September
3, 2013 - he Romanian President, Traian Basescu , urged the Government
to elaborate an emergency ordinance that ALL dogs be killed.
September 4, 2013 - today marks the beginning of a very dark time for Romania's homeless animals. Following the tragic death of little Ionut, a four-year-old boy who was killed by dogs after he entered a private, fenced land, Romanian President, Traian Basescu, urged the Government to elaborate an emergency ordinance that ALL dogs be killed.
Since the tragic accident, all Romanian televisions and newspapers are continuously talking about this tragedy. They do shows, tell stories, interview people who feel disturbed by dogs, they show false statistics, they distort the reality, and they inflame the entire population.
But too little is being mentioned that little Ionut was left too long unsupervised by his grand mother; they he and his 6 year-old brother had left the park; wandered very far away; and entered a private, fenced property where dogs were. And this last statement bears repeating "dogs". Of course, it was quickly said that it was 'stray dogs', but these dogs could as well have been 'guard dogs', perhaps even deliberately encouraged to be aggressive. Since no-one is compelled to identify and to register his/her dogs (only the pure breeds are being registered, but ONLY with the Romanian Kennel Club) nobody can be taken accountable even if someone is being attacked or killed on private ground.
We do not know for sure... the dogs can have been guard dogs, and they can as well have been strays. But little Ionut's tragic death is sad beyond words, in any case.... and our hearts and thoughts go out to the family of the little boy.
But we know that the strays always take the blame because it is convenient for the politicians and it fuels the anti-stray propaganda machine... Because under the pretext of the “stray’s terror” generous budgets are being allocated and their biggest weapon is the manipulation of the population through mass-media.
A few years ago there was the case of a woman attacked by dogs in a private yard, because she entered the premises at night, without any authorization, which had been presented to the public as a woman killed by strays. The same type of story happened again when a drunk woman was attacked by dogs who had owners, and they also blamed the strays for her death. There were other such cases...
The case of the 4 year old child killed by dogs is more than blurry and strange. There are things in the official version that just don't add up and many people have started to ask questions and wonder. Even Romanian MEP Corneliu Vadim Tudor had publicly expressed doubts on the official version of the boy's death. We have compiled the inconsistencies which have emerged days after the death of the little boy at the bottom of this page and we invite you to read them, to watch the video and see the pictures, to read the different statements, and to build up your own opinion...
Don't blame the dogs...
blame your corrupt politicians!
In 2001, Traian Băsescu, the
then-mayor of Bucharest launched a campaign that led to the
extermination of about 144,000 stray dogs in the capital alone, spending
almost 9,000,000 Euros (62 Euros per dog) during the period from
2001-2007. The dog catchers in Brasov spent about 2 million EURO in 8
years. Between 2008-2010, 20,000 dogs have been killed in Constanta
spending 1,500,000 Euros (75 Euros per dog). Overall it is estimated
that Romania spent between 25 and 40 million EURO on strays from 2001
until 2008.
Between 2001 and 2011 the Romanian animal control people have killed hundreds of thousands dogs by spending tens of millions of EUROs in public funds, while the number of stray dogs only grew larger because the authorities quickly came to realize that the mere existence of the strays is a very profitable business!
Between 2001 and 2011 the Romanian animal control people have killed hundreds of thousands dogs by spending tens of millions of EUROs in public funds, while the number of stray dogs only grew larger because the authorities quickly came to realize that the mere existence of the strays is a very profitable business!
In this 2001 photo,
Madame Brigitte Bardot listens to Bucharest Mayor Traian Basescu, right,
after saying she wanted to save the lives of some of the 200,000 stray
dogs roaming the Romanian capital, some of which authorities had planned
to put to sleep.
Fact is: the campaign started by Basescu, the then-mayor of Bucharest, led to the extermination of more than 144.000 stray dogs in the capital alone, spending almost 9 million euros on taxpayer's money between 2011 and 2008 with the result that the streets of Bucharest are again littered with dead and life animals.
Fact is: the campaign started by Basescu, the then-mayor of Bucharest, led to the extermination of more than 144.000 stray dogs in the capital alone, spending almost 9 million euros on taxpayer's money between 2011 and 2008 with the result that the streets of Bucharest are again littered with dead and life animals.
... and blame the mighty dog-catchers, too!
Although the problem
of the aggressive dogs is supposedly the number one priority, the animal
control folks rarely catch aggressive dogs. Instead they almost always
take puppies and little, friendly dogs that are easy and safe to catch.
This approach has the double benefit of keeping the dangerous dogs on
the streets in order to perpetuate the “terror of the strays” while
making the dog catchers appear as heroes and saviors in the eyes of the
people.
Some dog catchers catch everything they can get their hands on, including dogs with owners or protectors and dogs that are sterilized and returned to their territory according to HG 955/2004. There were cases where dogs were taken while walking next to their owners or where the dog catchers went into people’s yards and took their dogs. A lot of the owners tried to negotiate a return fee smaller than the official one and eventually, especially in Bucharest, a “protection fee” paid to the dog catchers became the norm.
Some dog catchers catch everything they can get their hands on, including dogs with owners or protectors and dogs that are sterilized and returned to their territory according to HG 955/2004. There were cases where dogs were taken while walking next to their owners or where the dog catchers went into people’s yards and took their dogs. A lot of the owners tried to negotiate a return fee smaller than the official one and eventually, especially in Bucharest, a “protection fee” paid to the dog catchers became the norm.
In the above picture: the certainly most "famous" corrupt Romanian big-style-dog-catcher, Flavius Barbulescu, from Brasov.
On Brasov and the business of gathering dogs:
Several mayors with business “abilities” transformed the local animal control departments into businesses that made money by catching and killing dogs from small towns that didn’t have their own shelters or by catching the dogs in a town without shelter and “hosting” the dogs in a different city, tens of km away. The corrupt mayors became so addicted to these profits that they imposed quotas on their dog catchers: the Brasov dog catchers hunted in 4-5 counties, bringing over 120,000 lei to Brasov’s budget. Most of the dogs were exterminated in the Stupini shelter and a small number were handed over to other cities that had shelters.
The whole operation was made profitable at the price of torturing the animals and breaking the Romanian animal protection laws. After loading up the dogs and before heading for Brasov, the Brasov dog catchers would be paid per number of dogs for capture, transportation, sheltering and euthanasia.
Since they were already paid and everyone saw them leaving with the dogs, nothing (certainly not their conscience) stopped the dog catchers from releasing most of the dogs on their way back to Brasov, to make sure that the problem continues and they are called back to “help”. Any animal lover would be happy to hear that, if they didn’t know that the dogs would be caught again and again, sometimes injured in the process, and would most likely continue to multiply.
The chief dog-catcher, Flavius Barbulescu, even got to buy his own jeep, a Mitubischi L200, for about 30,000 EURO, under the pretext of helping large animals, such as cows, pigs, bears, rhinoceros or giraffes that might have wondered into the public roundabouts build by mayor Scripcaru. Rumor has it that the jeep is used in certain weekends by two local authorities in their hunting trips.
Thankfully, some Romanian media
In an the enormous amounts of public money that are being spent on the supposed management of the stray animals are being questioned! The article states that, according to official data, the authority who's in charge of the management of stray animals claimed the city's total budget of 14.5 million lei - that is almost 3.3 million Euros!
And that interventions only come with great delay, despite desperate requests of citizens.
"At the moment we have an average response time between 30 and 40 days. I mean the "action on the field". But to be effective you need to get somewhere in less than 2 weeks," says Razvan Bancescu, coordinator of ASPA.
So if you have an aggressive dog erring around your property and your playing children, you can be assured that the ASPA will "help" you in 30 to 40 days from now...
BUT what people do not know: they don't come so late because they are so busy, or because they do not have enough staff, they come intentionally so late to make you believe so! ...And to have even more budgets being allocated!
To say it in the words of Malcolm Plant (BSc, BA (Hons), MSc, Dip Psych - Initiator of the 'Making the Link' Study and Intervention Project, Fellow of the Institute for Human-Animal Connection, University of Denver):
"Can you see what is wrong in this photo?
Tonight there sits a country of Europe where the moon drips with blood and the sun has turned black. At the edge of Europe. At the edge of civilization. At the edge of sanity!
In response to the death of a 4 year old child who had strayed onto private property, media hysteria was promoted by the government to kill all homeless animals. Romania is drenched in the blood of many animals where wholesale slaughter is taking place across the country at this moment.
Death is all around. It can be seen everywhere. It is palpable. But there is a hidden death. Invisible but deeper. Children born with natural regard and compassion for living creatures are exposed to these horrors. To protect themselves from emotional pain of seeing such abuse, they desensitize to them. They shut off their feelings of empathy and compassion. Once lost... never regained.
A society exists where regard for others is being washed away by the grotesque visions seen on the streets and the inadequacies and irresponsibilities of a government who preside over a new kind of theft, much more obscene. The theft of children's innocence and ability to care! Ability to exercise compassion and empathy. Humanity lies weeping in the corner at such a betrayal of trust!
Can you see what is wrong in this photo?"
It is not a quantum leap of imagination to suggest that constant exposure to abuse must have an impact upon any individual who witnesses it.
A pilot study conducted in Bistrita, Romania, with a control group in Berlin, Germany, in 2012-2013, has shown that animal abuse connects directly with children's psychological health and on societal security in those environments where strategic controls are not applied, and where animal welfare laws exist but are rarely reinforced, and which furnishes licence for animal abuse without repercussions, and thus provides the potential to increase violence and abuse against person and property within these societies.
86,3 % of children in the investigative 14-16 year old age group in Bistrita, Romania, had seen animal abuse in public 'many times'.
It is suggested that exposure to external stimuli causes conceptualisation, or schemata, to be ‘fixed‘ by the time the child is 8 years old. Exposure to abuse and aggression (human and animal) results in all the effects which have been
Children who, within a few years, develop from innocence and balance to psychological disturbance, displaying internal and external acute disharmony... a journey from peace, harmony and innocence, to anger, hatred and destruction.
By clicking on the link below, you can listen to an interview conducted by Thomas Janak, , with Malcolm Plant, talking about the 'Making The Link' Study - the European study to identify psychological effects of children regularly exposed to community animal abuse and evaluation of efficacy of intervention
Poisoned and bludgeoned dogs
UPDATE - 10th of September, 2013 (12:30 CET)
e following is an excerpt of an email received from Dr Carmen Arsene, president FNPA, received on 10th of September, 2013:
"The case of the 4 year old child killed by dogs is becoming more and more blurry and uncertain for many people who are starting to ask questions and wonder. The child was found approximately 1 km away from the park and in order to get there he would have had to walk a highly difficult road even for an adult! Especially for a child!? He should have passed a steep and then pass homeless people. Furthermore, the majority observes the attitude and behaviour of the parents, which are constantly present in the TV studios, especially the mother who is awkwardly relaxed and untroubled. In order to counter-balance this relaxation, some journalists resort to shocking titles, by expressing their own suffering, by photos. There are more and more details which do not make sense and which do not fit the story. And the grandmother who lost sight of the child is not in any way legally accused or pursued, not even interogated! On the contrary, the entire fault is attributed to the NGOs!!!!!!
A continuous and intense campaign, full of lies, calumnies, accuses, unimaginable scenarios regarding the animal lovers, especially the NGOs, is undertaken by the televisions, especially by “Antena 3” (please, send protests to site@antena3.ro ). The animal welfare NGOs are merely „bastards who steal the state's money”, which have „turned rich by exploiting the strays problem”, which have „done businesses with the mayors for huge amounts of money”, „impostors, fake animal lovers, only ruled by their own interests”. The loss of credibility towards the NGOs has occurred and thus the people are starting to talk about the NGOs like entities for which the „truth” is only now surfacing. Fake statistics, images with „fearsome” strays, interviwes with „terrorized” citizens, have fully occupied the TV broadcasts these days! Fake histories, forged documents are presented to the population!
For 10 days the televisions are debating and are histerically yelling and screaming on the same subject!
A campaign without precedent in Romania, led mainly by Antena 3, hides INCREDIBLE POLITICAL STAKES AND INTERESTS! An unimaginable vizual and psichological pressure! A mediatic destruction which was never met before!
We have managed to defeat a political force by stopping mass euthanasia in 2011! Now their strategy has changed by creating such a public pressure, which, supposedly, will put pressure on the political bodies! The loss of credibility of the NGOs, of the animal lovers, currently represent the priority of the country! Once these occurred, they lead to the meeting of various objectives having collosal financial implications!
They have manipulated the collective mentality in such a way that the people themselves have massacred strays in the streets, people are abusing and hitting them, the public dog pounds are emptied over night, a national dog cathing procedure has begun, the dog catchers even enter the properties of the people. They have entered so deeply in the psyche of the people that the people have started to denigrate each other, to mutilate one another!
The protests against the gold extraction by cyanides in Rosia Montana has brought 10.000 people in the streets, for 9 days. This is a protest without precedent in Romania but still the televisions only rarely present this subject. Nonetheless they are constantly debating the subject of the child killed by the strays!
Only the joint and distructive forces they resorted to in a premeditated manner show us just how high the stake really is!"
Please consider the following statements, ask yourself the following questions, and build up your own opinion:
A journalist and his team took the same "possible path" that little Ionut is supposed to have taken when he left the park. Already the first part of the "possible path" was very difficult for an adult and it took them more than one hour until they landed in front of a very high fence which separated them from the place where the little boy had been found. According to the journalist, a child would have had no chance to walk this path till the end and to even reach the fence. And: why would a child do it?
If it took an adult more than 1 hour walking, a child would need even more time, but let's just assume that the two children really managed to reach the place where Ionut was later found in one hour time.... Ionut gets attacked by strays, his brothers runs back to his grand mother. He would have needed at least 2 hours only to make the 2 ways. But it is said that the grand mother left them unsupervised for about 45 minutes...
If the boy had been mauled to death by dogs, he would have screamed. How comes that no-one has heard the boys cries for help although there are a couple of residential buildings and many many houses in close proximity to the place where the boy is supposed to having been killed?
According to the journalist, the coroner had found little Ionut in the yard with his pants down... and, according to the journalist, the only explanation seems to be that the little boy had been caught, perhaps even raped and then thrown over the fence into the yard where his lifeless body had later been found after hungry dogs had started feeding upon him...
According to this report and different other statements, it seems as if the deputies, the ASPA, the police, and forensics are protecting a dangerous pedophile and killer...
In the very first statement of Bucharest ISU spokesman Daniel Vasile, said that "It is a difficult to access area, there are few explanations about this story."
There was also a police officer who said that it would have been impossible for a child to get over such a high fence unless the child had been lifted or thrown over...
The circumstances of
little Ionut's death are rather strange and it raises many questions.
However, there are some assumptions that are supported by the statements
of those who first arrived at the scene, statements that were not
repeated and remembered.
MEP Corneliu Vadim Tudor takes a firm stand and says:
In an article published in the Romanian news on 6th of September, 2013, Corneliu Vadim Tudor, Member of the European Parliament, said: "The forensic report was concealed - Ionut was raped and killed by one or more persons!"
Vadim Tudor:
On Brasov and the business of gathering dogs:
Several mayors with business “abilities” transformed the local animal control departments into businesses that made money by catching and killing dogs from small towns that didn’t have their own shelters or by catching the dogs in a town without shelter and “hosting” the dogs in a different city, tens of km away. The corrupt mayors became so addicted to these profits that they imposed quotas on their dog catchers: the Brasov dog catchers hunted in 4-5 counties, bringing over 120,000 lei to Brasov’s budget. Most of the dogs were exterminated in the Stupini shelter and a small number were handed over to other cities that had shelters.
The whole operation was made profitable at the price of torturing the animals and breaking the Romanian animal protection laws. After loading up the dogs and before heading for Brasov, the Brasov dog catchers would be paid per number of dogs for capture, transportation, sheltering and euthanasia.
Since they were already paid and everyone saw them leaving with the dogs, nothing (certainly not their conscience) stopped the dog catchers from releasing most of the dogs on their way back to Brasov, to make sure that the problem continues and they are called back to “help”. Any animal lover would be happy to hear that, if they didn’t know that the dogs would be caught again and again, sometimes injured in the process, and would most likely continue to multiply.
The chief dog-catcher, Flavius Barbulescu, even got to buy his own jeep, a Mitubischi L200, for about 30,000 EURO, under the pretext of helping large animals, such as cows, pigs, bears, rhinoceros or giraffes that might have wondered into the public roundabouts build by mayor Scripcaru. Rumor has it that the jeep is used in certain weekends by two local authorities in their hunting trips.
Thankfully, some Romanian media
are becoming increasingly critical
In an the enormous amounts of public money that are being spent on the supposed management of the stray animals are being questioned! The article states that, according to official data, the authority who's in charge of the management of stray animals claimed the city's total budget of 14.5 million lei - that is almost 3.3 million Euros!
And that interventions only come with great delay, despite desperate requests of citizens.
"At the moment we have an average response time between 30 and 40 days. I mean the "action on the field". But to be effective you need to get somewhere in less than 2 weeks," says Razvan Bancescu, coordinator of ASPA.
So if you have an aggressive dog erring around your property and your playing children, you can be assured that the ASPA will "help" you in 30 to 40 days from now...
BUT what people do not know: they don't come so late because they are so busy, or because they do not have enough staff, they come intentionally so late to make you believe so! ...And to have even more budgets being allocated!
The killings have already started
The first dogs that
will have to pay are the ones that are already incarcerated in the
public shelters - those who are vaccinated, sterilized and that
constitute no danger to the public...
The mayoress of Craiova, Lia Olguta Aliescu, who hates dogs and who is well known for allowing horrible suffering to go on in the local public shelter over which she has the responsibility, did not waste any time and was the first Romanian mayor to announce that she had ordered the killing of all dogs in their local shelter. The killing of the more or less 500 unfortunate souls have started today, September 4, 2013. The next unfortunate souls will probably be the dogs at the public shelter in Râmnicu Vâlcea.
Next week, it's the turn of the dogs in Bucharest's public shelters. Followed by those on the streets. Razvan BANCESCU, head of the Authority for Supervision and Protection of Animals (ASPA) said that a lot more dogs will be taken from the streets, the aggressive ones - or better said: deemed aggressive - will be killed immediately and the others will be thrown in one of their shelters. The number of shelters in the capital will be increased from actually 8, to 50. And given that one shelter has only a capacity of more or less 160 dogs, and considering that there are around 60.000 stray dogs in the capital alone, those for whom there will be no place, will also be killed. Those who will not be killed immediately, will be killed if not adopted within a few days. In fact, ALL will the killed, some sooner, others a bit later.
The fate of the 13,000 homeless dogs of Timisoara is also already determined: mayor Nicolae Robu did not waste any time to sentence them all to death!
For the unfortunate animals who have the misfortune to enter such a public shelter, or publicly financed animal shelter, of which most are nothing less than illegal extermination camps run by untrained, poorly educated, underpaid and cruel shelter workers, and where they are being left to starve or to freeze to death, where they die of the consequences of diseases and injuries (often inflicted during the catching) and left without veterinary care, death will come as a welcome relief... because there are many things worse than death. But sadly, very sadly, death won't come swiftly. And it won't be fear nor painless...
Although the euthanasia of healthy animals had been deemed "unconstitutional" by the Romanian Constitutional Court, it seems to be 'okay' now... And there goes our trust in the Romanian Constitution, and in the authority and credibility of Romania's Courts and their Judges!
In addition to the mass killings happening right now in public shelters, the angry, murderous populace has got a free ticket to kill and dogs and cats are being bludgeoned, shot and poisoned in villages and towns all over Romania. Pregnant bitches, little puppies and socialized gentle dogs, none are being spared!
While crying out for revenge over the tragic death of little Ionut, they kill dogs and cats right in front of the children that they claim they are wanting to protect, not knowing that the uncontrolled exposure of children to uncontrolled animal abuse has serious ramifications on the psychological health of these children resulting in a serious psychological disturbance.
The mayoress of Craiova, Lia Olguta Aliescu, who hates dogs and who is well known for allowing horrible suffering to go on in the local public shelter over which she has the responsibility, did not waste any time and was the first Romanian mayor to announce that she had ordered the killing of all dogs in their local shelter. The killing of the more or less 500 unfortunate souls have started today, September 4, 2013. The next unfortunate souls will probably be the dogs at the public shelter in Râmnicu Vâlcea.
Next week, it's the turn of the dogs in Bucharest's public shelters. Followed by those on the streets. Razvan BANCESCU, head of the Authority for Supervision and Protection of Animals (ASPA) said that a lot more dogs will be taken from the streets, the aggressive ones - or better said: deemed aggressive - will be killed immediately and the others will be thrown in one of their shelters. The number of shelters in the capital will be increased from actually 8, to 50. And given that one shelter has only a capacity of more or less 160 dogs, and considering that there are around 60.000 stray dogs in the capital alone, those for whom there will be no place, will also be killed. Those who will not be killed immediately, will be killed if not adopted within a few days. In fact, ALL will the killed, some sooner, others a bit later.
The fate of the 13,000 homeless dogs of Timisoara is also already determined: mayor Nicolae Robu did not waste any time to sentence them all to death!
For the unfortunate animals who have the misfortune to enter such a public shelter, or publicly financed animal shelter, of which most are nothing less than illegal extermination camps run by untrained, poorly educated, underpaid and cruel shelter workers, and where they are being left to starve or to freeze to death, where they die of the consequences of diseases and injuries (often inflicted during the catching) and left without veterinary care, death will come as a welcome relief... because there are many things worse than death. But sadly, very sadly, death won't come swiftly. And it won't be fear nor painless...
Although the euthanasia of healthy animals had been deemed "unconstitutional" by the Romanian Constitutional Court, it seems to be 'okay' now... And there goes our trust in the Romanian Constitution, and in the authority and credibility of Romania's Courts and their Judges!
In addition to the mass killings happening right now in public shelters, the angry, murderous populace has got a free ticket to kill and dogs and cats are being bludgeoned, shot and poisoned in villages and towns all over Romania. Pregnant bitches, little puppies and socialized gentle dogs, none are being spared!
While crying out for revenge over the tragic death of little Ionut, they kill dogs and cats right in front of the children that they claim they are wanting to protect, not knowing that the uncontrolled exposure of children to uncontrolled animal abuse has serious ramifications on the psychological health of these children resulting in a serious psychological disturbance.
What is wrong with this photo?
In this picture: poisoned dogs
and cats displayed in front of (smiling) children in Motru town on 4th
of September, 2013. Picture source:
http://www.evz.ro/detalii/stiri/caini-otraviti-in-motru-lesurile-animalelor-au-fost-gasite-aliniate-pe-trotuar-1042267.html
To say it in the words of Malcolm Plant (BSc, BA (Hons), MSc, Dip Psych - Initiator of the 'Making the Link' Study and Intervention Project, Fellow of the Institute for Human-Animal Connection, University of Denver):
"Can you see what is wrong in this photo?
Tonight there sits a country of Europe where the moon drips with blood and the sun has turned black. At the edge of Europe. At the edge of civilization. At the edge of sanity!
In response to the death of a 4 year old child who had strayed onto private property, media hysteria was promoted by the government to kill all homeless animals. Romania is drenched in the blood of many animals where wholesale slaughter is taking place across the country at this moment.
Death is all around. It can be seen everywhere. It is palpable. But there is a hidden death. Invisible but deeper. Children born with natural regard and compassion for living creatures are exposed to these horrors. To protect themselves from emotional pain of seeing such abuse, they desensitize to them. They shut off their feelings of empathy and compassion. Once lost... never regained.
A society exists where regard for others is being washed away by the grotesque visions seen on the streets and the inadequacies and irresponsibilities of a government who preside over a new kind of theft, much more obscene. The theft of children's innocence and ability to care! Ability to exercise compassion and empathy. Humanity lies weeping in the corner at such a betrayal of trust!
Can you see what is wrong in this photo?"
It is not a quantum leap of imagination to suggest that constant exposure to abuse must have an impact upon any individual who witnesses it.
A pilot study conducted in Bistrita, Romania, with a control group in Berlin, Germany, in 2012-2013, has shown that animal abuse connects directly with children's psychological health and on societal security in those environments where strategic controls are not applied, and where animal welfare laws exist but are rarely reinforced, and which furnishes licence for animal abuse without repercussions, and thus provides the potential to increase violence and abuse against person and property within these societies.
86,3 % of children in the investigative 14-16 year old age group in Bistrita, Romania, had seen animal abuse in public 'many times'.
It is suggested that exposure to external stimuli causes conceptualisation, or schemata, to be ‘fixed‘ by the time the child is 8 years old. Exposure to abuse and aggression (human and animal) results in all the effects which have been
- aggression against person and property,
- theft,
- arson,
- reduced empathy,
- and they have heightened inclinations towards suicide
Children who, within a few years, develop from innocence and balance to psychological disturbance, displaying internal and external acute disharmony... a journey from peace, harmony and innocence, to anger, hatred and destruction.
By clicking on the link below, you can listen to an interview conducted by Thomas Janak, , with Malcolm Plant, talking about the 'Making The Link' Study - the European study to identify psychological effects of children regularly exposed to community animal abuse and evaluation of efficacy of intervention
Poisoned and bludgeoned dogs
in Bucharest, Baragadiru Ilfov, September 6, 2013
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Bucharest Sector 1, September 6, 2013
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Craiova, September 6, 2013
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Killing is NO solution!
The killings
that have already started and which will continue throughout Romania and
which will end the lives of hundreds of thousands, perhaps even
millions of innocent creatures in the most gruesome ways, WILL NOT solve
the problem for the following reasons:
Mark our words: in a few years from now Romania's streets will be littered again with life and dead dogs. All those who have already died, and those who will die, will have died for nothing!
Catch-Neuter-Return is the only proven humane and effective method to reduce stray animal populations. Statistical studies indicate that in order to fully control a stray population, you need to achieve a 70 percent sterilization rate of the animals within a particular community. Once you reach the 70 percent threshold, the probability that an unsterilized female comes into contact with an unsterilized male is sufficiently small, and the population stops growing.
Killing stray animals, however, does not stop the problem and only offers a temporary “solution”. The World Health Organization’s “Guidelines for Dog Population Management” (Geneva 1990) and various other academic studies show that killing dogs is ineffective. Despite mass extermination campaigns by misguided municipalities the street dog population grows, and the best examples of both good and bad stray animal population control policies come from their own country:
- Technically and logistically speaking, it is simply impossible for the dog catching services to capture all the stray dogs.
- Owned dogs who are not sterilized also contribute to the stray animal population but they won't be killed. Most owned dogs in Romania are not sterilized and allowed to roam freely and to mate as they wish. They will continue to reproduce litter after litter which will then simply be abandoned by their owners and so the sad cycle will continue year in, year out, with new puppies replacing the dying or killed adult population. Just one unaltered female dog and her offspring can produce 67,000 puppies in only six years. In seven years, one female cat and her offspring can produce an incredible 370,000 kittens. Male animals contribute to the companion animal overpopulation crisis even more than females do. Just one un-sterilized male animal can impregnate dozens of females, creating dozens upon dozens of unwanted offspring.
- If the Romanian government was interested in solving the stray animals issue, they would have started mass sterilization campaigns long time ago. But fact is that the stray animals business is a profitable dirty industry in which many people profit from: the collecting of dogs --- the construction of unnecessary shelters (including research and design) --- the housing of animals, including supposedly feeding and caring of the animals --- the incineration of the deceased animals. Solving the stray animals issue would leave all those who make big money from the "stray business" (including mayors and other politicians who receive bribes) without their huge profits!!!
Mark our words: in a few years from now Romania's streets will be littered again with life and dead dogs. All those who have already died, and those who will die, will have died for nothing!
Catch-Neuter-Return is the only proven humane and effective method to reduce stray animal populations. Statistical studies indicate that in order to fully control a stray population, you need to achieve a 70 percent sterilization rate of the animals within a particular community. Once you reach the 70 percent threshold, the probability that an unsterilized female comes into contact with an unsterilized male is sufficiently small, and the population stops growing.
Killing stray animals, however, does not stop the problem and only offers a temporary “solution”. The World Health Organization’s “Guidelines for Dog Population Management” (Geneva 1990) and various other academic studies show that killing dogs is ineffective. Despite mass extermination campaigns by misguided municipalities the street dog population grows, and the best examples of both good and bad stray animal population control policies come from their own country:
- In 2001 the then-mayor of Bucharest launched a campaign that led to the extermination of about 144,000 stray dogs in the capital alone, spending almost 9,000,000 Euros (62 Euros per dog) during the period from 2001-2007. Between 2008-2010, 20,000 dogs have been killed in Constanta spending 1,500,000 Euros (75 Euros per dog). As you know, both the city of Bucharest and Constanta are again littered with live and dead dogs.
- The only town in Romania that used catch/neuter/release programs was Oradea, and the results are showing: in 6 years the population of strays decreased 8 times.
The petition
To:
Traian Basescu, the President of Romania
Different Romanian Government Officials
Copy to:
The European Parliament
The European Commission
The Council of Europe
The European Parliament's Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals
Mr President,
Dear Romanian Government Officials,
we have learned of your intention to kill all homeless dog's following the tragic death of the little boy, Ionut.
We deeply regret the tragedy that happened to the little boy who had, apparently, be killed by dogs and we are sorry that we have to tell you that your action is due since too long! You are the ones to blame in case of incidents with stray dogs in which citizens come to damage, and not the abandoned, homeless dogs who find themselves on your streets with no fault of their own. But if you insist in applying the same methods of dog mass murder that have been conducted in Romania for 20 years and which did not solve the problem, the risk will remain permanent. Countless animals will have died in vain because nothing will have changed.
Your plans are not only contrary to the recommendations of the WHO (World Health Organisation) that states that TNR (trap-neuter-release) is the only proven method to control and reduce stray animal populations, but your intentions are also wrong on a number of levels including those moral and legal. They contradict your own Constitutional Court's Decision 1/2012 (that euthanasia is ILLEGAL as a stray dogs management method until all other solutions have been applied properly, uniformly and with responsibility by local authorities); European Animal Rights Conventions and any adequate humans moral principles!
Please, allow us to remind you that:
Romania being a member state of the European Union since January 1, 2007 and a signatory of the European Council's Convention for the Protection of Pet Animals since 2004, your country MUST respect the signed treaties and conventions, and thus has clear obligations in terms of animal welfare and stray animal population control.
We urge you to immediately stop the killings that are already going on in numerous Romanian villages and cities and to start a massive Catch-Neuter-Vaccinate-Return program in Bucharest and all other Romanian municipalities. The only proven and humane method of stray animals population control is the sterilization and return of the gentle and healthy stray dogs, compulsorily accompanied by the sterilization of dogs with owners that are the main source of street dogs by mass abandoning. Approximately 5 million puppies are born in Romania in rural areas every year, some of them being killed by their owners and the others being abandoned in the streets and the woods, and as long as the dogs with owners will not be sterilized, through coherent programs, Romania's streets will never be free of dogs.
Please, be advised that if the killing of dogs continue we will show to the entire world the reality of the dog camps; we will notify worldwide about the financial interests behind the business of killing dogs; we will withdraw any support that we have given so far to your country; we will boycott Romanian products and tourism, as no one will want to associate with a corrupt, cruel and immoral country.
Yours,
[Signer's name]
Traian Basescu, the President of Romania
Different Romanian Government Officials
Copy to:
The European Parliament
The European Commission
The Council of Europe
The European Parliament's Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals
Mr President,
Dear Romanian Government Officials,
we have learned of your intention to kill all homeless dog's following the tragic death of the little boy, Ionut.
We deeply regret the tragedy that happened to the little boy who had, apparently, be killed by dogs and we are sorry that we have to tell you that your action is due since too long! You are the ones to blame in case of incidents with stray dogs in which citizens come to damage, and not the abandoned, homeless dogs who find themselves on your streets with no fault of their own. But if you insist in applying the same methods of dog mass murder that have been conducted in Romania for 20 years and which did not solve the problem, the risk will remain permanent. Countless animals will have died in vain because nothing will have changed.
Your plans are not only contrary to the recommendations of the WHO (World Health Organisation) that states that TNR (trap-neuter-release) is the only proven method to control and reduce stray animal populations, but your intentions are also wrong on a number of levels including those moral and legal. They contradict your own Constitutional Court's Decision 1/2012 (that euthanasia is ILLEGAL as a stray dogs management method until all other solutions have been applied properly, uniformly and with responsibility by local authorities); European Animal Rights Conventions and any adequate humans moral principles!
Please, allow us to remind you that:
- On 6th of August, 2004, your country has ratified the European Council's Convention for the Protection of Pet Animals which makes it a binding obligation to take (adequate) measures in this field.
- The Treaty of Rome, signed in 1957, established the European Economic Community; the Treaty is the legal base which is periodically revised to take account of institutional and policy changes within the European Union. The Treaty of Rome did not include a reference to animal welfare but in 1992 a declaration on animal welfare was annexed to the revised Treaty of Maastricht. A further revision resulted in the Treaty of Amsterdam which, included a protocol on animal welfare requiring EU policy-makers to pay "full regard" to animal welfare when adopting legislation in a number of policy areas. The Treaty of Amsterdam became effective on 1 May 1999. In 2009 the text of the protocol was incorporated in the text of the Lisbon Treaty, as Article 13, which includes additional policy areas.
- In addition to these, the European Parliament Written Declaration 0026/2011, adopted October 13, 2011, were initiated to further consolidate a concrete and lasting protocol for the humane treatment of animals by Union Member States. Romania being a member state whose MEPs have signed Written Declaration 0026/2011 in promoting humane treatment of animals including their population control is therefore legally bound by its statutes.
- on 4th of July, 2012 the European Parliament Resolution on the establishment of an EU legal framework for the protection of pets and stray animals ( 2012/2670 (RSP) has been adopted by the European Parliament
Romania being a member state of the European Union since January 1, 2007 and a signatory of the European Council's Convention for the Protection of Pet Animals since 2004, your country MUST respect the signed treaties and conventions, and thus has clear obligations in terms of animal welfare and stray animal population control.
We urge you to immediately stop the killings that are already going on in numerous Romanian villages and cities and to start a massive Catch-Neuter-Vaccinate-Return program in Bucharest and all other Romanian municipalities. The only proven and humane method of stray animals population control is the sterilization and return of the gentle and healthy stray dogs, compulsorily accompanied by the sterilization of dogs with owners that are the main source of street dogs by mass abandoning. Approximately 5 million puppies are born in Romania in rural areas every year, some of them being killed by their owners and the others being abandoned in the streets and the woods, and as long as the dogs with owners will not be sterilized, through coherent programs, Romania's streets will never be free of dogs.
Please, be advised that if the killing of dogs continue we will show to the entire world the reality of the dog camps; we will notify worldwide about the financial interests behind the business of killing dogs; we will withdraw any support that we have given so far to your country; we will boycott Romanian products and tourism, as no one will want to associate with a corrupt, cruel and immoral country.
Yours,
[Signer's name]
September 9, 2013 - Romania reintroduced euthanasia!
Today, 9th of
September, 2013, the Committee for Public Administration has
reintroduced the euthanasia. Tomorrow, 10th of September, 2013, from 9
am till 12 am the debates will continue and it will be voted upon.
UPDATE - 10th of September, 2013 (12:30 CET)
The fate of Romania's homeless animals is now decided with:
266 votes in favor of euthanasia,
20 votes against euthanasia,
and 23 abstentions
e following is an excerpt of an email received from Dr Carmen Arsene, president FNPA, received on 10th of September, 2013:"The case of the 4 year old child killed by dogs is becoming more and more blurry and uncertain for many people who are starting to ask questions and wonder. The child was found approximately 1 km away from the park and in order to get there he would have had to walk a highly difficult road even for an adult! Especially for a child!? He should have passed a steep and then pass homeless people. Furthermore, the majority observes the attitude and behaviour of the parents, which are constantly present in the TV studios, especially the mother who is awkwardly relaxed and untroubled. In order to counter-balance this relaxation, some journalists resort to shocking titles, by expressing their own suffering, by photos. There are more and more details which do not make sense and which do not fit the story. And the grandmother who lost sight of the child is not in any way legally accused or pursued, not even interogated! On the contrary, the entire fault is attributed to the NGOs!!!!!!
A continuous and intense campaign, full of lies, calumnies, accuses, unimaginable scenarios regarding the animal lovers, especially the NGOs, is undertaken by the televisions, especially by “Antena 3” (please, send protests to site@antena3.ro ). The animal welfare NGOs are merely „bastards who steal the state's money”, which have „turned rich by exploiting the strays problem”, which have „done businesses with the mayors for huge amounts of money”, „impostors, fake animal lovers, only ruled by their own interests”. The loss of credibility towards the NGOs has occurred and thus the people are starting to talk about the NGOs like entities for which the „truth” is only now surfacing. Fake statistics, images with „fearsome” strays, interviwes with „terrorized” citizens, have fully occupied the TV broadcasts these days! Fake histories, forged documents are presented to the population!
For 10 days the televisions are debating and are histerically yelling and screaming on the same subject!
A campaign without precedent in Romania, led mainly by Antena 3, hides INCREDIBLE POLITICAL STAKES AND INTERESTS! An unimaginable vizual and psichological pressure! A mediatic destruction which was never met before!
We have managed to defeat a political force by stopping mass euthanasia in 2011! Now their strategy has changed by creating such a public pressure, which, supposedly, will put pressure on the political bodies! The loss of credibility of the NGOs, of the animal lovers, currently represent the priority of the country! Once these occurred, they lead to the meeting of various objectives having collosal financial implications!
They have manipulated the collective mentality in such a way that the people themselves have massacred strays in the streets, people are abusing and hitting them, the public dog pounds are emptied over night, a national dog cathing procedure has begun, the dog catchers even enter the properties of the people. They have entered so deeply in the psyche of the people that the people have started to denigrate each other, to mutilate one another!
The protests against the gold extraction by cyanides in Rosia Montana has brought 10.000 people in the streets, for 9 days. This is a protest without precedent in Romania but still the televisions only rarely present this subject. Nonetheless they are constantly debating the subject of the child killed by the strays!
Only the joint and distructive forces they resorted to in a premeditated manner show us just how high the stake really is!"
Please consider the following statements, ask yourself the following questions, and build up your own opinion:
A journalist and his team took the same "possible path" that little Ionut is supposed to have taken when he left the park. Already the first part of the "possible path" was very difficult for an adult and it took them more than one hour until they landed in front of a very high fence which separated them from the place where the little boy had been found. According to the journalist, a child would have had no chance to walk this path till the end and to even reach the fence. And: why would a child do it?
If it took an adult more than 1 hour walking, a child would need even more time, but let's just assume that the two children really managed to reach the place where Ionut was later found in one hour time.... Ionut gets attacked by strays, his brothers runs back to his grand mother. He would have needed at least 2 hours only to make the 2 ways. But it is said that the grand mother left them unsupervised for about 45 minutes...
If the boy had been mauled to death by dogs, he would have screamed. How comes that no-one has heard the boys cries for help although there are a couple of residential buildings and many many houses in close proximity to the place where the boy is supposed to having been killed?
According to the journalist, the coroner had found little Ionut in the yard with his pants down... and, according to the journalist, the only explanation seems to be that the little boy had been caught, perhaps even raped and then thrown over the fence into the yard where his lifeless body had later been found after hungry dogs had started feeding upon him...
According to this report and different other statements, it seems as if the deputies, the ASPA, the police, and forensics are protecting a dangerous pedophile and killer...
In the very first statement of Bucharest ISU spokesman Daniel Vasile, said that "It is a difficult to access area, there are few explanations about this story."
There was also a police officer who said that it would have been impossible for a child to get over such a high fence unless the child had been lifted or thrown over...
Could a four year old boy climb over this fence?
the first part of the path that leads to the place where little Ionut was found dead
the second part of the path that Ionut would have taken...
MEP Corneliu Vadim Tudor takes a firm stand and says:
"little Ionut was NOT torn by dogs. The little boy was murdered!"
In an article published in the Romanian news on 6th of September, 2013, Corneliu Vadim Tudor, Member of the European Parliament, said: "The forensic report was concealed - Ionut was raped and killed by one or more persons!"
Vadim Tudor:
În raportul medico-legal s-a ascuns faptul că Ionuț a fost violat.
Vezi cum a fost posibil
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