Turceni
2009
25th of February 2009
We decided to go again after one week to Turceni, to see how things were after our first visit but also to take a small puppy that broke our heart last time. Arriving to shelter, we noticed that they just didn’t care: no one was there, the dogs were straying in excrements at 12 pm ( although a keepr should come in the morning to clean), and what was most disturbing and heartbreaking wa that the buckets were empty, no water and dogs were drinking their frozen urine. i couldn’t belive that the small puppy wasn’t there anymore, and new dogs were in. We went to the Public Service and met the directors to whom we explained again the situation. The adjunctr director didn’t belive what I was saying so we returned together there.
We found the keeper staying and the shelter was the same, dirty and without water. I said it is not possible this lack of care. The keepr was very dunk. The director said they will improve things and that at 2 pm the vet will come and dogs will be feeded. They belived we returned to Tg-Jiu, but at 2pm we returned to shelter, where we just couldn’t belive what we saw. The keeper was simply staying, dogs were full of excrements and no one was doing anything. We called again the adjunct director, very angry, who came with another man who started to clean with the shovels. The adjunct director started to put water with the bucket to the dogs, who were very thirsty. Seeing the things don’t improve and the poor dogs’ conditions, many sick, weak, skinny, we decided to call the Police.
The POlice came and they made a verbal-written notice about my complaints and the Service Public employees statements. There came also the vet who is paid with 400 Euros/month and spend only few minutes in this shelter, where dogs seem to suffer from lack of medical care and food. We will follow their activity close…
18th of Februry 2009
In November 2008, the new mayor decided to build a shelter where dogs are collected, in Turceni, a small town at 60 km distance from Tg-Jiu. We decided to visit it in February 2009.Through a local council decision the stray dogs’ admininstration service was given to the Public Service. The City Hall gives 10.000 Ron every month to the Catching Service for its activity. Since November about 60 dogs had been caught and kept in that shelter. On a window nearby the shelter, there was written on a paper that the food ratio is of 360gr/dog/day, without mentioning any difference for 2 kg puppy or 50 kg dogs.
When we arrived there was no keeper, the dogs kennels were dirty, the water was frozen and dirty. Big dogs were mixed with small dogs, and puppies and sick dogs with healthy dogs.
There were also some awful skinny dogs, that could hardly walk on their feets, what makes us think that was totally impossible to be fed as mentioned on that paper, probably those dogs hadn’t been eat for days.
2006
We have heard some times before that in Turceni stray dogs are being poisoned, shot to death, chased and killed with with shovels etc but due to problems we had we didnt have the opportunity to go there. It is a locallity at about 80 km distance from Tg-Jiu. But, one morning we have received a phone call informing us that during night stray dogs but also dogs with owners were poisoned by the city hall’s employees.
Although that day, we had in the midday the meeting with the Town Coucil from Tg-Jiu for approving the "Neuter and Return" contract, we decided to go there. Turceni is a small locality, with houses and just few blocks. At the entry in the locality, we saw on the right side of the road near a house the first dead dog. We called the owner who was living next and told us that is his dog and that dogs were poisoned entired night. We asked him to give us a written declaration but he refused saying that he dont want to have problems, that he is afraid and dont want to make any comment.
Later on, we met another man ( who was trying to hide not to be seen by someone that he is talking to us) who gave us photos with dead dogs between blocks made during night and also said that city hall’s employees were collecting the dead bodies with a tractor and brought them at the rubbish dump. We were at the rubbish dump, but we couldnt find anything sign that bodies had been thrown into a hole and covered with earth ( like happened in other localities).
We decided to go to the Police where we talked with a policeman who said that they dont know anything about this action. What surprised us was that right at the entry at the Police, there was a poor female dead in the bushes. A lady from there told that there are plenty of dead dogs in the colony.
So, together with the Policeman we went to the City Hall. We couldnt find the mayor, so we discussed with the vicemayor. When the policeman told him who were we and why we came, despite the fact that at the beginning he said he dont know anything about this poisoning action, he was very surprised and was keep asking us: " who told you, from where you found out?!?!" He called also the chief of the Stray Dogs Control who was all black of anger and said that no, he dont know anything about it. We all went together, collected the dead dog, put in a palstic bag and took it in Tg-Jiu for analises at the Sanitary Veterinary Laboratory. We left an intimation to the Police asking them to start searching who organized this action, what substances did they use and where they disposed the dead bodies. Although it passed enough time, we still wait their answer and continue to make pressure. If they dont give a satisfactory answer, we will go on with the searching on our own and intimations at the competent authorities.
2005
