Romania Animal Rescue, Inc Dba Animal Spay Neuter International
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.
Save injured animals, improve lives,find loving homes, train vets on surgery, education programs, provide food, spay/neuter services to save unwanted animals from abandonment, neglect, abuse, or ending up in hellish “shelters”. 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. U
pon returning to the Bay Area, we began registration for Romania Animal Rescue Inc. as a 501 (c) 3 charity. Romania Animal Rescue Inc has been working in Romania since 2003. Our headquarters in Romania is located at the Center of Hope near Bucharest, although we also work at Family Vet in Craiova, and have mobile veterinary campaigns throughout Romania (as funding permits). We run these programs:
*Spay/neuter (approaching 145,000)
*Homeless Animals Hospital that treats animals that have no help either due to being strays or cared for by impoverished guardians that are unable to afford treatment. It is our social animal hospital program held at Center of Hope hospital that was built in 2016-2017. Romania Animal Rescue Inc. fundraised for the building of the massive Center of Hope Social Hospital, its Spay/Neuter extension, and the Veterinary Campus.
*Mobile spay/neuter campaigns (Spayathons) in towns and villages whereby the Veterinary Team stays for days at a location to spay/neuter dogs and cats for the community and catching strays as possible.
*Veterinary Training Program scholarships provided for Romanian vets and others from impoverished countries, held at Center of Hope veterinary campus. This program trains vets on highly skilled veterinary surgical techniques using a spay hook for minimally invasive surgery so that they may return to their communities with a high skill level.
*Education programs and outreach services. We hold field trips to Center of Hope as well as Family Vet hospital in Craiova, and go to schools and events to teach children about animal welfare.
*Veterinary Patrol program that goes to villages and communities providing on the spot veterinary care and sterilization with the HOPE ambulance. We recently received a new (used) caravan from Germany that is being converted into a massive mobile clinic.
*Provide food and services for a shelter of 400+ dogs and cats.
*Work with international adoption partners who find loving homes for many of the dogs we treat. All our work is possible only through donations. No staff or Board Members from Romania Animal Rescue or Animal Spay and Neuter International UK receive a salary, as they are all volunteers. Only the vets in Romania are paid for their work. Please review the 990 on our website for details of expenditures: www.romaniaanimalrescue.org
10/09/2025
Help needed for this little soul 💔
We were approached to assist a tiny boy who was at risk of being euthanized due to his owner’s inability to provide necessary medical care. Fortunately, the local veterinarian intervened and reached out to us for support.
As a result, we have taken on the responsibility of providing care and covering the associated medical costs. Given the prospect of this brave little one leading a fulfilling life, albeit on three legs, we could not decline.
Our colleague Irina promptly responded, collecting the dog and transporting him to the Center of Hope. Surgery is scheduled for tomorrow, followed by a recovery and rehabilitation period.
If all proceeds smoothly, he will soon be ready to travel to the Netherlands on the Happy Bus, where a loving forever home awaits.
In the interim, we are seeking your assistance. Even a modest donation can significantly impact covering his medical expenses and providing the future he deserves.
Together, we can offer this little boy the life and love he has been waiting for.
Ik ben nog maar 4 maanden oud en blijf lekker klein van stuk maar mijn hart is héél groot! 💞
Op een dag werd ik gered van de straat, samen met mijn broertjes en zusjes. We dwaalden hier moederziel alleen rond en maakte geen weinig kans. We zijn een team van 6. Allemaal met onze eigen karaktertjes.
Onze rescuer Diana zorgt heel goed voor ons, maar telt inmiddels 42 zieltjes die (naast haar fulltime baan) gevoerd en verzorgd moeten worden. Best veel hè.. dus wordt het tijd dat wij een eigen huisje krijgen.
Een beetje meer over mij;
Ik ben een lief en braaf meisje, speels en een tikkeltje verwend (zoals het hoort, toch?). Ik smelt in je armen en zou daar het liefst nóóit meer weggaan. 🥰
Ik hou ervan om in het middelpunt van de aandacht te staan. Knuffels, kusjes, spelen, samen zijn… dát is wat mij gelukkig maakt!
Ben jij degene die mij een warm mandje en heel veel liefde wil geven? Ik beloof dat ik jullie allertrouwste vriendinnetje zal zijn.
Back then, she was fighting for her life.
Now, she’s enjoying every moment.
It was anything but easy…
Her life hung by a thread from the moment she was dumped in the pouring rain, in a crate, left out in an open field. So close to the shelter, yet just far enough to be out of sight of our cameras.
There were ten tiny ones.
Ten fragile, skinny little bodies…
Sadly, two of them didn’t make it. And for a while, it seemed Hazel wouldn’t either. But that little girl turned out to be stronger than anyone could have imagined.
Her new cozy bed was already waiting for her, in sunny southern France.
Her golden ticket was booked.. two, in fact!
One for the Happy Bus and one for her flight to a new life.
But it wasn’t meant to be just yet…
Her little body was too weak. She had to fight a little longer. 💔
Two weeks later, the time finally came.
Hazel was strong enough. And there they were. Her new family, waiting for her with open arms and hearts full of love. ✨
In southern France, her immune system remained fragile. But with endless care, patience, and love, she recovered step by step. Now we see her enjoying every single moment. Together with her doggy sister, she runs through the open fields, dozes off in the warm sun, and rolls happily in the grass.
Oh, how grateful we are that her family never gave up on her and that they saw what we had seen all along: a tiny girl, yet so brave and full of life. 💖
Stichting Le Woef 💝💝💝
Romania Animal Rescue, Inc Dba Animal Spay Neuter International
10/08/2025
Let’s make 2025 the Best Spay and Neuter Year Ever for the dogs of Romania 🙏😍
The absolutely amazing Ylva Gefvert is offering an incredible “donate for one, get two” match 🥳🎉. These sterilizations will be done by the Romania Animal Rescue, Inc Dba Animal Spay Neuter International Dream Team at the RAR at Center of Hope hospital.
We will start with a matching campaign for 400 spays and neuters 🫶, so we need to raise funds for 200 s/n from our fantastic donors 🙏
Each spay is $25, 23 Euros, or 20 Pounds.
Please support this project to save dogs from ever being born to suffer🫶
And so, in addition to the shot dog, two other souls were rushed to the Center of Hope.
We daren't even share one of them with you... the grief is too great. But this girl also desperately needs our help! And we need your help! 🙏
Nobody knows exactly what happened to her.
But one thing is certain: she has been living in pain for a long time.
Fortunately, she is now safe with us, surrounded by care and love, and receiving all the medical help she so desperately needs.
But we can't do it alone...
The treatments and tests are very expensive,
and every contribution helps these helpless animals on their road to recovery.
💔 Who will help us transform their pain into hope?
Before the eyes of rescuer Cristina, this brave girl collapsed.
She had been hit multiple times shot with pellets.
Countless tiny bullets were found in her fragile little body…
Unbelievable, isn’t it? 😢
She’s now at the Center of Hope, where all the pellets have been carefully removed.
But one wound runs deeper than the rest…
She was hit in her back, and right now she has no control over her hind legs.
Still, she keeps fighting.
She eats, she looks up with gratitude, she wants to live.
And we’re all hoping with her that feeling will slowly return, and the paralysis will fade. 🙏
One thing we know for sure:
She will never have to go back to the streets again.
No more pain, no more fear, no more hunger.
From now on, only warmth, love, and peace.
❤️🩹
10/07/2025
Romania Animal Rescue, Inc Dba Animal Spay Neuter International continues our efforts to save injured animals, improve their lives, help find them loving homes, train other vets on highly skilled veterinary procedures, run education programs, provide for 400+ dogs and cats, and most importantly provide spay and neuter services to save unwanted animals from abandonment, neglect, abuse, or ending up in hellish “shelters”. The use of the word “shelter “ in Romania is misleading at best. RAR has now provided over 145,000 spays and neuters.
Please consider supporting our multi faceted hard work. www.romaniaanimalrescue.org/donate
10/07/2025
10/07/2025
🇷🇴 The “big” renovation from Le Woef in Saints shelter is complete!
What a week! What an adventure!
Together with an amazing team of volunteers, we travelled to Romania to renovate part of the shelter. Despite some setbacks and delays caused by bad weather, everyone worked late into the night to get as much done as possible 💪🏼.
Not everything went exactly as we’d hoped, but what did get done makes us incredibly proud. The roof is on, new kennels have been built, a new camera system is in place, and part of the water system has already been installed. And best of all… the playground is finished! 🙌🏻
(Well, except for the finishing touches and furnishing — but that will be next spring!)
This truly is a dream come true. Finally, we can give the dogs who have spent years locked up a bit of freedom — the freedom they so deserve and have longed for 💖.
We want to thank everyone immensely for their hard work. It was a tough job! Through wind and rain, everyone showed up early in the morning and kept going until late at night.
Together, we made this possible — and for that, we are endlessly grateful.
A huge thank-you as well to everyone who contributed financially. Without your support, none of this would have been possible 💝.
Slowly, everyone is making their way back home, but we’re taking a little time to inaugurate the new playground — a very special moment we definitely don’t want to miss.
🎉🥳🤩.
10/06/2025
10/06/2025
37 fortunate souls will no longer give birth to unwanted offspring in Romania, a country that cannot or will not provide for them. Today’s Spayathon is held in honor of Andrea Gung from Duo Duo Project who recently visited Center of Hope - Spital Veterinar Piteasca hospital to learn more about our Romania Animal Rescue, Inc Dba Animal Spay Neuter International Veterinary Training Camp program. Duo Duo Project will be starting the first veterinary training program in China to enable more vets to learn safe, high volume spay/neuter techniques, like we do in Romania 💝
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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
Bucharest. This new Center is a state of the art Center for Romania and Eastern Europe. The Center features the latest in diagnostic equipment and the highly skilled vets from our Bucharest hub Dream Team call this home. Our goal is to spay and neuter 500 animals per month at the Center of Hope, many brought in from villages by our Spay Shuttle.
But what to do about the injured animals living on the streets? What to do about the pets of people who loved them but could not afford to treat them for injuries? Many people come across injured animals, yet are reluctant to help them because they are unable to afford the cost burden or take the animals to their homes. RAR needed to reach out to the Good Samaritan, by providing a “no commitments” service to help the animals. While we always helped to finance veterinary care, we needed to do more. The Homeless Animals Hospital was born. HAH provides free or subsidized care for homeless animals brought in by the public or local rescuers *as our funding allows*. Foster care homes and friends from local shelters often help us to provide safe havens for animals that need a place to go following treatments, and then these animals are put up for adoption if possible. It is also one of our experiences that often times the Good Samaritan decides to adopt the animal they helped!
HAH also provides free spay/neuter services as donations allow.
We knew that education was needed as well so that the public would understand the importance of spay/neuter, to learn to have compassion for the animals whose fate was not of their choosing, and how to humanely treat them. We began our education program with the help of FPCC who allowed us to use their education books. Help from Mayhew International, UK and Global Giving donors allowed us to print and distribute now approximately 18,500 education booklets to schools, charities, an orphanage, and community events.
Another program we sponsor is the Veterinary Training Camp. VTC is the creation of Dr. Aurelian Stefan, Dr. Petrisor Stefan, and Veterinary Technician Ruth Osborne. RAR sponsors Romanian veterinarians who need to heighten their skill level for spay/neuter surgeries and other surgeries. At the VTC, vets are trained on the skills to perform keyhole incisions for faster recovery time and minimal discomfort for the animals. By reaching out to train more vets in Romania, even more animals in more communities will be helped.
And now, here are some statistics in regards to the dogs: Each female and her offspring, according to Dogs on Death Row, PETA, and HSUS, can produce in 6 years up to 67,000 puppies. Granted, even if born, many of these puppies would die of parvo, distemper and other diseases or infestations, be hit by cars and receive other injuries. One spay of one female dog can prevent the suffering of thousands. This is why we do what we do....to decrease suffering and stop the uncontrolled breeding of unwanted animals that are abandoned .
Our sister charity Animal Spay and Neuter International UK has provided spays/neuters for animals in Romania, Bulgaria, Suriname, Dominican Republic, Portugal, UK, USA, Greece, and Donations are needed to be able to provide this service: www.romaniaanimalrescue.org
