A generous donor chose to offer a unique opportunity for Save the Dogs: until the 31st of May, every donation we will receive for the purchase of medicines and medical protection for our dogs will be doubled!
This means that until the 31 st of May, your donation is worth the double!
In this period we must defend the 500 dogs in our shelters from heartworm disease and the prevention costs a very large expense for Save the Dogs. Beside from this year we must deal with leishmaniosis too, an incurable disease which until now wasn’t a problem in Romania. Leishmania, just like heartworm disease, prevents these dogs from be adopted abroad.
This is why right now your help is fundamental!
| Thanks to the doubling mechanism, with a donation of 25 euros you can protect a dog from hearthworm disease and leishmania, whilst with a donation of 50 euros two dogs can have their lives saved because of you.
Help us protect our dogs! |
Thanks to the doubling mechanism, with a donation of 25 euros you can protect a dog from hearthworm disease and leishmania, whilst with a donation of 50 euros two dogs can have their lives saved because of you.
Help us protect our dogs!
I don’t have a credit card. Can I donate?
How will you use the money you will receive?
Every donation until the 31st of May will be doubled from our generous donor and they will be used for the prevention of our 500 dogs hosted in our shelters; and also for the prevention of all the new ones that will be hosted.
What is heartworm disease?
Heartworm disease is a parasitic disease which is transmitted from a sick dog to a healthy one through the sting of a mosquito. The most severe form is the heart-lung heartworm disease, caused by the parasite Dirofilaria immitis. This form, if not detected and cured, is lethal for the dog. The disease usually emerges when the mosquito are numerous, from April to October. The dog may not present any symptom when finally the hearth start to present problems.
This disease is present in Romania only recently.
What is leishmania?
Leishmaniosis is an infectious, contagious disease, transmitted by the sting of the sandflies, usually most active between May and October. It is a chronic, severe disease, which causes progressive damages, even death, to the dog. In Italy it is quite present, mostly in the south and the areas near the sea; but only starting this year it appeared in the region of the Romania in which we operate.