Spay and Neuter for 2000 Cats in Romania

Hello,

I am Lelia Creanga from Iasi, Romania. I contacted Romania Animal Rescue in the Spring of 2013 asking for their help with spay/neuter for cats, as I know they already have spayed and neutered thousands of cats in our country with their program.

Iasi (pronounced Yash), Romania's second largest city, has a serious situation concerning stray cat population. There are numerous reasons that led to this unfortunate problem that causes so much suffering for the poor animals, but the main issue remains, as always, the financial constraints: people are poor, they try to do the best they can...and sometimes they don't know any better. They feed the cats around their houses or their blocks, but without spaying and neutering, more and more cats are being born, and many of these are abandoned in forests and other locations without resources. The stray cats population has rapidly increased. Due to the city location and geography, the most serious problem is the feral cats population around Copou Park, nearby Ciric forest and the International Airport and on Bucium plateau forests on the far outskirts of Iasi.

With the immense help of Romania Animal Rescue amazing donors we were able to spay / neuter now over 100 cats in Iasi alone - some stray cats but also some of the "protected" cats around the blocks, who are the producers of the often abandoned kitties. We need to stop the increasing of the kittens, we are determined to stop their suffering, we musn't allow any more unwanted litters to be born on the streets, in the forests or around busy streets of our city: their lives are miserable and short, suffering agonizing deaths.

We are grateful to have this project and we want to thank all of you who have donated to Romania Animal Rescue so we can continue our work. Now, people are constantly calling me to help them. They have heard that Romania Animal Rescue's great donors are helping the cats of our city! Many of them understood by now the benefits of having their cats spayed / neutered, they are considering now also the health advantages of the procedures, so they are more and more demanding our help! And this is also a victory! My deepest consideration to all RAR donors, lots of love to you all!

Sincerely,

Lelia Creanga

Links:

• website

These past few months our program to help the cats of Romania has really taken off.  In the two cities of Bucharest and Iasi (Romania's second largest city) people are continually asking for our help.  In the city of Craiova we recently had our large Spayathon that included spay/neuter for a total of 850 cats and dogs.  One mother cat was brought in to be checked by our vets, and was found to have a dead kitten inside her.  She needed emergency spaying and recovered to return back to her 2 kittens.

Our work in Iasi is desperately needed, as is stated here by our project coordinator in Northern Romania, Lelia Creanga.  We have been able to provide free spay/neuter for 72 cats in Iasi thusfar, and hope that with your support we can do even more:

"Thanks to the generous RAR support, we were able to start the cats spay project in Iasi today. In the past I was overwhelmed by the number of appeals I received from different rescuers and careers due to the huge number of stray cats in this city. The situation is quite horrible especially during the winter months when they have no place to hide and warm up, no food, at the mercy of harsh weather conditions. There is no cat shelter in Iasi, this is why people are constantly facing difficulties when trying to rescue as many as possible. Every year thousands of kittens are born and die on the streets due to horrid painful diseases, starvation or poisoning. In Iasi, there isn't any low cost cats spay/neuter program. Therefore, people here do not always do the right thing because they have no money. The number of stray cats increases rapidly, and we are confronted daily with more and more cases of neglect, abandonment, severely injured cats. Personally I have witnessed during the past month many cases of cats with mammary tumors, some very serious cases, only because the cats hadn't been spayed while still young. I am very grateful for the support of Romania Animal Rescue, but I understand their support is dependent upon donations from the public. I hope you can help the cats of my city, Iasi, Romania by donating to Romania Animal Rescue and stating "For Iasi Cats". All my love to you, guys, wherever you are! Spay/neuter--no more suffering!"

Lelia, Iasi, Romania

Thank you for your support for this project to help the cats.  We are very grateful for your help.

Links:

• our website