Public shelter - Romania (#)
Slaughter of dogs in Europe: Romania
When authorities rarely or never check how the dogs are treated or if they receive care by the manager - under current law - the standard may vary greatly between different municipal enclosures (public shelters), depending of the mayor, who runs it and if the dogs get help from the citizens.
The images show dogs from the streets that have become caught by the local dog catcher, transported and then being enclosed - the dogs are then forced to be subjected to neglect in these highly mismanaged and substandard municipal enclosures.
The dogs who just lived freely in the street, are shocked and they do not understand what is happening - they are often placed together regardless of gender, size or temperament.
Pictures and movies taken now and then, represents how enclosures works today - there has not been any improvement.
According to Romanian and EU directives, the abandoned animals shall stay comfortably in the enclosure, be given food and water, and be given care and veterinary treatment. The dogs must be placed in view of the size and temperament and neutering, and that there should not be more than four dogs in the same pen.
The dog is still alive - final destination for many healthy dogs - abandoned, neglected, sick, starving in a municipal dog enclosures in Romania - extended torture and death - an increasingly common sight in a country that is unable to institute laws that can prevent unwanted dogs become born to a life in agony.
The dog is still alive - final destination for many healthy dogs - abandoned, neglected, sick, starving in a municipal dog enclosures in Romania - extended torture and death - an increasingly common sight in a country that is unable to institute laws that can prevent unwanted dogs become born to a life in agony.
Municipal enclosure - Galati 2011 - The stray dogs who are caught and brought to the shelter are killed within 7 days if there was nobody to take them. Although the caretaker told reporters that there are many applications for adoption, but the price of such adoptions and the fact that 90% of Galatians don't know where the shelter are located, make the number of stray dogs euthanized weekly to be very high. Conditions in which these dogs are kept, as you can see, are totally inadequate and defy any European standard. Food given is very little (200 grams / day) and water, as it shown, is missing from the cages.
(2009) Dogs are starving to death in the local government shelter in Baneasa
(2009) Municipal enclosure in Romania
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Municipal enclosure - Constanca 2010
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2010 March and 2011 May - Tulcea, Romania - Neglect, starvation, disease, frozen to death
Tulcea, Romania - On Saturday June 11, 2011 was approx. 30 dogs inside the shelter, waiting for their fate. They were all killed on Thursday June 16.
Municipal enclosure - Focsani 2011
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Emaciated and sick dogs lying together to try stay warm. They were dead a few days later. Nobody cares, dogs die all the time in municipal enclosure.
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November - December 2010. Another day another week, same room and the death box. Now, new dogs left to die by themselves. No veterinary care or medication.
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December 2010. The dog is still alive in the process of being eaten - she is weak from illness or cold. The filmmaker tries to alert the staff what is happening.
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This is the same dog that was getting eaten alive, now moved to a cold room with other sick dogs and a container full of scorpses. She was left to die alone until the next morning.
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2011 - Romania - The Botosani massacre