Romania: Like So Many Authorities; the Romanians Ignore the Evidence and Continue to Try and Go for a ‘Kill Strays’ Policy. Issue to be Debated on 23/09 – Please Act by 21/09.

Posted on September 18, 2010 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

 

Please find below information which has been supplied by Carmen in Romania.

A debate regarding the legislation associated with stray dog control will be discussed on Thursday 23rd September.

How very disappointing to see that despite the evidence presented so many times throughout the world, some authorities still consider that mass killings of stray animals is the answer to their stray ‘problem’.  As Carmen correctly says below, thousands of animals have been killed in a futile authority attempt to control the situation.  After 10 years, the issue of stray animals is being discussed again.

Does this not tell the authorities that they have no idea about the correct way of addressing this issue, and that simply continually killing stray animals does not work; and IT WILL NEVER WORK in REDUCING STRAY ANIMAL NUMBERS !.

We need to make it clear to the Romanian authorities, and any other authority; that irresponsible PET animal ownership is very often the cause of large stray animal numbers.  Until authorities address the situation of responsible pet ownership, which would include animal sterilisation, the fitting of an identification microchip; to identify the owner, and vaccination of all animals, the ‘stray problem’, as they love to call it, will never go away.

Irresponsible pet owners who do not have their animals sterilised usually let these same animals out onto the streets.  They mate with real stray animals – the result being litters of new ‘strays’ born onto the streets.

Until the authorities accept that responsible pet ownership; AND THAT INCLUDES HAVING YOUR PET STERILISED, is undertaken by owners; in addition to keeping their animals off the streets; then there will NEVER be any reduction in stray animal numbers in any countries which have this situation – be it Romania, Serbia, Macedonia, anywhere there is this issue.

What do we have to do to get the unintelligent authorities to see this ?

People in charge for the welfare of the towns and cities; yet they cannot grasp a simple thing such as what continues to produce yet more strays !

Authoritaries are paid public money for what ? – to make very illogical, incorrect decisions it wouls appear; if this below is anything to go by !

The very sensible and only really effective for the future, as proposed by Carmen, is that under their project, there is an obligation on animal owners to sterilise and microchip identify all of their cats and dogs.

There is an alternative.  If owners do not want to sterilise their animals, then they will have to pay a financial amount to the authorities every year.  This money could be invested into further sterilisation and microchip programmes; thereby reducing costs further for pet owners.

As Carmen rightly declares, strays originate from irresponsibly owned pet animals, and so it is vital – the very first step in the process, that owned animals are sterilised in order to reduce animal numbers for the future.

SAV.

The tax/year it’s about 4 times more than a sterilization costs.

So the people will prefer to sterilize.

Sincerely
Carmen

 —– Original Message —–

From: Carmen Arsene

Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 10:24 PM

Subject: URGENT! Debating the dog management on Thursday

Dear all,  

Very unexpected; the Committee for Public Administration within the Chamber of Deputies decided to debate the legislative project no. 912 for managing the stray dogs on Thursday (September 23).

Just to have a connection with the following, I mention the form adopted by Senate is (the main line) Sterilization & Return.

There are 4 sets of amendments (main ideas):

1 – mass killing, no control of NGOs – made by prefect of Bucharest (sustained by the president of Committee and other PDL party)

 2 – mass killing – made and sustained by Hungarian party

 3 – amendments that does not affect our project – made and sustained by a deputy from PSD party

 4 – our amendments – sustained by Mr. deputy Sorin Buta (PDL party)

In the final form that was prepared for debating our amendments are not. This means they want to take into consideration only the amendments of killing.

About this and about including our amendments; Mr. dep. Buta will discuss with the president of Committee (Mrs. Sulfina Barbu) on Monday (but this does not mean it will bring so much “plus”.

Therefore please, concentrate as much as you can by sending faxes (till maximum on Tuesday) to the Committee. Tell them on short:

– the sterilization project will bring a lot of help from outside but a killing project will bring an immensity of protests and discussing in European Parliament the cruel and ineffective attitude of Romanian authorities etc.

– the importance of sterilization; the euthanasia has been applied for 10 years did not have result, the same situation is now, after killing of tens of thousands of dogs

etc.

*** SAMPLE LETTER ***

 

Dear Sir / Madam;

 

As someone who continually monitors the situation regarding national authority stray animal management policy across the world, I am very concerned to see that you are still proposing the mass killing of stray animals within Romania in a futile attempt to reduce numbers.

 

I will be very closely watching the debate on legislative project no. 912 for managing stray dogs being held on Thursday (September 23).

 

After witnessing the last 10 years of Romania killing thousands of stray animals; with a result of no reduction in their overall numbers, can I suggest to you that this supports the now global view of welfare organisations and many positive thinking authorities that killing stray animals never makes any difference on their population numbers.  But effective sterilisation DOES however.

 

Can I ask you to dismiss the proposals of certain parties who wish to continue with the mass killing of animals, and instead support the views of the PSD and PDL parties who look towards effective, humane and much more realistic approaches to stray animal population numbers.

 

 I fully support calls to the project proposed by Romanian animal welfare organisations, that there is an obligation on all animal owners to sterilise and microchip their cats and dogs.  As an alternative;  if owners do not want to sterilise their own pet animals, then they must have to pay a financial subsidy to the authorities every year as a form of compensation; because their un-sterilised animals, when allowed access to the streets, are continually contributing to the production of more strays.

 

It is a simple equation:

 

Unsterilised animal + Unsterilised animal = more stray animals.

 

sterilised animal + sterilised animal = NO more stray animals.

 

Stray animals directly originate from irresponsibly owned pet animals, nothing else.

 

So it is vital – the very first step in the process, and one which you should be supporting, is that owned animals are sterilised in order to reduce stray numbers for the future.

 

I will be watching the results of your actions with interest in this coming week.  Through various international animal welfare NGO’s, the result of your actions will be distributed globally.

 

In the name of Romania and positive animal welfare in accordance with EU legal standards; I urge you to leave mass stray animal killing and instead move towards a national owned pet sterilisation and public education programme.

 

Yours;

 

Name:  ***

Nationality:  ***

 

***PLEASE NOTE – MAILS AND LETTERS OF COMPLAINT NEED TO BE SENT BY END OF TUESDAY 21ST SEPTEMBER***

Block e mail address contacts to send your protest:

Committee for Public Administration Territorial Planning and Ecological Balance

cp06@cdep.ro,sulfina.barbu@cdep.ro,  calin.chira@amrbruxelles.eu,office@ansvsa.ro,  srp@cdep.ro,presa@cdep.ro,  petitii@mai.gov.ro,amr@amr.ro,  aor@aor.ro,  CJD@bucurestiprimaria.ro ,  procetatean@presidency.ro, prefect@mira.gov.ro,ion.calin@cdep.ro,  ioncalin@yahoo.com,  ionel.palar@cdep.ro,  mapostolache@cdep.ro,  andras.edler@cdep.ro,  edler.andras@yahoo.com,  marin.bobes@cdep.ro,  victor.boiangiu@cdep.ro,  boiangiuvictor@yahoo.com,  dan.bordeianu@cdep.ro,  cristian.buican@cdep.ro,  sorin.buta@cdep.ro,  bogdan.cantaragiu@cdep.ro,  gheorghe.ciocan@cdep.ro,  dusa_mircea@cdep.ro,  relu.fenechiu@cdep.ro,  vasile.gherasim@cdep.ro,  zmb.gherasim@gmail.com,  zanfir.iorgus@cdep.ro,  ghervazen.longher@cdep.ro,  costica.macaleti@cdep.ro,  antonella_barbu@yahoo.com,  antonella.marinescu@cdep.ro,  dan.nica@cdep.ro,  ioan.oltean@cdep.ro,  cornel.pieptea@cdep.ro,  neculai.ratoi@cdep.ro,  denes.seres@cdep.ro,  szilagy@rmdsz.ro,  v_soporan@yahoo.com,  soporan.vasile@cdep.ro,  claudiu.taga@cdep.ro,  claudiu.taga@gauss.ro,  radu.timpau@cdep.ro,  radub_t@yahoo.com,  eugen.uricec@cdep.ro,  ecu777@yahoo.com,  lucia.varga@cdep.ro,  varga.lucia@yahoo.com,  aurel.vladoiu@cdep.ro, deputat_vladoiu@yahoo.com,  sorin.zamfirescu@cdep.ro,  zgonea@cdep.ro

Romanian mass media

oradefoc@realitatea.net, monica@mediafactory.ro, martorocular@realitatea.net, andrei.udisteanu@evz.ro, stiri@antena3.ro, crp@pressclub.ro, redactie.online@mediafax.ro, office@rompres.ro, rador@srr.ro, roalertnews@gmail.com, stiri@agerpres.ro, promptmedia@gmail.com, promptmedia@hotmail.com, centrale@agerpres.ro, amos@kappa.ro, redactia@romanialibera.ro, sasevinepresa@b1tv.ro, mihaela@protv.ro, mihaela.gradinaru@tvr.ro, alexandru.cristorian@catavencu.ro, daniel.ruse@radioromania.ro, nasul@b1tv.ro, claudiuruse@yahoo.com, cojocarivitalie@yahoo.com, sergiu.voicu@primatv.ro,

You can fax to:

Committee for Public Administration Territorial Planning and Ecological Balance  

In attention to:           

President Mrs. Sulfina Barbu  

Vicepresident Mr. Calin Ion  

Vicepresident Ionel Palar  

Mrs and Mr. Deputies members  

Fax:  00 40 21 3146934

Parliament of Romania – Chamber of Deputies  

In attention to: President Mrs. Roberta Anastase  

Fax: 00 40 21 3134931

Thank you.

Sincerely  

Carmen Arsene

Dr.chem. CARMEN ARSENE

Scientific Researcher

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Institute for Nuclear Research Pitesti

str. Campului no.1

PO Box 78, 115400 Mioveni

jud. Arges, Romania

tel.: + 40 248 213400 ext 590

email: carmen.arsene@nuclear.ro

cmarsene@yahoo.com

www.nuclear.ro

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Uk: 02/10/10 is World Day for Farmed Animals. London – National March for Farmed Animals.

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

Meet 12 Noon – Cavendish Square, London, W1G 0PR.

http://www.farmedanimals.org.uk/

http://www.farmedanimals.org.uk/route.html

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Uk: September is ‘Pet Smile Month’ – A Few Good Tips to Keep Your Best Friends Gums and Teeth Healthy

Posted on September 15, 2010 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

Uk – September is ‘Pet Smile Month’.

Below is a guide to good doggie dental care and the most common dental problems.

The following is a direct copy of the leaflet provided to Uk pet owners by www.PetSmile.org

Is it time to give your best friend(s0 a dental check ?

Follow the ‘Do ….’ information provided.

Check out how dental disease can progress via the artworks and photographs.

Happy teeth is a happy dog.  So …. Give us a smile !

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Sadistic Spain: “Toro de la Vega” Update 15/09/10. Mayor María del Milagro Zarzuelo Tells the World – “the town hall had made attempts in recent years to make the fiesta less barbaric. In previous years the bull’s testicles were cut off”.

Posted on September 15, 2010 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

Spanish town spears bull for festival
September 14, 2010

AFP

Townspeople in central Spain joined in a centuries-old festival on Tuesday to spear a bull to the death, prompting an outcry from animal rights activists.

Carrying lances on horseback and on foot, hundreds of residents of Tordesillas commemorated the “Toro de la Vega” festival, held every second Tuesday of September since at least 1453.

The bull, named Platanito, charged through the streets of the fortified town, across a bridge over the River Duero and into a lightly forested plain (vega, in Spanish) where it was lanced to the death.

The spectacle lasted about half an hour.

“Spectacles like the Toro de Tordesillas should no longer exist. A country like Spain should not maintain such cruel traditions,” said Nacho Paunero, president of the animal rights group El Refugio.

A survey conducted for the group found 76 percent of those polled agreed that such festivals should be banned, Paunero said in a statement.

Paunero said he had sent a request to Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero demanding that a draft animal protection law forbid spectacles such as the Toro de La Vega.

The Socialist Party government had promised in its electoral program to draw up a draft animal protection law, and any such legislation would have to ban events such as the “Toro de La Vega,” he said.

Each region of Spain has responsibility for its own animal protection laws, usually with exceptions for bullfighting. The festival in Tordesillas is allowed under the laws of the Castilla y Leon region.

Protests by anti-bullfighting groups have mounted in Spain since the northeastern regional parliament of Catalonia agreed in July to ban bullfighting from 2012.

Another anti-bullfighting and animal rights group, PACMA, had rallied hundreds of protesters on Sunday to decry the festival, which predates the introduction of the classic bullfight at the end of the 17th century.

While calling for the festival to be scrapped, PACMA also demanded that it no longer be promoted as an event of National Tourism Interest.

Link / story:  http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/spanish-town-spears-bull-for-festival-20100914-15av3.html

ACTIONS – PROTESTS  

Poor Platanito is now dead after his toment at the hands of man; but his plight and suffering will never be forgotten; it will just make us all stronger to stop this even more quickly. 

Despite his death, actions to show disgust at this animal abuse can and will continue.  Spain needs to be informed that it exists in a 21st century Europe, not still in the 1600’s when this barbaric ritual started.

There has been widespread global condemnation of this event, even from some major Spanish newspapers – El Pais:

http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/pop_up.asp?fpVname=SPA_PAIS&ref_pge=map&tfp_map=Europe 

Please use the following links to access directly with e mail complaints:

Tordesillas Official website:

http://www.toroayto.es/

http://www.tordesillas.net/webs/inicio.php?cont=8

Tourism office of Tordesillas:

–          obviously think that lancing a bull to death with 12 foot long lances is a good tourism drive !

–          – let them know otherwise by leaving a mail message.

http://www.tordesillas.net/webs/inicio.php?cont=1&id=62&lang=eng&cat=10

 

Complain to the Spanish embassy in your own country by using the links below:

http://www.embassiesabroad.com/embassies-of/Spain

http://embassy-finder.com/spain_embassies

Dear animal friends

Last Sunday we were at the demonstration against the brutal torture and killing of a bull in Tordesillas, Spain. We were NOT allowed to enter the city. It was too dangerous and we were escorted on the “killing field” where Platanito will be murdered today.

Please write your feelings about this to the Town Hall of Tordesillas:

http://www.torrecilladelaabadesa.ayuntamientosdevalladolid.es/?q=contact

Su nombre = your name

Su direccion de correo-e = your email

Asunto = object

Mensaje = message

Also I am asking everybody to memorize this poor animal today with one minute of silence.

Thank you so much.

Wietse

—————

Protests grow over annual lancing of bull

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/sep/13/spain.gilestremlett 

Pursued across open countryside, jabbed at with spears and finally fatally stabbed by a man wielding a lance, a bull called Enrejado suffered a long, frightening and sadistic death in front of an eager crowd at Tordesillas, northern Spain.

Pictures of the wounded, blood-drenched animal being stabbed with the lance were published on the front page of El País, Spain’s biggest-selling daily newspaper, as it denounced the survival of this primitive, medieval spectacle.

Enrejado, a wide-horned, shiny black animal weighing 520kg, (82 st), took more than an hour to die during the annual festival, known as the Toro de la Vega.

The regional government of Castilla y León, run by the conservative People’s party, has formally declared the festival to be “of interest to tourists“.

Local people, however, shooed photographers and journalists away so they could not witness or capture the final moment of death, which the town hall later claimed had been completed with two deep thrusts of a lance. The right to finish off the animal after an hour of pursuit by men on horseback and on foot belonged to a horse-riding farmer from Salamanca, José Angel Gonzaléz.

Mr Gonzaléz had won the right by being the first man to land a lance on the animal as it fled across country. He was awarded the bull’s tail as trophy and ushered on to a balcony in the main square to be cheered by the crowd.

Mr Gonzaléz later declared himself honoured to have been allowed to perform the killing and promised to be back again next year.

The chase and killing of the bull in Tordesillas, a town of 8,400 people, is said to date back to the beginning of the 16th century.

“It has always been this way,” one local woman told El País. “If it seems so brutal to people, then why don’t they ban bullfighting completely?”

“Those who criticise it should come and watch,” said the People’s party mayor of Tordesillas, María del Milagro Zarzuelo.

That invitation, however, does not seem to be extended to journalists.

“They allow the bull to be traversed by spears but do not want critics to cast their eyes on it,” wrote El País journalist Carmen Morán. “This event gives off a powerful odour of poorly interpreted manliness.”

The El País report on Tordesillas came as Spain’s anti-bullfighting lobby becomes increasingly bold and vociferous.

Spanish animal rights activists had visited the mayor of Tordesillas before the most recent bull-baiting to protest at the cruelty of local traditions.

All she was able to tell them was that the town hall had made attempts in recent years to make the fiesta less barbaric. In previous years the bull’s testicles were cut off.

Protesters are regularly to be seen at the bull-runs that are held every July in Pamplona.

Barcelona city council declared itself to be against bull-fighting three years ago. It steered shy of a ban, however, and fights are still held in the city’s Monumental bull-ring.

BOYCOTT SPAIN

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Sadistic Spain: 13/09/10 – Take Action TODAY As Bull Will be Tortured to Death Tomorrow – NO TIME TO DELAY – ACT NOW !!

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

 

On 14th, a bull will be chased all over town by drunken yobs armed with lances.  They will attempt to drive the lances through the bulls body.  The one who delivers the fatal thrust is rewarded by being given the bulls testicles, which will be cut off.
 
Show the testicles of the city authorities who allow this to continue your disgust.
Vow never to visit Spain all the time this continues.
 
 
Monday 13th September 2010

PLEASE FORWARD TO ALL YOUR CONTACTS!
 

PLEASE WRITE YOUR PROTEST TODAY AGAINST THE SADISTIC TORTURE TO DEATH OF PLATANITO THE BULL IN TORDESILLAS TOMORROW.

THANK YOU:  

PROTEST VIA THIS LINK – Send a strong message to the authorities.

http://www.tordesillas.net/webs/inicio.php?cont=8

Sample message in Spanish:
Por favor detengan la espantosa tortura del inocente toro mañana. ¡Estamos en la UE en el 2010, basta de barbaridades!
 
 

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EU: New Laws Passed on Vivisection of Stray Cats and Dogs ?

Posted on September 12, 2010 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCLiHtm9tHE

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT HAS PASSED A LAW TO ALLOW VIVISECTION ON STRAY CATS AND DOGS WITHOUT ANESTHETIC OR ANALGESICS…

PROTEST NOW…PETITION IN ENGLISH AND ITALIAN …..

PROTEST NOW PLEASE.

http://www.leal.it/campagna-bruxelles/petizione-online/

SVP SIgnez cette petition et diffusez-la. Le UE a approuve la vivisection des chats et chiens errants, meme sans anesthesie…

SAV Comment

This is early, breaking news from around 9 or 10 /09.  At present, we are in contact with the EU Eurogroup to both ascertain the  exact facts, and also to express out disgust if the EU has failed its citizens to allow such animal abuse to happen.

This is just the start of what will be a massive campaign for the animals – if what first reports inform us but as we say, are currently unconfirmed.

In the very near future we aim to hear back from the Eurogroup with the facts of this case.  Further news and posts will be issued accordingly.

In the meantime and until we have further facts; please click on the link and support the current campaigns to oppose this.

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Ukraine: Animal Protection Groups Demonstrate at Kyiv City State Administration for Reforms Regarding Stray Animal Treatment

Posted on September 12, 2010 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

 

http://www.phl.ua/_site/src/session_detail.aspx?_id=41697&_int_segment=0

The representatives of animal protection organizations, once again picketed the Kyiv city state administration required to stop the destruction of homeless animals in the capital.

The… protesters carried posters with slogans: “No – Euro 2012 on animal bones”, “Their blood is on your hands”, “Ukraine – the state program of cruelty.”

The protesters demanded an immediate start to perform a program regulating the numbers of homeless animals humanely, in particular, to immediately cease catching and destruction of homeless animals in the streets and enforce the city program registration and identification of pets.In addition, animal protectors require some funds from the city budget that is now being spent on killing animals, to extend preferential and free sterilization of pets of low-income seniors or people of Kiev, and reorient spending the city budget, which direct the destruction of animals, partial funding of existing shelters .

Experts say the problem animals not only in Kiev but also in Ukraine can only be resolved to establish a network of shelters and mass sterilization not only homeless, but also domestic dogs and cats.

“To date, all developed countries have enacted laws to protect the rights of animals, that is a testament to humanity, society,” – said during the campaign President, of Association of animal protection organizations in Ukraine Asya Sierpinska.

This animal protectors stressed that capture and destruction of ONE animal cost the city budget in 434 gryvnas (almost 62$) .

At the same time, they argue that these funds would be sufficient for sterilization of THREE animals, reports UNIAN .

Protesters handed over to City Hall a letter to the Deputy Chairman Alexander Popov KCSA with request to draw attention to the cruel destruction of homeless animals in the capital.

Thanks for your participation!

SAV Comment;

Serbia, the Balkans, Ukraine – why dont these ignorant authortities accept that their kill only policy does not work.  Taxpayers money continually wasted when it could so effectively be directed into an effective no kill sterilisation programme to reduce future stray animal numbers.

Congratulations to our Ukraine animal friends who like us, will continue to be a voice for stray animals until governments and authorities see real sense with a forward looking policy and approach to stray animal numbers management.

NO KILL, Sterilise, Vaccinate and Microchip.  Combined with good public education and adoption programmes – the only way forward.

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