Over 145,000 spays/neuters We immediately noticed the sad state of the dogs……unwanted animals abandoned to life on the streets, in forests, and fields.
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THE ROMANIA ANIMAL RESCUE STORY, HOW WE CAME TO BE 🙂 By Founder Nancy Janes: In 2001, myself and 2 friends from the San Francisco Bay area took a hiking trip in Romania. We immediately noticed the sad state of the dogs......unwanted animals abandoned to life on the streets, in forests, and fields. While nurturing some dogs in a park one day, a young lady approached me. She thought I was poisoning the dogs.....she told me that the dogs were being killed and that she and her neighbors were hiding as many as possible from the authorities and could not take any more, so she was looking out for these dogs that were in the park. I told her I was an American, and I would go back to the USA and contact the international charities that I supported and ask them for help for Romanian animals. She replied “Everyone says they will help the Romanian dogs. They go home, they forget. You will go home, you’ll forget”. My reply, “I will not forget”. Upon my return to the USA, I approached many international charities, and they all refused my request to help in Romania. After sending donations to a Romanian charity I met online in 2002, my husband and I began Romania Animal Rescue as a registered 501 © 3 charity in the USA in 2003. Our mission is to “promote and establish animal welfare in the country of Romania.” Like many other people and charities, we started out by financing a shelter. But there was never any change, no progress in the never- ending supply of unwanted animals that were continually abandoned. Without putting a cap on the never – ending flow of more puppies, kittens, dogs, and cats, no progress to “promote and establish animal welfare” was apparent to us. Impoverished citizens did not have the means to spay/neuter their animals and often could not find skilled vets, so therefore could only resort to one of two choices.....either kill the puppies and kittens or abandon them. Our charity needed to step in and offer some help for these people.
In 2004 RAR began sending veterinarians from the USA to train Romanian vets on spay/neuter techniques. While still helping shelters with infrastructure costs, food, supplies, and doing adoptions, we started trying to move the public to understand the importance of spay/neuter, and began increasing our support for spay/neuter as much as possible....but one of the problems was finding skilled vets to work with, as well as knowledgeable charities and individuals who could understand that spay/neuter would stop the crisis of never-ending suffering. In 2004 we started spay/neuter in one community. In 2006 we began moving from shelter help to provide spay/neuter on a grander scale, as our funding would allow......something desperately lacking in Romania. While accompanying Dr. Richard Bachman (USA vet) in Romania during a vet training trip in 2008, I was told of a young vet who had recently returned from a 4 month veterinary training trip in the USA, a Dr. Aurelian Stefan. Dr. Bachman and I met with Dr. Stefan (now Dr A) for coffee.....Dr. Bachman asked the right questions and got the right answers. He advised me to give this new vet a try. In 2009 we began working with Dr. Aurelian Stefan and his brother, Dr. Petrisor Stefan. Our first spayathon was held in Sibiu with the charity Animal Life. Soon more vets were added to the “ RAR Dream Team” of highly skilled veterinarians. In 2010 RAR did 2 massive spayathons, one in Bucharest for over 700 animals with the charity GIA, and one in Tecuci for over 650 animals with Association Tomita. Our mission was now taking hold! And I can proudly report that RAR/ASNI is now over 80,000 spays/neuters . We often have spayathons now in villages and towns simultaneously, providing excellent surgeries to those who cannot afford the pay for them. Our hub cities are near Bucharest at the Center of Hope and Craiova at Family Vet clinic. We also run mobile campaigns with the Red Van and with HOPE our spaymobile.
Our main focus is to get funds for spay/neuter, as the EU does NOT provide funding for spay/neuter in Romania and never has, and only through donations is our work possible.
In late 2015, construction began to build the amazing Center of Hope. In February 2017, the first patients began arriving. The Center of Hope is located outside of
