After visiting Romania and witnessing the condition of the street dogs, Nancy Janes founded Romania Animal Rescue, Inc. (RAR). Nancy learned that the street dogs are called Ceaucescu's dogs, because they belong to farmers who moved from rural farmhouses to the cities to work in factories. These farmers brought their dogs with them, but could not keep them in their apartments (block housing), so they were left on the streets. As time went by, a crisis developed with hundreds of thousands of unwanted stray street dogs.

Nancy met Dana Costin from ROLDA, a group already working for animal welfare in Galati, Romania, in 2002. "She is a dynamic and strong individual who sees the future humane treatment of the animals of Romania," says Janes. Galati has one of the worst stray dog problems, with 10,000 stray dogs on record. Galati is a factory town, along the Danube, with a population of about 325,000 people.

The goal of Romania Animal Rescue, Inc. is to help ROLDA fulfill their goal of a "Neuter/Spay. No More Strays" campaign. Together the two groups offer spay/neuter free of charge to anyone, and all the stray dogs they take in are neutered or spayed before being released. To get the word out, bumper stickers made in the Romanian language stating the "Neuter/Spay. No More Strays" message are being passed out in Galati. This has provided an opportunity to talk to the public about animal control. Most people are not familiar with neuter/spay, and others think it is cruel to not allow a dog to reproduce.

One of the main focuses of the Romania Animal Rescue, Inc. is to teach Romanian veterinarians new techniques in spay/neuter. Currently, most Romanian vets think that a dog should be mature before being sterilized, and a female should go through at least one heat before sterilization. RAR is sending a group of vets from RAWS in the United States to Galati in September. There the U.S. vets will teach the Romanian vets and animal shelter managers from Bucharest new spay/neuter procedures. ROLDA has also taken on the responsibility of seeing that the dogs in the city facility receive adequate food and medical attention. Their goal is to re-home these dogs.