This is the true story of a wonderful lady from Romania and the dogs and other animals she saved!
This story begins almost 10 years ago, when Mrs Bogza bought a land and built a small cottage and a yard where she decided to bring her dogs from the mountain to have them near Bucharest. Here was supposed to be a quiet place where she can come with her family for the weekends and holidays to enjoy countryside. Also Mrs.Bogza has been so kind and helped another lady (who was looking for a place where to take her 200 dogs she saved from streets as the place where she was keeping them was sold by owner) by renting her a land and helping her to build a fence for her shelter.
But all this dream ended when she started to go often to visit the constructions and she found many abandoned dogs and cats in her way from Bucharest to Butimanu. She couldn’t drive near old and sick animals or young puppies and kittens who were in danger near highway or in the fields, so she started to build paddocks also on her land. From her own 10 dogs and 2 paddocks, she has now a shelter with more than 100 paddocks!
In 2013 when in Romania the government started to kill in barbaric way the strays who’s only fault was that they were abandoned in the streets by “humans” Mrs.Bogza started to save every dog and cat found abandoned in the streets of Bucharest and took them to safety in her shelter in Butimanu, shelter in which in a couple of years there were over 400 dogs.
Mrs.Bogza was looking to give for adoptions the saved animals but unfortunately first adoption was in Romania and the adopter was not able to care for the two dogs he took from her shelter. So she was thinking of giving the dogs for adoption abroad. Another bad luck for her was that a person told her not to send dogs abroad as they “will be killed and will become gloves” . So for some years no dog left the shelter and the number of the saved dogs kept raising.
For almost 8 years, Mrs.Bogza cared and fed over 400 dogs without asking a penny !!! She spent all her family savings to pay the workers from this shelter and from another smaller shelter she created in Bucharest, buying food and paying vet care for all the animals she saved, registering, spaying/neutering and vaccinated all the dogs from shelter without asking for help! She also created the SEMPER FIDELIS DOMUS , a non profit association. Last year was one of the worst for this wonderful lady, she has problems with her health and also was dragged to court by a relative who wants to take all her goods left by her husband. Her savings are all gone and her apartment is blocked by court until the final decision. Mrs.Bogza is having just a small pension which allows her just to care for herself now.
About 280 dogs who are still in Semper Fidelis Domus shelter in Butimanu needs food and vet care.
The workers needs to be pay monthly.
The other shelter, the smaller one(situated in Bucharest) is now in the care of lovely friends from Lippstadter Pfotenhilfe Germany, so 70 dogs and 40 cats are saved! And the association also try to send a bit of help for dogs in Butimanu shelter too!
Unfortunately the dogs in the shelter in Butimanu (about 280 dogs) are still in danger! Indeed many wonderful animals’ lovers came and donated this month over 650 Euro and food for dogs for about 2 more weeks. But the salaries(including taxes) for workers for one month are about 1,000 Euro. And dogs’food is about 3,500 Euro/month.
Mrs.Bogza is trying hard to find a happy ending to this story, but if the dogs will not find fosters, adopters, virtual adopters or associations which to sponsor or take over the shelter, she might need to decide to give the dogs to ASPA, where in 15 days they are put to sleep and I have no idea how she will accept this with her kindness and devotion she has for all these beautiful dogs! :’(
PLEASE HELP MRS.BOGZA TO KEEP THESE DOGS ALIVE!!!!!
PLEASE THINK OF ALL THE EFFORTS MRS.BOGZA MADE TO SAVE AND CARE FOR THEIR LIFE!!!!
THEY DON’T DESERVE TO DIE!!!!