my RAA Facebook page crossposted Prince’s details and a good friend of her cousins would love to adopt him.  She has a female dog already, horses and works from home.  She’s happy to travel over 300 miles to collect him too! 

Just need to sort a home check and then all being well – he’ll be off next weekend to a new beginning.

I’ve been panicking all day getting nowhere and then this at the 11th hour! 

Chrissy – RAA Uk.

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‘Prince’ Video Link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uNLq8kpPqU&feature=youtu.be 

We are putting out a special urgent appeal to help our friends at Romania Animal Aid, who are based here in the Uk. 

URGENT – Please crosspost this appeal to all your animal buddies throughout Europe; Thank You – SAV.

Please e mail Chrissy at RAA directly if you can help – chrissy@romaniaanimalaid.co.uk  

We need to get ‘Prince’ on the transport consignment for his new home and out of Romania, which has been organised for next weekend – 16th / 17th April.  Time is short; there is just a week to do it, but hopefully a new forever home can be sorted for him well before then.

This transport run will be leaving Romania next weekend (16th or 17th), travelling through Austria and Germany towards the border of Belgium and Holland.  

This transport space can only be held until tomorrow, 9th;  so we are praying for a super-fast reaction. Maybe it will be love at first sight for someone – he is a very handsome chap after all!!

‘Prince’ is approx. 1 year old, he is neutered, chipped, vaccinated and already has a passport to travel!    He is ready and his bag is packed for that new home.

Prince has just 3 legs, as he lost his left rear leg in an accident; but otherwise he’s in really good health.

A video has been made especially of Prince, which you can see by clicking on the following link or that given above:

Video  Link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uNLq8kpPqU&feature=youtu.be

Again, please e mail Chrissy at RAA directly if you can help – chrissy@romaniaanimalaid.co.uk  

RAA web site = www.romaniaanimalaid.co.uk

 

 

 

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