News 12th April 2006 

We all are eagerly waited news from Carmena and Patricia. I start with neutering program as it has been the most important issue lately with news from Tg-Jiu. Authorities in Tg-Jiu are still keen of starting this program but there has not been any hurry of organizing it. The decision has to be accepted in council meeting of City Hall and it will be held in May. Before that Carmena and Patricia has to offer them an acceptable contract for the program. If the offer is acceptable the city hall might offer e.g. 2-3 workers and a vehicle for the program. Also they have promised to improve the current shelter so that there will be a place for recovering to the dogs after neutering. These are the news heard today.

We have to remember that there is no law in Romania for this kind of neutering programs. They have been carried out only if the mayors and authorities in different cities have been willing to do it. Usually this kind of programs have been carried out in small cities, much more smaller than Tg-Jiu is. And also the authorities can stop the program after a month or so if they want to. Usually local people are not so keen to start neutering programs because they do not like the idea that stray dogs are released after neutering back to streets. Local people prefer usually killing. But that is not the reason why not to start this program if we have a possibility. We have to consider all difficulties we might have to face and think strictly how we can solve them. We also have to think how we can change step by step the attitude of local people.

We have so much good ideas and plans to get closer with local people and give them information. Not only about animal welfare but also how they can improve their life with us and working with us. One example is that we would like to give joy and love also to abandoned and orphan children and old people – if we only can have a change. There will also be a working opportunity for several local people with these programs of ours.

Still we continue to carry out our neutering campaign for summer. That was planned months ago and was targeted for local people. They have an opportunity to bring their pets for free neutering and vaccinations in summer. Welcome to support us with this campaign.

Carmena and Patricia have also gone through a very difficult and hard process with the new shelter they want to build. Also it has been extremely hard to find a designer or architect to co-operate with reasonable compensation. Every one of us can also imagine how much it will cost to build a shelter for 200-400 dogs with EU-standards. But we do not achieve any of our goals if we even do not try. And we certainly do.

Please, take helping a matter of your heart.