Highlights:

• Message from Nancy and Dr. Aurelian
• Take Action
• Dita's Rescue
• Keisha and Walnut
• The Dog Lady of Romania
• Slatina
• One Vet's Fight To Make a Difference
• A Look Ahead
• What We Need Now
• Our Thanks

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Dita's Rescue

Dita rescued this puppy she found, living on the street in Bucharest. He was limping around near a meeting of business people, who felt sorry for the puppy. Only our friend, Dita, picked him up and took him home. The onlookers were surprised that someone would just take a puppy off the street into their home!. The puppy had a broken leg, several dog bites, multiple hernias, fleas, and worms - all at the age of 7 weeks. He is now 11 weeks and almost fully healed. He has joined a black kitten, also from the streets.

Dita's compassion shows that one person CAN make a difference. Dita has made the difference!

Keisha and Walnut

The Dog Lady of Romania

Nancy Janes has been dubbed "The Dog Lady of Romania". Romania Animal Rescue helps towns large and small in Romania with their animal welfare efforts. RAR has worked in and/or helped charities in western Romania, places like Arad and Oradea; northern Romania, Cluj-Napoca; eastern Romania, Galati and Braila; southern Romania, Bucharest, Craiova, Giurgiu, and central Romania, Sibiu and Brasov. Thank you, Charles, for applying this moniker to the President, CEO and Founder of Romania Animal Rescue, Nancy Janes.

Slatina

Gratiela Ristea, from Slatina Romania, sent us these photos. They are very disturbing, as once in the dog pounds, these dogs will suffer terribly. Please help us to spay/neuter so that more dogs will not end up like this! If you would like to donate to help us transport dogs that are already in pounds for adoption outside of Romania, we will be very happy to rescue as many as we can afford.

Neuter or Spay - No More Strays!!

Best Friends has just published this article on Dr. Aurelian Stefan:

Veterinarian Stefan Aurelian's love of animals started early. "I come from a modest family," states Dr. Aurelian, of Bucharest, Romania. His parents divorced when he was six and holidays were spent with his grandmother in the countryside while his mother worked. "I spent all day among animals–cows, horses, dogs and cats," he recalls. "I always felt I could communicate with the animals and I realized I could make a difference for them by becoming a vet."

His brother, Petrisor, is also a vet. The two operate a small practice together where "we offer very low cost treatments and surgeries for stray animals. You can always find injured homeless animals in our practice. They often spend weeks with us until they get well," says Stefan.

Read the entire article

We have a lot of events planned for 2010. Our goal is to perform 2000 spay/neuter procedures, half of them during our three week Spayathon, April through May. We will have the professionalism of our vets, Dr. Aurelian and Dr. Pepe, as well as Dr. Olson from the USA to reach this goal. RAR will be working in cooperation with GIA in Bucharest, and with other charities in Tecuci (Asociatia pentru Protectia Animalelor "Tomita") and at a shelter for almost three weeks. We can make a HUGE difference with the support of our donors!

The Spay Day 2010 is in Craiova this year and Drs. Aurelian and Pepe are planning on spaying up to 100 dogs this month for the HSUS/HSI Spay Day! Our vets will be teaching new surgical procedures and spay/neuter skills to five Romanian veterinarians while doing the Spayathon.

So, we really need funds to get all this work done, along with the ongoing spay/neuter and treatment for the Glina dogs, courtesy of RAR and Drs. Aurelian and Pepe. We will be holding spayathons in Hateg, Cluj-Napoca and Turda, Giurgiu and other cities and towns that we have been asked to help. The only way RAR can help the animals is with support from YOU! Thank you for all your help! It means the world to the animals!

Veterinary supplies for Spay Day 2010. The event will be held in Craiova, Romania on February 24. Please help to supply this Spayathon and others we will be holding this year by ordering from our Wishlist page.

Thank you Frannie, Gosia, Dr. Aurelian and Dr. Petrisor, WVS - UK, Livia, Raluca! Rob, Lilly, Worldwide Veterinary Services (UK), Keith Tyler of Merial (Previcox and HeartGard - yes!!), AnnaBell, Raluca Simion, Raluca Cristea, Livia, June, Lori, Richard, Faith, Gosia, Frannie, Marilena and Victoria, Laura, Denise, Eugen, Camelia, AJ, Mary and Bill, Mary, Mo, Joanna, Stephen, Rory, Elizabeth Sundstrom for your articles and donations, Linda Wasche for your articles and donation of T-shirts, Suzana, Suzanne, Bonnie, and Barbara for the donation of dogloos that we will ship to the APAM shelter in Romania, Jane, Chris, Rao, Judith, Diana, Dionisia, Leonard, Nancy, Dita, Samuel, Lauren, Christina, Cristina, Sonja, Corina, Lawrence, Dorothy, Margaret, Loretta, Rebecca, Ellen, Andrew, Charles, Viola, Allan, Raluca, Mira, Ioana, Eleanora, Joanne, Dave and Sanda, Andreea, Stephanie, Margaret, and Connie.

Really, you are the very kindest people in the world to care so much about the animals whom most of you have never met. I am amazed by your generosity. Thank you.