Serbia: More Petition Support and Letters to Authorities Required – Please Act – See Below for Details.

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SAV Comment: Please ensure you sign the petition below and cross post to all your friends and contacts – Thanks.

 

Dear supporters,

I, again, have to send a short reminder to everybody who signed this petition to please FORWARD it to your friends, family, colleagues and anybody who loves and cares about the animals.

The fact is that the city, kill shelter WILL BE OPENED again while the 550 dogs from a no-kill, private shelter WILL BE MOVED to kill pounds across Serbia.

I am sure people who LOVE animals will SIGN this petition to give these animals a voice BEFORE the horror pictures of inhumane treatment of animals in Subotica’s city shelter start circulating and then it WILL BE too late.

We are AGAINST the opening of a city, kill shelter and AGAINST the closure of a no-kill, private shelter “Alex”.

Please, also send direct email to the authorities who btw still haven’t responded to this petition.

Sample letter and email addresses are provided here: http://love-is-an-animal.blogspot.nl/2014/04/authorities-attempt-to-close-alex.html  

Thank you very much!
Andrea

 

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This message was sent by Andrea Sreiber using the Change.org system.

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City shelter "Death Camp" will be reopened again

 

 

 

 

Australia: Gutless PM Tony Abbott Fails To Act In The Defence Of Australian Animals. Just Like Gillard Before Him.

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SAV Comment:

What we in the UK (and the rest of the civilized world) have known for a very long time:

Tony Abbott and Julia Gillard – Two Animal Abusing Australian Prime Ministers.

Neither who have had the guts to do anything about such a disgusting business of live animal exports.  Gutless fools who just let animals suffer for their own political satisfaction.

Oh how we feel for the poor citizens of Australia – to have an animal abuser like Abbott at the helm now.

 

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From Animals Australia

http://www.banliveexport.com/gaza 

As the sun goes down in the Gaza Strip tonight, Australian animals stand waiting… and we do not know their fate. But based on evidence from our recent investigations, I fear the worst.

What you do in the next 3 minutes will help us send the strongest possible message that Australians will not tolerate this industry any longer… and on behalf of the thousands of animals abandoned to live export cruelty yet again — I am pleading with you to be their voice today.

ABC’s 7.30 program last night aired a damning exposé revealing an even darker side of this industry: allegations of corruption and criminal activity have now emerged.

But what our latest investigation has uncovered will shock you even more.

Actually, ‘latest’ sounds like it was one investigation. In reality, on almost a weekly basis over past months we have lodged 6 additional complaints with the Department of Agriculture showing that the nightly abuse of Australian cattle in Gaza… continues.

With the help of our brave young local investigator in Gaza, we have presented case after case, evidence upon evidence, to the government pleading for urgent action. Yet night after night, workers terrified of ‘wild’ Australian cattle have been resorting to violence within the abattoirs of Gaza. We’ve seen animals with leg tendons slashed, being stabbed in their eye, and being abused in ways which are too traumatic to describe.

I don’t tell you this to shock you, Maria. In fact, I strongly urge you not to watch footage from our investigation because it is simply too distressing. But I’m telling you this because relying on the regulatory process to end the cruelty has failed.

That brings us to you, and why you’re reading this:
THIS NEEDS TO BE MADE PUBLIC.

Will you spare 3 minutes today to help achieve justice for animals?

Knowing how confronting the evidence is, we have gone to extra lengths to ensure that you can take action on our website today without needing to see any graphic images if you choose not to.

To the live export industry, these animals are considered ‘products’. To us, they are ‘living beings’ deserving of compassion and respect. I know that when Australians discover what animals have been suffering in Gaza there will be a groundswell of compassion and action on their behalf — one that our government cannot ignore.

After taking action please share this urgent alert with your friends, family — anyone who like us wants a kinder, more compassionate world where cruelty is not excused as the cost of doing business.

For the animals, thank you,

Lyn White
Campaign Director

http://www.banliveexport.com/features/largest-live-exporter-questionable-track-record.php

 

P.S. With the live export ‘assurance’ system failing to protect animals from the worst abuses, your help is needed to stop this from continuing and achieve justice for animals. It only takes 3 minutes to make a difference. Please click here to take urgent action today.

The track record of the world’s largest live exporter, Livestock Shipping Services, raises big questions about why they’ve been allowed to keep their export licence.

It’s Friday, 4th April 2014. The ship called Bader III sets out from Fremantle Port on the long sea voyage to Jordan and Israel. On board are 10,000 cattle and thousands of sheep. The exporter is Livestock Shipping Services (LSS).

A day earlier, LSS General Manager, Garry Robinson, complained to the media about this ship being delayed as a result of ‘handful of animals’ in Gaza. Robinson did not express concern that this ‘handful’ of cattle, who had been exported by LSS and ‘leaked’ from their supply chain, were once again suffering terrifying and prolonged deaths both in LSS’s ‘approved’ and in non-approved abattoirs in Gaza.

No accountability was expressed about the fact that this situation was LSS’s legal responsibility or that it was both predictable and preventable. After all, the company was aware that Australian cattle in Gaza had been subjected to sickening abuse last October — including at their approved abattoir, which had months earlier passed an LSS-funded audit despite not meeting required standards.

As a result, rather than a ‘handful’ of animals, every one of the 4,631 Australian bulls sent into Gaza since November would be brutally slaughtered.

With a dire situation for cattle in Gaza ongoing, and under investigation for five serious breaches of regulations, it seemed inconceivable that LSS would be granted a further export permit.

But five weeks after the Department of Agriculture was first provided with evidence that the horrific slaughter of Australian bulls in Gaza had continued unabated they granted the company implicated a further export permit.

Only a couple of days after the Bader III sailed for Israel, in a filthy slaughterhouse in Gaza, another Australian bull was brutally slaughtered in breach of Australian regulations, including having his eye stabbed to blind him. Around him lay the bodies of other Australian bulls who would have suffered similarly shocking deaths.

The dreadful suffering of these animals was predictable and preventable. The Exporter Supply Chain Assurance System (ESCAS) was put in place to prevent the worst abuses to exported animals. But with no Australian government oversight in importing countries, its ability to do so rests with exporters facing consequences for breaches, including suspension or loss of export licence.

Tonight, once again, Australian bulls will be brutally slaughtered in Gaza. Tonight the export company implicated in these breaches of regulations continues to be allowed to export, and has tens of thousands of animals aboard the Bader III once again, entrusted to its ‘care’.

 

http://banliveexport.com/gaza#takeactionplace  

TAKE ACTION NOW

That shocking abuse of Australian cattle continues in Gaza five months after first being reported, is damning.

The good news, is that after receiving evidence from Animals Australia in November, the Australian Government ceased granting export permits to Gaza.The bad news, is that this was no help to the thousands of cattle who were en-route at the time. Since then, at least 4,631 exported cattle have been sent to the slaughterhouses of Gaza.

This ongoing cruelty could have been avoided had exporters been complying with regulations. Tragically, the Australian Government’s live export ‘assurance’ system is providing anything but ‘assurance’. The truth is that nobody — not live exporters, nor the Australian government — can guarantee that animals in the live export trade won’t be brutally killed.

It doesn’t have to be this way. Live export is valued at only 0.3 percent of national exports. And most sheep and cattle farmers aren’t involved with the industry. Not only that — a phase out of this cruel trade will create more jobs for Australians and benefit the economy.

Take action today, and help spare an animal from suffering this brutal fate. Ask your MP to support a phase out of live exports — for jobs, for the economy, and most importantly, for the animals.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

USA: Let Monarchs Fly !

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Monarch butterflies are in crisis, and we must take immediate action to protect them!

Less than 20 years ago, an astounding 1 billion monarchs migrated to Mexico for the winter.

This year, a mere fraction of that — just 33.5 million — made the journey.

Why? In large part it’s because industrial agriculture is killing off the native milkweed on which monarchs depend with a new generation of potent herbicides.

Tell the EPA to adopt tough new restrictions on the weed killers that are wiping out monarchs!

By placing commonsense limits on Big Ag’s rampant use of herbicides like glyphosate — marketed as Roundup by Monsanto — the EPA could dramatically increase the monarch’s chance for survival.

But the EPA is unlikely to do that unless it hears from hundreds of thousands of us!

Monarchs can’t live without milkweed — it is the only plant on which they lay their eggs.

What’s at stake here? One of the most astounding and extraordinary migrations on the planet — a true natural wonder.

Each year, as they have for countless generations, North American monarchs undertake an epic journey, flittering upwards of 3,000 miles across the U.S. and Canada to just a relative few wintering grounds, including Mexico’s Sierra Madre mountains.

But as industrial agriculture has ramped up its use of genetically engineered crops resistant to weed killers like glyphosate, it has also dramatically escalated its use of herbicides — and monarch populations have plunged.

This is the ninth year in a row that the population of monarchs wintering in Mexico has fallen below its long-term average, and this year it hit an all-time low.

Please tell EPA the time to act is now!

Thank you for joining NRDC at this critical moment in our fight to save the monarchs.

Sincerely,

Frances Beinecke

President
Natural Resources Defense Council

Serbia: Prijava 20.3.14 Specif Sredine.

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Nasa Prijava  posledica krsenja clana 143.Zak o vet i  clana 76.Zak o dobrobiti od strane Ministarstva poljoprivrede, nalazi se u atachmentu.

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 EPAR /Alijansa za zastitu prirode,prava zivotinja i prava ljudi

24000 Subotica,Matka Vukovica,9

Budi vegan-spasi sebe i Planetu

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Romania: The Mask Is Off ‘IREC’ – Please Read Very Interesting Information Via Link Provided.

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We have been sent the following very informative information today – 28/2/14.

Can we ask you please to have a good look at the following site, which we think you will fine very, very interesting.  Please distribute the link as necessary.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/209149022/The-Mask-is-Off-IREC

Message: PLEASE; everybody please join this page and invite friends…it is of PARAMOUNT importance that all those who fight for the right TO LIVE for stray dogs, to UNDERSTAND WHO started the MASS HYSTERIA, and who instigated to HATE towards these animals AND their protectors ( rescuers, animal rights advocate, registered organizations and so on….) These people  from IREC manipulate, and try to gain support from abroad from similar DOGS HATERS groups…with INACCUARTE information...Please also read and share the note in the second link…https://www.facebook.com/pages/NU-grupului-extremist-IREC/727118767321317
http://www.scribd.com/doc/209149022/The-Mask-is-Off-IREC
Please read the NOTE on scribd.

Romania: Take Action Against the Illegal Killing of Public Shelter Dogs.

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***URGENT & IMPORTANT***

PLEASE READ THE SAMPLE LETTER BELOW AND SEND IT BY EMAIL TO THE ROMANIAN EMBASSY IN YOUR COUNTRY AND TO THE AUTHORITIES IN ROMANIA

(all contact details given below).

As we all know, Romanian public shelters have started killing public shelter dogs. What we also know is that they are NOT following the guidelines in new norms by killing the dogs inhumanely and breaching other aspects of the norms! Sadly, the local authorities are taking little or no action against this massacre! Hundreds of public shelter dogs in Craiova have been brutally murdered in the last few days!

The shelter manager has confessed that the authorities, in particular DSV was NOT informed prior to the killing!!

IT IS DOWN TO US TO PUT PRESSURE ON THE AUTHORITIES, AS THEY ARE IGNORING THE COMPLAINTS OF LOCAL RESCUERS!!!!

Here is a letter prepared by Irina Pricop, please email this letter to the Romanian embassies in your country and authorities in Romania. We need each and every one of you to send the email and share it with your friends!! I cannot stress the importance and the urgency of this, especially as there are talks of killing all the dogs in Craiova public shelter!!!

PLEASE COPY AND PASTE THIS LETTER AND EMAIL IT ROMANIAN EMBASSIES AND AUTHORITIES AND SHARE WIDELY!!!

SAMPLE LETTER TO COPY AND SEND

Attn of…….(please insert the relevant name/title)

2013 was for all of us, signatory citizens of the present protest letter, the darkest year we have ever had to go through : an unfortunate event, as the death of a little innocent child neglected by his family and thus found dead on a closed private property in Bucharest where supposedly he had been bitten by the dogs living therein, determined the Parliament to rapidly and without any prior investigations and/or consultations, approve and send to enter in force a law that allows the local public authorities to decide the fate of the stray dogs.

We can understand the concern of the Romanian Parliament regarding the safety of the Romanian citizens but, at the same time, we must emphasize that scenes of public violence involving animals, including shooting animals in the street, massive killings performed inside the public shelters without the compliance of the provisions of the law, harassment of animal activists, etc. should also concern the Romanian politicians as such acts have an enormous negative psychological impact on both children and adults, leading to social hate and discrimination.

In this very moment, several cases of abuses were reported and also revealed in public shelters all over the country. The case of the Breasta shelter is only one of many other similar. Dogs are cruelly killed and not humanely euthanized according to the provisions of the law and to the recommendations of the National College of the Romanian Veterinarians (CNMVR), the provisions of the Norms regarding the distance adoption of the animals are arbitrarily applied by the local councils and in many cases, are also rejected as solution for solving the issue regarding the living costs for the animals, volunteers are not allowed to properly take care of the animals, they are themselves verbally and in some cases also physically abused by the shelters’ employees, the provisions regarding the identification and the proper registration of the animals as well as those regarding the spaying are simply NOT COMPLIED/FOLLOWED AT ALL. 

We ask the vet authorities (ANSVSA, local vet offices – DSV, etc.) as well as the local authorities in each and every city in Romania to demand and make sure that the provisions of the Methodological Norms issued for the application of the Government Ordinance no.155/2001 are decently, fully and completely followed in all the public shelters in Romania. ANSVSA and local vet offices (DSV) initiated and promoted the above mentioned Norms so it is a matter of professionalism, responsibility and ethic to make sure that what they initiated is properly accomplished and complied. We hope that all the complaints made by both natural persons and organizations (NGOs) shall be answered within the legal term and only after a close, detailed and honest investigation was made and due legal and administrative measures have been taken.

We ask the local State Police (including the Community Police that has been very effective and prompt in so many cases of abuse) to continue to support the animal activists, the local organizations for the protection of animals’ rights, each and every responsible citizen that reports cases of abuses happened within the premises of the public shelters, by performing the due investigations and by taking the coercive measures prescribed by the law.

We all understood (even if we don’t entirely agree with it) that this is the law in force and it must be followed. Thus we ask the authorities to support us in all our actions in order to insure the right and full compliance of the public shelter activities with the legal norms in force.

Please copy and paste the above letter and send it by email to your Romanian embassy, PLUS all other Romanian authorities – contact details below:

ROMANIA

Craiova ANSVSA office-dolj@ansvsa.ro  
Complaints Dept reclamatii-dolj@ansvsa.ro

Bucharest ANSVSA office-bucuresti@ansvsa.ro
Complaints Dept reclamatii-bucuresti@ansvsa.ro  

Ploiesti ANSVSA office-prahova@ansv.ro
Complaints Dept reclamatii-prahova@ansvsa.ro

EU -Permanent Representative of Romania – Strasbourg
Address: 64, Allee de la Robertsau, 67.000 Strasbourg, France
Phone: +33 388 370160; +33 388 379221
Fax: +33 388 371670
E-mail: reprocoe@fr.oleane.com
Website: http://coe.mae.ro/; http://ce.mae.ro/
Contact Mr Cristian URSE

EMBASSIES OF ROMANIA

UK
Adresa: Arundel House, 4 Palace Green, Kensington, London W8 4QD
Telefon: +44 207 9379666
Fax: +44 207 9378069
Web:
http://londra.mae.ro; http://london.mae.ro
E-mail: londra@mae.ro   
Ambasador: Dl. Ion JINGA

SWEDEN
Address: Ostermalmsgatan 36, Box 26043, 100 41 Stockholm
Phone: +0046-8-108 603; +0046-8-209 927; +0046-8-209 926;
Phone permanent: +0046-8-108 603
Consular Section: +0046-8-205 674
Web: http://stockholm.mae.ro/
E-mail: stockholm@mae.ro
Ambassador: Mrs. Răduţa Dana MATACHE

GERMANY
Address: Dorotheenstr. 62-66, 10117 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 21239202
Fax: +49 30 21239399
Web: http://berlin.mae.ro/
E-mail: berlin@mae.ro
Phone: +49 30 21239555
E-mail: konsulat.berlin@mae.ro
Ambassador: Mr Lazăr COMĂNESCU

FRANCE
Address: 5, Rue de l’Exposition 75007, Paris CEDEX 07
Phone: +33 1 47051046; +33 1 47051870
Phone Consular Section: +33 1 47052755
Phone secţia economică: +33 1 47051274
Fax: +33 1 45569747
Web: http://paris.mae.ro/
E-mail: secretariat@amb-roumanie.fr
Ambassador: Dl Bogdan MAZURU

NORWAY
Address: Oscars gate 51, 0244 Oslo, Norway
Phone: + 47 – 22 44 15 12 ; + 47 – 22 56 12 37
Fax: + 47 – 22 43 16 74
E-mail: oslo@mae.ro
Web-site: http://oslo.mae.ro

HOLLAND
Phone: 0031 (0)70 322 36 13
Fax: 0031 (0)70 354 15 87
E-mail: roembnl@xs4all.nl

BELGIUM
Address: 105, Rue Gabrielle, 1180 Bruxelles, Belgique
Phone: +32 2 3452680
Fax: +32 2 3462345
Web: http://bruxelles.mae.ro/
E-mail: secretariat@roumanieamb.be
Ambassador: Dl Ştefan-Alexandru TINCA

AUSTRIA
Address: Prinz Eugen Strasse 60, 1040 Wien
Phone: +43 1 5053227, +43 1 5038940, +43 1 5038941, +43 1 5051628
Fax: +43 1 5041462
Web: http://viena.mae.ro/
E-mail: ambromviena@ambrom.at
Ambassador: Mrs Silvia DAVIDOIU

ITALY
Adresă: Via Nicolo Tartaglia 36, 00197 ROMA
Telefon: (0039) 06.808.45.29; 06.807.88.07
Fax: (0039) 06.808.49.95
e-mail: amdiroma@roembit.org
Web: http://roma.mae.ro
Tita CHIŢIGA
Olimpia ŞTEFAN

TURKEY
Adresa: Bükres Sokak No.4, Çankaya, 06680, Ankara
Telefon: 0090.312.466.37.06
Fax: 0090.312.427.15.30
E-mail: romanyabyk@dsl.ttmail.com
Site: http://ankara.mae.ro/
Ambasador: Dl.
Radu ONOFREI

FINLAND
Adresa: Stenbäckinkatu 24, 00250 Helsinki
Telefon: +358 9 2414414; +358 9 2413624
Fax: +358 9 2413272
Web: http://helsinki.mae.ro
E-mail: romania@romania.fi ; romamb@clinet.fi
Ambasador: Dl. Marian Cătălin AVRAMESCU

CZECH REPUBLIC
Adresa: Nerudova 5, Mala Strana, 118 00, Praga 1
Telefon: +420 2 57534210
Telefon secţie consulară: +420 2 57532090
Fax: +420 2 57531017
Web: http://praga.mae.ro/
E-mail:
office@rouemb.cz
Ambasador: Dna. Daniela Anda GRIGORE-GÎTMAN

 

 

 

Romania: Delegation of the European Parliament come face to face with the actual reality of the dog shelters in Romania.

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Delegation of the European Parliament come face to face with the actual reality of the dog shelters in Romania.

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 January 28 – Delegation of the European Parliament to Romania,

face-to-face with the reality of the Dog Shelters owned by City Halls

 After thousands of petitions addressed to the European Parliament from across Europe, which included, in addition to protests against the new law on killing dogs, claims of incidents of abuse against stray dogs and dogs living in deplorable shelter conditions, a delegation of the European Parliament came to Romania to investigate this issue.

 The first visit, on December 4, 2013, was aimed at finding out the opinions of authorities on the situation of the stray dogs in Romania. Thus, during the meetings with representatives ANSVSA (and also with the Mayor of Bucharest), the delegation members were assured, among others, that the law on dog management was a law on “adoption, not on “euthanasia” and the citizens had access to public shelters which were totally transparent and complying with the law!

 On Tuesday, January 28, 2014, the Delegation of the European Parliament consisting of Janusz Wojciechowski, MEP deputy and vice president of the AGRI Committee, Dr. Karolina Tomaszewski , veterinarian and animal welfare consultant, and Magdalena Majerczyk, ECR Political Consultant, returned to Romania in order to inform themselves on the situation directly on site and they also included in their agenda some visits to dog shelters .

 Unfortunately the weather in Romania during the last few days, with heavy snowfall and blizzard, caused the cancellation of some flights, therefore the time available to the delegation was reduced by half a day and only part of their planned agenda was possible; however, their shortened visit did reveal some of the realities of the dog industry.

 The Delegation of the European Parliament was faced with the reality of the dog shelters owned by City Halls.

 At 10:00 a.m., in the public dog shelter located in the village of Saracesti and owned by Slatina City Hall, on whose gate was abusively written “Private Property. Access denied”, there was no caring staff but a gatekeeper who had received orders not to allow anyone to enter.

 To hide what could still be hidden from the European officials, the representatives of the City Hall acted in a more aggravated manner, rather than revealing that the situation behind the locked gates was cruel and illegal. They were embarrassed about sending a representative to the shelter (without whom the entry to the shelter was not allowed). Furthermore, they were embarrassed when I asked if the shelter belonged to the City Hall or was a private shelter. Probably all the interlocutors from the City Hall and the State Patrimony Administration did not know what would be appropriate to answer, so they spoke confusingly and finished with the eternal “I don’ know”.

Finally, we found out from the vice mayor, who was not in a position to say “I don’ know”, that the shelter belonged to Slatina City Hall.

 The dog shelter of Slatina City Hall is managed by the same company, “Iberia Velvet”, the constant partner of the City Hall, charging exorbitant prices settled by Slatina City Hall from the public money.

 However, the “Shelter” which does not meet the minimum legal requirements, where dogs die in starvation, holds a sanitary and veterinary certificate issued by DSVSA (Sanitary- Veterinary and Food Safety Department) of Olt county!

 The lamentable condition of the dogs sheltered there could be deduced even from the gate. Around a special cage where they kept a “protected” purebred dog, the snow was 1 m high and intact, meaning that in the last few days nobody had gone to that dog to feed it.

This is the usual situation if we recall the personal observations and also the statements of those who have visited this “shelter” so far, whereby they noted that, except for exhausted dogs lacking water and food, the cages had nothing, not even water bowls! This cruelty applied to animals, which is shown in statements and photographs, was the reason of the criminal complaint made by FNPA in 2013 against the City Hall and also against Iberia Velvet SRL.

 Moreover, the adoption of a dog from the shelter of Slatina City Hall seems to involve winding steps, without any effective result. In theory, adopting a dog would have been possible if you had first addressed to the City Hall, then to the State Patrimony Administration, where they asked you to fill in a lot of papers, and then you had come to the shelter, accompanied by a representative of the City Hall, to choose a dog.

 The Delegation found that there was a major discrepancy between what the authorities had told them during their first visit and what they found on site during their second visit.

The shelters owned by the City Halls are tightly closed, the animals are in distress and adoptions are made difficult if not impossible.

 The Delegation will prepare a full report on the things observed, which they will submit to the European Parliament and to the European Commission and will also made it public.

 You can find below the letter written by the two MEPs, Janusz Wojciechowski and Andrea Zanoni , containing the conclusions of their first visit from December 4.

 

Letter MEPs Janusz Wojciechowski, Andrea Zanoni about visit 4 December in Romania (1) 

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28. Januar – Delegation des Europäischen Parlaments, in Rumänien,

konfrontiert mit der tatsächlichen Lage der Hundelager der Rathäuser

 Infolge abertausender Gesuche, welche dem Europäischen Parlament aus sämtlichen europäischen Ländern geschickt wurden, wodurch, zusätzlich zu den Protesten in Verbindung mit dem neuen Gesetz über die Tötung der Hunden, auch die Misshandlungen der Straßenhunde und der erbarmslose Zustand der Hunde in den Tierheimen der Rathäuser angezeigt wurde, hat eine Delegation des Europäischen Parlaments Rumänien in Verbindung zu diesem Thema besucht.

 Zielsetzung des ersten Besuchs, der am 4. Dezember stattfand, war die Feststellung der Meinungen der Behörden in Zusammenhang mit der Lage der Straßenhunde in Rumänien. Demzufolge wurden die Mitglieder der Delegation im Rahmen der Gespräche mit den Vertretern der Nationalen Sanitär-, Veterinär- und Lebensmittelsicherheitsbehörde – ANSVSA (aber auch mit dem Bürgermeister der Großstadt Bukarest) unter anderem versichert, dass das Gesetz über die Verwaltung der Hunde die “Adoption” und nicht die “Euthanasie” bezweckt, dass die Einwohner Zugang zu den öffentlichen Heimen haben, dass diese vollständig transparent sind und, dass selbstverständlich die gesetzlichen Voraussetzungen eingehalten werden!

 Dienstag, der 28. Januar, hat die Delegation des Europäischen Parlaments, bestehend aus Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, europäischer Abgeordneter, stellvertretender Vorsitzender des AGRI – Ausschusses, Dr. Karolina TOMASZEWSKA, Tierarzt, Berater für das Wohlbefinden der Tiere, und Magdalena MAJERCZYK, politischer Berater im Rahmen der ECR, erneut Rumänien besucht, um unmittelbar Informationen vor Ort zu erfahren, wobei auf der Agenda in diesem Zusammenhang auch Tierheimbesuche standen.

 Leider hat die Lage in Rumänien in den letzten Tagen, als das Land unter Schnee und Sturm vergraben war, zu Flugausfällen geführt. Aus diesem Grund hatte die Delegation nur einen halben Tag zur Verfügung, so dass nur ein Teil des Programms umgesetzt wurde. Dennoch wurde bei diesem Anlass ein Teil der Realität in der Hundeindustrie festgestellt.

 Die Delegation des Europäischen Parlaments konfrontiert mit der Realität in den Tierheimen der Rathäuser

 10:00 Uhr, in öffentlichem Hundeheim des Rathauses Slatina, gelegen im Dorf Saracesti, auf dessen Tor abusiv „Privateigentum. Zugang verboten” stand, waren keine Betreuer, sondern nur ein Wächter, der beauftragt war, NIEMANDEM den Zugang zu erlauben, anwesend.

 Um vor den europäischen Beamten zu verbergen, was noch verborgen werden kann, haben die Vertreter des Rathauses die Lage verschlechtert und erneut nachgewiesen, dass hinter den gesperrten Toren die Situation gesetzwidrig und grausam ist. Sie waren nicht imstande, einen Vertreter zum Tierheim zu schicken (nur in seiner Anwesenheit war der Zugang zum Heim möglich). Sie waren nicht imstande, eine eindeutige Antwort zu geben, als wir gefragt haben, oder das Heim dem Rathaus gehört oder, ob dieses ein privates Heim ist. Sämtliche Vertreter des Rathauses und der Vermögensverwaltung wussten nicht, welche die beste Antwort dazu war, so dass sie stotterten und letztendlich zur ewigen Antwort „ich weiß nicht” kamen. Letztendlich haben wir vom stellvertretenden Bürgermeister erfahren, dass das Heim dem Rathaus gehört, wobei dieser nicht mehr sagen konnte, dass ihm die Antwort auf diese Frage nicht bekannt ist.

Das Hundeheim des Rathauses Slatina wird durch das gleiche Unternehmen – Iberia Velvet SRL, das als stabiler Partner des Rathauses auch in anderen Bereichen tätig ist und übermäßige Kosten, welche durch das Rathaus aus den öffentlichen Geldern abrechnet, in Rechnung stellt, betrieben.

Das „Heim”, in dem die Hunde vor Hunger sterben und die minimalen Gesetzvorschriften nicht eingehalten werden, wurde durch die Sanitär-, Veterinär- und Lebensmittelsicherheitsbehörde des Kreises Olt aus sanitär-veterinärem Standpunkt zugelassen!

 Der erbarmslose Zustand der Hunde in diesem Heim konnte auch vom Zaun festgestellt werden. Der 1 Meter hohe Schnee um einen Sonderstand, wo ein „geschützter” Rassenhund war, wies nach, dass niemand darin in den letzten Tagen war, um den Hund zu füttern. Unter Berücksichtigung der persönlichen Feststellungen, aber auch aufgrund der Erklärungen der Besucher dieses „Heimes” im Laufe der Zeit, woraus hervorgeht, dass die Hunde abgeschwächt sind, ohne Wasser und Futter leben, wobei auch keine (Wasser-) Näpfe vorhanden sind, ist eindeutig klar, dass diese Lage ganz üblich ist! All diese Grausamkeiten gegen die Tiere, nachgewiesen durch Erklärungen und Fotos, stellten die Grundlage für die Strafklage, welche durch FNPA im 2013 gegen das Rathaus und das Unternehmen Iberia Velvet eingereicht wurde, dar.

 Auch die Adoption eines Hundes aus dem Tierheim des Rathauses Slatina scheint ein besonders schwieriges Verfahren, ohne konkrete Ergebnisse, zu sein. Theoretisch wäre die Adoption eines Hundes nach einem ersten Besuch beim Rathaus Slatina, danach bei der Abteilung für Vermögensverwaltung, gefolgt durch das Ausfüllen der notwendigen Unterlagen und durch Rückkehr zum Heim mit einem Vertreter des Rathauses und Auswahl eines Hundes, möglich.

 Die Schlussfolgerung der Delegation ist, dass ein wesentlicher Unterschied zwischen den mündlichen Erklärungen der Behörden im Rahmen des ersten Besuchs und den Feststellungen aufgrund der zwei Besuche vor Ort vorhanden ist. Die Tierheime der Rathäser sind hermetisch verschlossen, die Tiere leiden und die Adoptionen sind fast unmöglich.

 Die Delegation wird einen vollständigen Bericht mit den entsprechenden Schlussfolgerungen erstellen, wobei dieser Bericht dem Europäischen Parlament, der Europäischen Kommission und der Öffentlichkeit vorgelegt wird.

Als Anlage der Brief der zwei Europaabgeordneten – Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI und Andrea ZANONI, in Zusammenhang mit den Schlussfolgerungen des ersten Besuchs vom 4. Dezember.