There is quite much news to tell you this time.

First of all I want to tell about the best news for a long time. The City Hall authorities in Tg-Jiu have finally signed the contract of Neuter & Release programme of stray dogs. Carmena has been in the meeting with the Vice Mayor of Tg-Jiu on Tuesday 24.10. and both sides have agreed the rules of the contract. The representative of Four Paws has been also in that meeting because the mobile clinic of Four Paws will visit Tg-Jiu couple of times per year and help with neuters.

There will be plenty of work to do before the programme can start in full forces but now we can start to prepare things knowing that the contract has approved and signed.

Now all the cities of Gorj’s county have signed Neuter & Release contract. That means Gorj is the only county in Romania where all cities have done that. Congratulations!

We will get more information when Patricia returns from Slovenia where she is right now taking part to International Companion Animal Welfare Conference 25.-27.10.

Patricia took part also to a Animal conference held in Vienna 14.-15.10. You can read about it here.

You can find also the presentation of Pro Animals Romania shown in the conference.

Last Saturday Patricia and Diana visited old people’s home in Suseni near Tg-Jiu. Before “the girls” have had a dog with them but this time they also had couple of animal videos to show residents. Old people like so much those visits and are eagerly waiting every week girls and dog to come again. It is so great to know how important this kind of therapy dog programme is. Soon Patricia and Carmena would like to start therapy dog programme also with some children.

We have also collected some material for educational programme for school children. But always we have to keep in our minds that Carmena and Patricia can’t do alone everything. They have to take care of the shelter and dogs at home. Now mobile clinic is working in Gorj neutering and spaying stray dogs and Carmena and Patricia have to go to check every week that everything goes well. There is hundreds of kilometres distance between cities and it is not so easy to drive on those roads of Gorj. And Patricia have been lately much abroad participating those conferences so Carmena’s responsibilities has been doubled.

Tg-Jiu’s vet Popescu has returned back to home after being in Finland three weeks. He stayed at the home of Serban and Päivi Ursachi and was learning new medical methods in the vet clinic of Serban and Päivi. The board of Pro Animals Finland covered the costs of the flight tickets to Popescu because he had been eager to learn new things and bought plenty of useful instruments and medicines to his own clinic in Tg-Jiu.

PAFi ry has reserved a promotion place from the shopping center in Itäkeskus, Helsinki during 8.-10.12. We are going to introduce our work there and of course there is going to be also some of our supporting products for sale as well as lots with good prizes.

PAFi got a nationwide permission to collect funds from South-Finland's county hall for the period of 1.11.2006-31.10.2007
(OKU 1572 A / ESLH-2006-08234/Tu-52) . This means that our association can openly ask financial aid for it's projectis in Tg-Jiu, Romania together with Pro Animals Romania.

Soon it will be very cold also in Tg-Jiu and because of the last winter was very difficult and harsh we try to do everything to improve the conditions at the shelter. Last winter there was so much ice and snow inside the shelter that ¼ of the cages were covered by ice and dogs could not use them. Now Carmena and Patricia have bought material for repairing cages and lifting them up, But without the support of our friends it is not possible.

Let’s help together Carmena and Patricia to take care of the dogs in the shelter.

With best regards,

Kiia