Cernavoda

In 2001 Sara Turetta received the desperate appeal of an Italian family living in Cernavoda. The streets of the city were full of corpses of strays poisoned by the operators of the Municipality, a thing that was taking place in a similar way across the entire country.
Realizing that the Municipality was open to a constructive dialogue, Sara Turetta became the promoter of an agreement (May 2002): an intense sterilization initiative sponsored through foreign funds in exchange for the life of the approximately 2,000 strays living on the streets, who would not have been killed.

The facility included a small veterinary clinic of 160 square meters with an adjoining transit shelter (max. 130 animals) where dogs transited while waiting to be moved to the shelter Footprints of Joy.

The center – totally undersized if compared to the needs of the project and placed in an area subject to Danube’s flooding – was closed down after the opening of our new veterinary clinic at Footprints of Joy in 2017.

The International organization World Animal Protection published in September 2015 a case study on Save the Dogs’ project in Cernavoda as a good practice for a humane management of the stray dogs. Read the study here under.