At noon Patricia came to tell that she and her mother were going to see how Rona, the abused horse, was doing. They have tried to "take the custody" of the horse from its lunatic owner. A stall that has been built for Rona to the shelter area is already waiting for her. So I took off the cover layer of my clothes, the so called shelter gear, and we headed towards the village on the outskirts of the city of Bumbesti Jiu to check up on Rona.

On our way Patricia told that in the morning a woman had come to the shelter and asked for Pro Animals Romania to feed the homeless dogs of some car market area since according to the rumours Pro Animals' have plenty of food. Patricia had wondered the source of this rumour and told that even if they have sacks of food in their storage they are meant to last for the shelter dogs for months and there were no extra food to be shared around the city. It is likely that there are lots of rumours like this circling the city and the locals have no desire to check whether the rumours are true or not. They simply assume that Carmena and Patricia will take care of all the problems relating to animal protection issues if the problems are just reported to them.

After we had driven about an hour we arrived in the village surrounded by beautiful landscapes. Rona is owned by some Romani people of Romania and already a glance at the surroundings in which these people live in signs that they don't have much wealth. Rona was already abandoned by her owner but when the owner and his family realized how interested people are in Rona, they demanded to keep the horse. It is likely that the strategy of the family is to use Rona for getting some money. The fact is that Rona can't be used as a workhorse ever again so in that way she's not worth of money. We could've paid hundreds of euros to get Rona away from her lunatic owner but would that have been the right thing to do ethically speaking? If we had paid good money of Rona, wouldn't that have lead to people gossiping about it all over the county and soon there would've been tons of horses like Rona waiting to be rescued by paying of course? 

We tried to persuade Rona's owners for over an hour but to no avail. Eventually Carmena informed that the next day we'd be back with a police, vet and reporter of the local TV-channel. Rona's owner acted very arrogantly and didn't seem to care much about who would come to check the situation.