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Cernavoda – Matteo and Melissa are safe
When the dog-catchers took to the streets in Cernavoda, we decided it was time to take Matteo and Melissa to the safety of our shelter. We started up the van and drove at full speed to the town centre, but when we first arrived we couldn't find them anywhere. We...
Helping the animals of poor families living in romanian villages
Signora Aurelia Sirbu lives with her cats in Dunarea, a village not far from Cernavoda in Romania. Her home is devoid of all the essentials: electricity, heating, food, medicine. But Aurelia would do anything in the world for her cats. One day we bumped into her while...
The war in Ukraine – A winter without food and shelter for animals
The most difficult season of them all lies right ahead of us: the advent of winter hails a long cold period with the prospect of no food or shelter for thousands of abandoned animals, stranded and left alone to wander the streets in a desperate attempt to avoid the...
TOO MANY PUPPIES – Brand new equipment for the Castelvolturno outpatient clinic
Since the beginning of 2022, we have been collaborating with a new partner at our “Too Many Puppies – Campania” program: the San Francesco Dog Shelter Association, which operates in Castel Volturno. The facility was founded in 1965 by a group of volunteers who were...
Friends on the street: the complicity between Stefano and Briciola
Stefano and Briciola approached us in complete silence on the evening we met. Stefano looked to be in his mid-30s and was visibly weighed down by his heavy backpack as he walked towards us. In one hand he held tightly onto Briciola’s leash, every bit as carefully as a...
The crisis in Ukraine has been steadily intensifying.
Over the past few weeks, the crisis in Ukraine has been steadily intensifying. Drones and missiles have mainly targeted civilian infrastructures, and given the hazardous state of affairs, many animals are being abandoned by their fleeing owners. Faced with the...
Boica, rescued, is now safely with his family
Boica is a male dog who was adopted by a lovely family from Seimenii Mici, one of the villages nearby. He enjoys the love and affection of the members of the family he lives with and has grown into a big, beautiful and healthy specimen. He is also a good-natured and...
Round up at Cernavoda – The first 20 dogs rescued
After four years of a slackening off of the number of stray dogs being rounded up, the dog catchers were back in town on Friday, October 14. In Cernavoda, Romania, a campaign initiated by the city council administration to capture and eliminate stray dogs, is once...
The nightmare of the dog-catchers in Cernavoda has come back to haunt us
Friday morning, the town of Cernavoda woke up to the living nightmare of seeing dog catchers out and about in the streets again Giurgiu’s ASPA IVET Animal Resort – a so-called "association" that is notorious in Romania for having killed thousands of strays over recent...
International adoptions, an absolute necessity for our work in eastern countries
In an ideal world, all animals should be guaranteed shelter and protection in the places where they are born. But we all know that such a world does not exist, and in some countries abandoned cats and dogs can only look forward to a life of hardship or even premature...
Cernavoda – Matteo and Melissa are safe
When the dog-catchers took to the streets in Cernavoda, we decided it was time to take Matteo and Melissa to the safety of our shelter. We started up the van and drove at full speed to the town centre, but when we first arrived we couldn't find them anywhere. We...
Helping the animals of poor families living in romanian villages
Signora Aurelia Sirbu lives with her cats in Dunarea, a village not far from Cernavoda in Romania. Her home is devoid of all the essentials: electricity, heating, food, medicine. But Aurelia would do anything in the world for her cats. One day we bumped into her while...
The war in Ukraine – A winter without food and shelter for animals
The most difficult season of them all lies right ahead of us: the advent of winter hails a long cold period with the prospect of no food or shelter for thousands of abandoned animals, stranded and left alone to wander the streets in a desperate attempt to avoid the...
TOO MANY PUPPIES – Brand new equipment for the Castelvolturno outpatient clinic
Since the beginning of 2022, we have been collaborating with a new partner at our “Too Many Puppies – Campania” program: the San Francesco Dog Shelter Association, which operates in Castel Volturno. The facility was founded in 1965 by a group of volunteers who were...
Friends on the street: the complicity between Stefano and Briciola
Stefano and Briciola approached us in complete silence on the evening we met. Stefano looked to be in his mid-30s and was visibly weighed down by his heavy backpack as he walked towards us. In one hand he held tightly onto Briciola’s leash, every bit as carefully as a...
The crisis in Ukraine has been steadily intensifying.
Over the past few weeks, the crisis in Ukraine has been steadily intensifying. Drones and missiles have mainly targeted civilian infrastructures, and given the hazardous state of affairs, many animals are being abandoned by their fleeing owners. Faced with the...
Boica, rescued, is now safely with his family
Boica is a male dog who was adopted by a lovely family from Seimenii Mici, one of the villages nearby. He enjoys the love and affection of the members of the family he lives with and has grown into a big, beautiful and healthy specimen. He is also a good-natured and...
Round up at Cernavoda – The first 20 dogs rescued
After four years of a slackening off of the number of stray dogs being rounded up, the dog catchers were back in town on Friday, October 14. In Cernavoda, Romania, a campaign initiated by the city council administration to capture and eliminate stray dogs, is once...
The nightmare of the dog-catchers in Cernavoda has come back to haunt us
Friday morning, the town of Cernavoda woke up to the living nightmare of seeing dog catchers out and about in the streets again Giurgiu’s ASPA IVET Animal Resort – a so-called "association" that is notorious in Romania for having killed thousands of strays over recent...
International adoptions, an absolute necessity for our work in eastern countries
In an ideal world, all animals should be guaranteed shelter and protection in the places where they are born. But we all know that such a world does not exist, and in some countries abandoned cats and dogs can only look forward to a life of hardship or even premature...