Animal Welfare Romania Project #12862

Food for Romanian Animals

by Romania Animal Rescue, Inc.

Project Report | Jul 11, 2017
Food for Center of Hope patients and Happy Paws

By Nancy Janes | President,Founder and CEO, Romania Animal Rescue

Thelma at Center of Hope

Hello Dear Friends,

Romania Animal Rescue is tasked with supplying food for the patients of our Homeless Animals Hospital project at the Center of Hope near Bucharest. We also try to help Happy Paws, the shelter in Moreni, that has about 150 animals.

The Center of Hope treats hundreds of animals, and will continue to treat thousands more. Most if not all of these animals have lived in poverty, and need special nutrient rich food to prosper and heal from their injuries or diseases. Many animals we treat have been hit by cars and have broken legs, hips, or backs. Many have skin diseases, some have parvo. Since they often remain with us for a long duration, we need to provide not only the veterinary care but the room and food for them as well. Little Thelma is a current patient at the Center of Hope. She was kicked onto the street (literally) because the family who owned her mother did not want any pups. The kick broke her pelvis. Ylva brought her to the Center where she is recovering nicely. She will go to a home in Sweden, and her mother has now been spayed.

Happy Paws shelter is run by Anda, who also is a veterinary technician for Romania Animal Rescue. The city of Moreni "offered" Anda to take over the city shelter, the other option being that the city would destroy the dogs. So Anda took over the shelter and provides the best care possible for these dogs. Running the shelter means caring for all these animals, including providing treatments and food for those recovering from illness. One such pup was Bilbo, who had parvo and was near death when Anda found him. Nursed back to health, he survived and is now living at the shelter waiting for adoption.

I hope you will join us in our venture to provide nutritious food for those who need it so desperately. Together we can do so much!

Thank you for your time and thank you for your help!

rescuer Ylva with Thelma at Center of Hope

Bilbo treated for parvo

bilbo getting a bath

Center of Hope

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Apr 17, 2017
New Center of Hope Receives Patients

By Nancy Janes | President,Founder and CEO, Romania Animal Rescue

Jan 20, 2017
Winter means more food needed, please help

By Anda Popescu | Project Leader for Moreni shelter food program

Igor when he entered the shelter

Dear Romania Animal Rescue Friends and Supporters,

Winter brings with it many challenges, especially if you are a homeless animal. We have many partners that we help with our programs of spay/neuter, vet care, and education, and we also help Happy Dogs in Moreni with food, thanks to YOUR SUPPORT. Anda has written this article to let you know how much your help is needed:

"If you are a stray dog in Romania, winter is far from being wonderland; winter usually means there is even less food than before and there is no dry, warm place to sleep for the next 3 months or so. While we know we can’t rescue all dogs and get them to a warm place, at least until Spring, we can help them, by feeding them, so they have enough energy to go through the winter. But to do so, we need even more food than we usually do to feed almost 200 dogs, so here we are asking for your help yet again.

This hasn’t been an unusual winter for this part of the world; we may experience temperatures down to minus 30 degrees Celsius, which for a lot of stray animals and homeless people means death. Getting food at least once a day may very well make the difference between life and death, so our mission becomes even more important than ever before. Simple tasks such as walking to the market, driving to the next town, taking one’s kids to school become painful moments for those who can’t witness animals suffering and do nothing, because dogs are abandoned everywhere – local parks, schools and market places, the woods in between towns, fields – and seeing them fight for their existence day after day may be very a traumatic experience.

A few days after New Year’s Eve, we found little Igor, a puppy who was dumped as garbage at the shelter’s gate. He was just a bag of bones, too weak to stand or move…he did nothing except blink and moan. Igor had absolutely no muscle on him and he got that way because a thing so basic as food was denied repeatedly with the only intention of killing him slowly. We don’t know much about his past, but we do know that Igor loves his food and that he will never go hungry again.

At Happy Dogs Moreni there’s a saying: “never refuse food”, because all our dogs suffered from hunger in their past, so our first promise to them was they would never go to bed on an empty stomach again. So far, we managed to keep our word and this is possible only because of people’s kindness and generosity. Thank you for helping us keep our promise!"

Thank you Anda for this description of life for the animals of Romania during winter. Please help us if you can, and join our Facebook page (link below).

We wish you and your family a Happy New Year and all the very best.

Nancy Janes, President, CEO and Founder, Romania Animal Rescue Inc. dba Animal Spay Neuter International

Igor today

feeding strays

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