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Sami was the first homeless dog we brought to the US. Then followed Oliver, Mia and Clara.

But thousands more are still living precarious lives on the streets of Romania. Help me bring more of Sami's friends over and find them loving adoptive families.

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Our story

Sami and her friends are (for most part) Romanian stray dogs adopted in the US.

It all started with Sami, who showed up outside my mom’s gate, one cold and wet November morning. At that time, my mom was living in a village in Eastern Romania, one of the poorest regions of Europe.

In those parts of the country, people are so poor that they can hardly feed their children, let alone their dogs. So Sami ended up abandoned on the streets like most dogs. For a while, she tried to feed herself from the trash bins but the bigger dogs defended their territory viciously. Soon, the hunger, the parasites and bitter November cold started taking their toll. So when she showed up at my mom’s gate she was a pitiful sight.

So mom took her in, although she was already feeding 5 stray cats and 2 stray dogs which I found and brought to her house the year before.

Sami spent 5 happy months there, making friends with the other animals, enjoying good food and long walks on the fields. But mom had to downsize and move to a small block apartment - an inadequate dwelling for 8 animals.

It was a fortunate coincidence that my 2018 trip to Romania happened just weeks before my mom’s relocation. Sami was still living with her at that time and when I met her, I fell in love with her instantly and decided that there’s no way she’d go back on the streets. She needed a family of her own and a yard big enough, like the one she called home for the last 6 months. The only solution was to bring her to the US.

3 months later she was arriving at the airport in Seattle (the photo above is taken 30 min after her arrival) ready to start her new life in the US.

Her first friends (Blanka and Oliver) soon and found their way out of Romania and into loving homes in the US and the UK.

This how the story of Sami and her friends started. With your help, I’m planning to add other four-legged characters to this story, new friends joining Sami to the US. Because dogs are such wonderful creatures and their life stories deserve nothing but happy endings.

Thank you for reading our story.

Oana Gusatu, Project Founder

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