18.5.07

Patrcia has sent us emails in which she has told that after April and the beginning of May the poisoning incidents have diclined. Lets hope that new poisonings will not appear. More information about the poisoning incidents you can find from here

The serveral poisonings happenened in Tg-Jiu and in Motru made the news on Gorj county newspapers and were broadcasted on TV. Carmena and Patricia were also interviewed. The media didnt want to make any very profound story of the incidents but let's hope that the articles and TV broadcasts woke people up to think about these matters. Pro Animals Romania did of course report of the poisonings to the public authority and that has taken a lot of effort among all the other work.

The shelter has suffered from lack of personel beacause both of the people who worked for the shelter for few months have left. Patricia's father has been helping out Carmena every day for couple of hours and Patricia has tried to make it to the shelter every day after work and other duties to help out her mother. They are recruiting staff to the shelter with adds on the newspapers but no applicants have appeared although they could afford to pay them a reasonable salary.

A young woman named Corina has been helping out at the shelter for the past few weeks. Corina is one of the most succesful models in Romania and she has been living longer periods of time abroad. In the autumn she is going to move to Australia to continue her modelling career and hopefully then Pro Animals will get positive publicity through Corina all over the world.

Patricia has sent me a lot of pictures of the students to whom she and Diana have held education classes. So far about 600 children in Tg-Jiu have participated to the education program. Hopefully the exhibition planned by Patricia will come true during our trip to Romania in June. The plan for the exhibition is to set up drawings and other art made by the children about the preventon of cruelty to animals.

I also got pictures from the Susen's home for the elderly in which Patrcia has visited together with Diana and Corine aswell as with Dolly, Kiki and Mickey to greet the eldery people every weekend. They also have taken the eldery people outside to enjoy the beautiful summerdays of which many them have only enjoyed throught the window.

Then I got pictures of three frail sisters, Minni, Ninni and Penni. The siblings where caught in Rovinari where the mobile clinic recently visited. The girls were spayed but they were in such a bad condition that Carmena decided to take them under her care in Tg-Jiu shelter. Minni, Ninni and Penni naturally need a lot of nurseing and I hope that many of us could help out with expenses. You can find pictures of Minni, Ninni and Penni here.

Usko and Toivo are doing well and have recovered brilliantly. Usko's wound is almost unnoticeable and Toivo's fur has began to grow back. Patricia is sorry that she hasn't had the time to take pictures of the boys but promises to do her best to have the pictures taken. Only three weeks I will meet the boys personally, I can hardly wait.

I hope you remember that the new shelter's buildingproject in Tg-Jiu is very important. All the the income we get from our productsale go for the new shelter's buildingproject. There are still plenty of shoppingbags left in the storage and t-shirts and bracelets are still available. Remember to do your shopping.

Althought the sterilization project is not running at the moment we don't want to give up and we are trying to get the decision-makers in Tg-Jiu to understand the importance of sterilization. We recognize that the sterilization project requires a lot of different recourses so we dont want to go ahead unprepared and that is why we try to get all the recourse matters first ready. After that it will be a lot easier to negotiate with the city's decision-makers. We are of course sad that many dogs will suffer before the sterilization project will come true, but that is the fact that we will have to live with somehow. The resource matters are firmly connected to new shelter so that is why supporting the buildingproject is vitally important.

Heli and Niina are coming with us to Tg-Jiu in June. I belive that they will experience unforgettable moments during the trip.

With sunny wishes,

Kiia