PRO ANIMALS

"About one year ago someone received a letter from Tg-Jiu and gave it to us just as a notice. It was an S.O.S. The animal lovers from the city were terrified by the illegal way that the local authorities were acting. The collected dogs were transported somewhere, no one knows where, killed right in the day that are caught, with the most barbarian ways.
It was talking also about a private funded shelter, physical and moral overfulfilled of the situation. We remembered us, when with some time ago, we were trying to save the dogs from death and were knocking together a shelter, when we took a responsability much higher than we could offer, when we didn’t have the necessary food to feed the dogs from the shelter, when there was no legislation against dogs’ killing, and we didn’t have any power to say NO from the legally point of view.

Several persons from our association headed in a weekend towards the Dog Shelter from Tg-Jiu. Because we knew that it is financially supported almost only from the own budget of one family, because only this family was working actually at the shelter, we were waiting to find something miserable. The reality amazed us:
A shelter with 250 well-kept dogs, a clean shelter, where all the commonplace things, useless for the most of us, found its utility. The romanian endeavour with the strong motivation of doing as much as possible from nothing.
What impressed us very strong was the sociability of the dogs. An imprisoned dog can be indifferent and refractory. They were happy and for them, "home", meant that place. Almost all the dogs had names. Each had a history or a story well-known by their benefactors.
For two people to take care of them, to give each one attention daily, to offer a special care for those with problems, to earn money to keep them, to involve outside the shelter, is above the general level of understanding. But the love helps you find the power to do everything.

Unfortunately, in Tg-Jiu, the only dogs that are safe are those from the shelter. And these people who offer them a home and who are looking continuously over its fence, try to save as many dogs as possible from the others, who are heading everyday towards dead. But how many? Can two people feed and take care of an entire city. Not even they do not realize this. When the flayers’ van full of dogs pass in front of them, their knees reach the ground in a heavenly begging :" Leave us the dogs". The suffering is too much for them………to see, ignore and say to yourself "I can’t take them all".

Carmen Arsene
Asociatia Ute Langenkamp: Iubiti Maidanezii"