Re. Slaughter of stray dogs in Romania/circulate widely

[Guest guest]

Hi everyone,

It seems Greece is not the only country that has declared war on stray dogs.

A struggling group in Romania has sent us the following. If you can help them

in any way please contact them.

 

Raven

Greyhound Action International

 

ROLDA Romania Dogs

 

We are ROLDA, a small group from Romania who are fighting for dogs

protection.

For some months terrible things are happening with those poor souls. Street

dogs (without an owner or lost) are taken by flayers and killed

All this slaughter began in Bucharest, when The Mayor of Bucharest, Traian

Basescu, ordered all dogs without owners to be caught and slaughtered. The

flayers made them " disappear " .More than 150,000 dogs wiped out in a few weeks.

They didn't care about the fact those dogs have been sterilized (some of

them) few time ago. The Flayers killed them all! They beat dogs to their

death, broke their head with stones, they poisoned dogs.

 

In all this time, war was declared on dogs. An aggressive campaign from the

mass-media is making some people in Romania act inhumane: there are several

cases of people shooting and poisoning dogs because they 'think " dogs

represent a real danger to humans.

 

I have seen some terrible scenes with my own eyes, when a lame dog was beaten

by a man, because he believed the dog would bite him. But the dog couldn't

even move from there.

 

I saw flayers that have beat dogs to death with big bats and sticks, I saw

dogs skinned whilst alive. The most cruel thing happened a little time ago,

when a child, in the morning viewed lots of poisoned dogs (the flayers killed

them the night before). Between those dogs was Blackie, the puppy who came

very often near the child's apartment and received food and water from him.

I hardly can describe the pain from those innocent eyes, the disappointment

that he lost his friend. He couldn't understand 'why? " nor could I.

 

The slaughter from Bucharest has spread, step by step to other big cities,

where the same things are happening, but they are keeping it quiet.

Now even people from Korea and other dog eating countries are taking

advantage of the stray dog population by killing Romanian dogs for human

consumption. This is mainly happening on the ships that are coming in at the

ports. Nobody seems to do or even say anything about it. Around this

slaughter, everything seems to freeze. AND IT ISN'T ONLY A SLAUGHTER AGAINST

DOGS, IT IS A SLAUGHTER AGAINST THE IDEA OF BEING HUMAN.

 

We like to believe that we are superior, that we can move mountains with the

power of our minds but when it's about real solutions for homeless dogs in

Romania, the irony we found the 'best solution " : Get rid of them.

Eliminating the cause, we must not think too much to find solutions. HOW

CONVENIENT! In Romania the corruption is very high, everyone steals from

everyone, who care about dogs anymore? SOME OF THOSE CREATURES ARE STILL

ALIVE AND DESERVE TO BE TREATED THE BEST AS WE CAN, TO NOT BE ASHAMED WE ARE

CALLING OURSELVES 'HUMANS. "

 

Rolda is asking people to act now. We believe the best solution to save as

many dogs as we can from the authorities' is to build shelters, in which

homeless dogs will be sterilized, vaccinated and live without fear for the

rest of their lives. For building a shelter we need more than ideas, the

willingness of help, we need...funds. Any help whether making a small

donation or sponsoring a stray dog in order to feed and give them vital

veterinary care would be invaluable.

 

At this point, Rolda is asking for help.

For any suggestion or contribution, visit our site:

<A HREF= " http://roldaorg.homestead.com/ " >http://ROLDAORG.homestead.com/</A>

or write directly to <A

HREF= " ROLDA " >ROLDA</A>

Respectfully,

ROLDA.

Please write and make the following points to the Romanian President at the

below address. Or if you wish copy the sample letter below adding your name,

address and country of origin.

 

1) Please ask him to stop the slaughter of stray dogs in Romania.

2) To stop the slaughter of dogs for human consumption

3) To build non kill shelters throughout Romania.

4) To introduce humane methods of euthanasia for seriously ill and suffering

dogs.

5) To introduce a programme to educate children in schools about compassion

for animals in order to stop the cycle of abuse.

6) To introduce a neutering programme to reduce the stray dog population in

time.

7) To create effective laws to protect animals and ensure that the existing

ones are enforced.

8) To severely punish animal abusers.

 

 

Dear President Ion lliescu,

I was horrified to discover that stray dogs in Romania are being slaughtered.

To inflict such atrocities on these helpless animals has shocked the world.

This is not a solution to the stray dog population. Even countries such as

korea are trying to take advantage of the lack of compassion for animals in

Romania by stealing and slaughtering stray dogs for human consumption in the

ports. I urge you to protect the stray dogs and introduce non kill shelters

throughout Romania and adopt humane method of euthanasia applying it only in

cases of seriously ill dogs. In the long term a neutering programme will no

doubt reduce the number of unwanted animals. It has been reported in the

media around the world that the minimum animal protection laws are being

ignored in your country and corruption is rife. I have seen the proof, the

disturbing images of murdered dogs in Romania. I urge you to implement

effective and enforceable laws that will severely punish animal abusers. It

has been proven in the USA that people which commit animal abuse are also

people that commit murders of humans. The government needs to encourage

compassion towards animals perhaps you would consider introducing animal care

awareness especially educational programmes in schools. I urge you to take

action and lead by example and stop the violence and animal abuse. I can

assure you if the killings continue, the blood of the dogs will stain Romania

forever. People will boycott visiting your country and there is no doubt that

this will have financial repercussions for the Romanian people and their

businesses.

I await your urgent response and action.

 

Yours respectfully

 

 

President Ion lliescu,

 

Palatul Cotroceni,

Strada Geniului nr. 1-3

Sector5-Bucuresti-Romania

 

Email: ioniliescu