Mass EU Demonstrations – 8/3/2014 – Europe Unites Against the Mass Killing of Romanian Dogs – Over 50 Demos Organised Throughout Europe. Read Further For Your Nearest.

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If the EU Commission Will Not Act Quickly – Its Citizens Will !!

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Dear all,

On Saturday, 8th of March the biggest international DEMONSTRATION against dog killing in Romania will take place in over 50 cities from THROUGHOUT EUROPE (and not only).

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Please, all of you who can participate, see

http://mapofhope.wordpress.com/demonstrationen-und-mahnwachen/

where there are mentioned all the cities where the protests are organized.

Also you still have time to initiate/organize in other cities protests in this respect.

I would suggest to be at the Romanian embassies/consulates.

Thank you for every continuously effort you do for the animals from Romania!

All the best

Carmen ARSENE

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Romania / EU: Press conference from 12 February, 2014 at the EU Parliament on the mistreatment of dogs in Romania.

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30 minute video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR3Qgm84-e4&feature

For further information on the situation of Romanian dogs and this press conference, please visit:

http://www.occupyforanimals.org/on-th…

 

And very well worth watching also:

http://www.occupyforanimals.org/roman…

Video: kindly provided by the Press Center of the EU- Parliament

SubjectPress conference from 12 February, 2014 at the EU Parliament on the mistreatment of dogs in Romania

On December 4, 2013 a delegation of the European Parliament went to Romania and had some meetings with Romanian officials ANSVSA- Sanitary-Veterinary and Food Safety National Authority and the Mayor of Bucharest. The delegation members were assured 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 January 28, the delegation returned to Romania in order to inform themselves on the situation directly on site by visiting as well dog shelters of the city halls.

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.

On 12th of February, 2014, the Vice-Chairman of the AGRI Committee and Vice-Chairman of the Animal Welfare Intergroup, MEP Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI (ECR) together with the Vice-Chairman of the Animal Welfare Intergroup MEP Andrea ZANONI (ALDE) hosted a press conference in relation to their recent visit to Romania.

MEPs addressed concerns regarding the situation of stray dogs in light of the recently adopted Stray Dogs Euthanasia Law by the Parliament of Romania aimed at culling the stray population, and presented their reflections and conclusions and put forward plans, recommendations and possible initiatives in search of a solution on how to address the issue.

 

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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: The Medieval Animal Abusing Nation That Puts Shame On All The Good Pro-Welfare Work Of EU Citizens – EU Parliament – Act – And Act NOW !

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A MEDIEVAL EUROPEAN NATION WHO’S CURRENT ACTIONS CAST DISGRACE ON THE REST OF DECENT (PRO WELFARE) CITIZENS IN EUROPE.

Remove these medieval animal abusers from the modern day EU – and do it now !

EU Citizens – Please remember – the Euro Elections are in May 2014 – tell your MEPs to act and act now on this issue if they want YOUR VOTE.  The time for talking and lost promises has passed – the EU demands action from its politicians !!

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http://www.houndsandpeople.com/de/magazin/aktuelles/vergessene-hunde-in-rumanien-warten-auf-den-tod/

(private translation of text as it appears on DogsAndPeople website

with thanks to D for her work with this).

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Here below are the contact e mail addresses for ALL Romanian Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).

You may wish to drop them a short line regarding the situation below, and asking them to wake up and get back to their national government to take action about this.  With European MEP elections this coming May, they need to attempt to gain public appeal and support, and votes.  They are not doing this by treating animals this way in Romania.

Time for change or time for new Romanian government and MEP’s; or alternatively, get Romania out of the EU if it wants to behave in this manner.

Full Romanian MEP listing:  just copy the entire block and paste into ‘CC’ – use the first contact as the ‘TO’ section in the mail.

TO:  elenaoana.antonescu@europarl.europa.eu, 

Then copy all the following and paste into ‘CC’:

elena.basescu@europarl.europa.eu,
george.becali@europarl.europa.eu,  sebastianvalentin.bodu@europarl.europa.eu,
victor.bostinaru@europarl.europa.eu,   cristiansilviu.busoi@europarl.europa.eu,
corina.cretu@europarl.europa.eu,   georgesabin.cutas@europarl.europa.eu,
vasilicaviorica.dancila@europarl.europa.eu,   ioan.enciu@europarl.europa.eu,
ivan@europarl.europa.eu,   petru.luhan@europarl.europa.eu,   monica.macovei@europarl.europa.eu,
ramonanicole.manescu@europarl.europa.eu,   marianjean.marinescu@europarl.europa.eu,
iosif.matula@europarl.europa.eu,    mimpiarr@gmail.com,   norica.nicolai@europarl.europa.eu,   rareslucian.niculescu@europarl.europa.eu,   ioanmircea.pascu@europarl.europa.eu,
rovana.plumb@europarl.europa.eu,
cristiandan.preda@europarl.europa.eu,   dacianaoctavia.sarbu@europarl.europa.eu,
adrian.severin@europarl.europa.eu,   csaba.sogor@europarl.europa.eu,
theodordumitru.stolojan@europarl.europa.eu,   claudiuciprian.tanasescu@europarl.europa.eu,
silviaadriana.ticau@europarl.europa.eu,   laszlo.tokes@europarl.europa.eu,
traian.ungureanu@europarl.europa.eu,   tudorcorneliu.vadim@europarl.europa.eu,
adinaioana.valean@europarl.europa.eu,   renate.weber@europarl.europa.eu,
iuliu.winkler@europarl.europa.eu,

Forgotten Dogs in Romania Waiting for Death

After the passing of the kill law dogs are waiting in freezing temperatures and hungry for death. Please Help! Share this Article.

Romania: After the passing of the kill law dogs are waiting in freezing temperatures and hungry for death.

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Romania is drowned in snow up to 2 meters high, an icy wind blows across the land; in many places there is no getting through.

Trucks have to discontinue their journeys, because even the main roads into Bucarest are impassable.

Mobile networks are disrupted and the thing animal activists have dreaded since September 2013, has finally happened.

With the onset of winter at the beginning of this year the situation of the dogs has come to a head.

Since September of 2013, when Romania declared an all-out-war on strays, the animals have been hunted with unprecedented cruelty – being caught with wire nooses and taken to council “shelters”.

The „adoption law“, which legalises killing after 14 days, is, in reality, a kill law.

Not only is she short period of time allowed for adoption a mayor hurdle – it is also not very common in Romania to adopt street dogs and the councils arbitrarily make it difficult for people to adopt.

What this means for the dogs is difficult to imagine. They are being penned up: small and large dogs, old and sick dogs and pups.

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In many of the council shelters the dogs waste away, without food and care, until they are, as recently happened in Craiova, beaten to death.

A third of the dogs incarcerated there were “euthanized” in this way over night (see image of cleaning up afterwards).

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Many shelters were cut off from the world by the massive onset of winter, and contrary to those dogs in private shelter, where activists fight for every single life, these dogs were left to their fate.

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It is beyond comprehension that this sort of thing is allowed to happen in an EU member state.

Unpunished and unhindered Romania violates every agreement concerning animal welfare and recommendations for sensible population control.

Animal activists are fighting a losing battle.

The volunteer, who have gained access to these “hell shelters”, to see how the dogs are faring and to try and help, suffer extreme emotional distress and will never forget what they see. Nevertheless they do not leave the dogs to their fate.

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The Romanian state shows its most ugly face in these days and the European community is silent and tolerates the mass murder of dogs.

A Romanian activist reports: it was noticed on Saturday already that the kennels at the council shelter of Craiova were empty. And where, in the beginning, 6 to 8 dogs sat, only one or two remained.

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Activists of the privately-run initiative SPERATNA PENTRU ANIMALE /Craiova went to the local shelter at Breasta on a daily basis in order to feed the dogs there (between 700 and 800!) with their own food – or else they would’ve had nothing to eat.

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Due to bad snow fall they were FORBIDDEN to enter the shelter Breasta / Craiova for several days.

When the situation relaxed weatherwise, and they were allowed to return on Saturday, they found a third of the dogs gone.

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Every day now the number of dogs diminishes. From yesterday to today another 100 dogs disappeared – they are killing them over night.

 Many Romania and foreign activists and organisations are fighting for every soul and urgently need your help.

This is where you can help:

HAR, HELPING ANIMALS ROMANIA, Bukarest

Account Details:

Please state usage: HAR-Kastrations-Patenschaft

Romanian account: ASOCIATIA HELPING ANIMALS ROMANIA HAR

RO35 RZBR 0000 0600 1613 1057

RAIFFEISEN BANK MOSILOR

SWIFT CODE : RZBRROBU

Sponsorhsip for Castration: 35,– Euro

Web: http://www.helpinganimalsromania.de/

https://www.facebook.com/HAR.HELPING.ANIMALS.OF.ROMANIA

DONATIONS VIA CREDIT CARD / PAYPAL POSSIBLE

Speranta pentru Animale

Thru Bank Account:

Credit Agricole Bank

Euro: RO 06 BSEA 02 00 00 00 00 885647

SWIFT: BSEAROBU

Web: http://www.sperantapentruanimalecraiova.com/en/index.html

https://www.facebook.com/sperantapentruanimale

DONATIONS VIA CREDIT CARD / PAYPAL POSSIBLE

Dog Rescue Romania, Bukarest

Veterinarian Dr. Rudolf Hofmann

Transilvania Bank – Chitila branch

IBAN Euro: RO 37 BTRL EURC RT02 3139 4501

SWIFT: BTRLRO22

Helfe4Pfoten e.V.

Raiffeisenbank Bad Gögging

BIC: GENODEF1NGG

IBAN: DE74750690150000267988

Web: http://www.helfe4pfoten.de

Please help us!

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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:

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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 Update 11/02.14: EU Politicians Find Major Discrepencies Between What the Romanians Tell Them and the Actual Reality. – EU Press Conference on Issue 12/02/14 pm.

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Romania update 11/02/14 – EU Delegation found that there were a major discrepancies between what the authorities had told them during their first visit and what they found on site.

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Dear all,

As you know, on December 4, 2013 a delegation of the European Parliament came to Romania and had some meetings with Romanian officials ANSVSA- Sanitary-Veterinary and Food Safety National Authority and the Mayor of Bucharest. The delegation members were assured that the law on dog management is 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 January 28, the delegation returned to Romania in order to inform themselves on the situation directly on site by visiting as well dog shelters of the city halls.

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 Delegation has also received from us 12 reports about the situation from different towns in Romania and proves with regards at the abuses against stray dogs in the municipalities’ camps.

With regards at the SITUATION OF THE STRAY DOGS IN ROMANIA, MEP Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI, Vice-Chairman of the AGRI Committee and Vice-Chairman of the Animal Welfare Intergroup and MEP Andrea ZANONI, Vice-Chairman of the Animal Welfare Intergroup, will be hosting a PRESS CONFERENCE on Wednesday 12th February, 15:30, at Brussels, at European Parliament, Raoul Wallenberg Room – ASP5G2.

MEPs will present their reflections and conclusions and put forward plans, recommendations and possible initiatives in search of a solution on how to address the issue.

Please, see bellow the official information.

All the best

Carmen ARSENE

 

Press Conference – European Parliament

Situation of stray dogs in Romania”

MEP Janusz Wojciechowski (ECR)

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MEP Andrea Zanoni (ALDE)

 

Wednesday 12th February 2014, 15:30

 Raoul Wallenberg Room – ASP5G2

The Vice-Chairman of the AGRI Committee and Vice-Chairman of the Animal Welfare Intergroup, MEP Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI (ECR) together with the Vice-Chairman of the Animal Welfare Intergroup MEP Andrea ZANONI (ALDE) will be hosting a press conference on Wednesday 12th February in relation to their recent visit to Romania.

MEPs will be addressing concerns regarding the situation of stray dogs in light of the recently adopted Stray Dogs Euthanasia Law by the Parliament of Romania aimed at culling the stray population.

MEPs will present their reflections and conclusions and put forward plans, recommendations and possible initiatives in search of a solution on how to address the issue. More information will be presented at the press conference.

 

 

 

 

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) 

 Letter MEPs Janusz Wojciechowski, Andrea Zanoni about visit 4 December in Romania (2)Letter MEPs Janusz Wojciechowski, Andrea Zanoni about visit 4 December in Romania (3)

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.