The Romania Animal Rescue Craiova Spayathon was a huge success! 550 spays/neuters for dogs and cats, all dogs and cats, whether stray, from shelters or owned, were welcomed! The new RAR van collected animals from local shelters as well as areas where many strays are located. Many animals were humanely captured and brought in from a neighboring village as well as from areas with large stray dog populations in Craiova.
Thank you to Dr. Aurelian Stefan, Dr. Petrisor Stefan, Dr. Irina Corbu, Dr.Roxana-Elena Stan , vet techs Ruth Osborne, Cosmina Vasile, Gwyneth Moreland, and Laura. Thank you to the great charity Sperantu Pentru Animale Craiova.
550 animals were spayed/neutered, deparasited, pups were vaccinated, as well as many emergencies treated for the street animals, including putting pins in broken legs from numerous dogs that had been hit by cars and cleaning up a puppy that had been covered in tar.. Thank you to friends who traveled from all over the world to help by volunteering! Bonnie Siddons, Gwyn Moreland and Mike Monko from the USA, friends from Germany and of course Switzerland. And our wonderful friends who came from all over Romania to help with this massive mission of animal welfare. Thank you to Mary Young for the extremely generous donation of Advantix and Revolution! Thank you to Keith for your donations of Certifect and HeartGard. The strays are so much healthier now thanks to you!
The success was so outstanding that RAR is able to provide an additional 300 more free spays to Craiova, thus making the grand total for this Spayathon 850 animals who received free spay/neuter treatment. Neuter or Spay! No More Strays! No More Suffering! Now onto Bistrita, Tecuci, and so many other locations! Now that we are approaching our 20,000 free spay/neuter, we would like to say "Thank YOU!" to our fabulous donors!
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Dear Friends of the Romanian animals,
With the winter weather and snow in Romania, freezing temperatures make stray animals' life even harder.
The good news is that after so many years of hard work we see the light at the end of the tunnel. Fewer animals have to endure the harsh winter because there are fewer litters. After more than 18,500 surgeries performed in Romania, we hope 2013 will bring us way above the 20,000th surgery mark.
With your help we managed to buy our van that will be delivered in the spring just before the May Spayathon, which will enable us to be even more mobile and help more animals in the years to come. This all is possible thanks to your generous help and support. Now we can do even more good work for the animals in need. Along with the ambitious intensive spay and neuter plans, we aim to help more animals receive a home after being operated and treated for various conditions such as bad fractures, transmissible venereal diseases, skin disease and many more conditions that would prevent them from being adopted from the streets and given a forever home. All this is achieved with your help and we count on your support to continue our good work. Our website shares the stories, testimonials and events, such as our recent Spay Day 2013 successful event in early February for "My Dog Has Happy Paws" in Moreni!
This year we hope to go to many cities, towns, villages, and other locations to help the animals in need with spay/neuter. A few of the locations that have requested our help once again are Bucharest, Bistrita, Barlad, Moreni, Herculane, Tecuci, Adjud, Craiova, Braila, Giurgiu, Targoviste, and Buzau. Numerous individuals contact us asking if they can bring their dogs in to the clinics for free spay/neuter on a regular basis. This is where your help and support mean so much for so many. Thank you!
Romania Animal Rescue will be providing the free spay/neuter of 150 animals in villages surrounding Bucharest this year as well. The need for this is best explained by our friend Raluca from Red Panda charity in Bucharest would like to say "thank you!" to everyone!
"Dear Romania Animal Rescue Donors, Thank you so much! As soon as the weather allows us and the vets' schedule, we will also organize the spays in the rural area. People are poor there, they do not have enough food for the animals, and the puppies are born and die in bad conditions. People want us to come and neuter, but they would never afford to pay for the surgeries. Sometimes they keep the puppies till they are 2 months old and then they bring them in the forests, and let them die there. Or they drown the puppies immediately after they are born. Lack of education and poverty lead to tough and cruel ways of dealing with the animals. I am sure we will help some animals and their owners also with the spays! Thank you! We are very grateful to the team and the donors, for making this possible! Hugs, Raluca"
Thank you once again for your support for our mission of "Neuter and Spay! No More Strays! No More Needless Suffering!" We wish you a wonderful 2013, For the Animals, Aurelian Stefan, DVM, and Nancy Janes
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Romania Animal Rescue is approaching our 18,000 free spay/neuter in Romania - thanks to help from YOU!! Our "keyhole incisions" provide some great advantages for the animals we help. There is less discomfort, quicker recovery time, and less risk of infection. Thanks to YOU - we are able to do so much for the animals that once had no hope in Romania. Help us to make the abandoning of puppies and dogs on the streets a thing of the past. Thank you for helping us to put an end to the cycle of animals being born to suffer. Thank you for your support for Romania Animal Rescue!
Happy Tail Update:
Many of you may remember little Stuart, found in October of 2010 in Timisoara by a railroad worker. Romania Animal Rescue was contacted for help. We knew Stuart would freeze or starve to death in the winter, and we had to do anything we could to help him. Thanks to wonderful networking, Stuart was rescued and brought to Family Vet in Craiova for treatment and care until home could be found for him. Please see the attached video of Stuart with Dr. Aurelian Stefan upon his arrival at Family Vet in Craiova 2 years ago.
Stuart is now handsome young boy, who never has to worry about the cold or isolation. He is loved and cherished by his family in Florida.
We at Romania Animal Rescue would like to wish you the happiest of holidays!
Sincerely,
Nancy Janes and Romania Animal Rescue veterinarians and vet technicians
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Dear Romania Animal Rescue Friends,
We are in the midst of gearing up for the 2012 Romania Animal Rescue Spayathon, on May 18 -30. This year's event will be held in Botosani,Romania.
Volunteers from Romania, the United States, Switzerland, Austria, Germany have met in Bucharest to travel to Botosani to participate in this yearly event sponsored by Romania Animal Rescue. Thanks to donations from you, we are able to provide free spays/neuters for hundreds of animals at this event as well as year-round with our numerous other spay/neuter projects.
Thank you for your generous support for our work that exists all year in Romania to help the animals.
I wish you a wonderful summer and all the very best!
Nancy Janes, Founder and President, Romania Animal Rescue
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Hello everyone,
Very few of you probably know where Romania lies or have even heard about this country. There is one thing I would like to tell you about this country: the animals. Animals have been seen as property for far too many years and it is time for a change. A change that will only come with a bit of help from you the wonderful people reading this report. Romania Animal Rescue generates a better life for so many animals by making their future brighter and more secure.
We managed to spay and neuter more than 13500 dogs and we are looking to reach our 15000th surgery in the near future. We believe that education the future generation in the humane treatment of animals is the way to go , we have helped thousand individuals spay their dogs for free in our mass sterilisation campaigns throughout Romania from Transilvania to the Danube Delta and from the Black Sea to the Carpathians. Every single surgery means the world for the pups that will no longer be born into a cruel world and for the mother dog that will no longer have to nurse in the cold snow.
Because small animal vets are so hard to find in some remote areas we train veterinarians into modern surgical techniques so that animals can be operated safely and with mini wounds and use of painkillers. Please join us in our projects and be part of the team that provides a better future for the animals in Romania . Thank you for your help and support !
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