Spay and Neuter for 2000 Cats in Romania

Dear Romania Animal Rescue Friends,

Happy Holidays to you!  Thank you for supporting our projects to spay and neuter cats.  I am happy to announce that Romania Animal Rescue is nearing 10,000 spays and neuters (dogs and cats)  for the year of 2016, and over 53,000 in total since we began our major spay campaigns primarily in 2009.  

In October, RAR ran simultaneous campaigns at Family Vet in Craiova and in rural villages with our mobile ambulance, HOPE.  It was an amazing and extremely successful week of 475 spays and neuters, with the total for the month of October well over 1000 spays and neuters.   Volunteers from Europe, Canada and the USA came to help in the month of October and it was lovely to meet our friends in person.

The Center of Hope, in Ilfov County near Bucharest, had its pre-opening celebration on October 16, also welcoming visitors from around the globe to see the great strides being made by Romania Animal Rescue and our sister charities to change the face of animal welfare in Romania with this immense ground-breaking Center.

Please take a look at our NEW website that includes the work of Romania Animal Rescue and our sister UK Charity Animal Spay and Neuter International.

Spring is just around the corner, and this means that we are in a rush to spay as many cats as possible.  Our mobile campaigns have slowed down due to the cold weather and dangerous road conditions of Romanian winter, but the clinics in Craiova, Iasi, Moreni, Bucharest, and Vatra Dornei have been carrying on spay and neuter projects for the animals of impoverished people who could otherwise not afford this service.  The Center of Hope is almost ready to receive patients, and we need YOUR SUPPORT so that we can begin to address the issue of abandoned cats and kittens surrounding Bucharest.

Thank you for reaching out to continue to help the cats in Romania.  I am often asked why a citizen of the USA chooses to help Romanian animals.  I understand the great need in the USA.   The issue is Romania is immense, the kitties cannot help where they were born.   There is little if any help for the cats of Romania, only a handful of shelters (2 that I am aware of).  We feel it in our hearts to help these animals, and with your assistance, we can do just that.

Thank you and all the best for 2017!

Links:

• our website
• Facebook page

Romania Animal Rescue runs our feral cat spay project for up to 100 spays and neuters per month in Craiova and Bucharest.  But we also reach out to more communities with our everyday spayathons.

2 places reached this month were Lipia, Snagov, Romania.   Along with our friends from Germany, RAR was able to spay and neuter many cats who will never ever give birth to suffering animals!   Lipia is a poor community with little resources or vet care.  Our vet team is able to provide spay and neuter along with vet treatments for cases brought in to campaigns.

Another location we were able to help in was in a village near Cluj-Napoca, Romania.   A remote village is generally unable to get the proper vet care or spay and neuter services.  This is why we travel to bring help to them.

Thank you for your support, I hope you will continue to support our spay and neuter work and please consider contributing to the Center of Hope construction so that we can complete our headquarters for animal vet care in Ilfov County, Bucharest.  We are desperate for an x ray machine to be able to help the animals to the fullest.

Links:

• video of the Center of Hope
• RAR website
• RAR Facebook page