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Newsletter March 2008
Romania Animal Rescue, Inc.
8000 Morgan Territory Rd.
Livermore, CA 94550

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Tax ID: 72-1546354

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Cybella

"CYBELLA"

This month's newsletter is dedicated to the memory, and life, of CYBELLA, an FeLV-positive little lady who passed over the Rainbow Bridge at age 22. Read more about Cybella in the Dedication section below.

We love you!

 

Dear RAR Supporters and friends,

It's almost Spring in Romania, and you know what that means.......PUPPIES AND KITTENS! This means your support and generous donations to fund Dr. Bachman's trip to Romania in May is even more important! Let's get a jump on this now and spay/neuter as many animals as we can!

"Neuter or Spay! No More Strays"!

As always, thank you everyone -- we simply could not have done all this work without your financial and mental support. Bless you all.

Love,
Nancy

 

RAR'S INTERNATIONAL VETERINARIAN PROGRAM

This month we are highlighting our INTERNATIONAL VETERINARIAN PROGRAM, a program unique to Romania Animal Rescue.

In 2004 RAR began the International Veterinary Program, whereby we find and fund highly skilled volunteer veterinarians from the USA to go to Romania to train Romanian vets on modern surgical procedures, using anesthesia and analgesia. Since that time we have sent 5 vets to Romania, with substantial success. Volunteer vets from the USA have been able to train vets and students in Romania in the cities of Arad, Oradea, Cluj-Napoca, Galati, and Buzau, and will be training this year in May, with the help of Dr. Richard Bachman, in the cities of Bucharest, Buzau, and Sibiu. In October, we will send Dr. Olson to Romania for her 3rd training trip, allowing her to go back to Cluj-Napoca, Buzau, and then onto Braila and Iasi.

Plans for 2008

In May 2008 Dr. Richard Bachman, a highly skilled veterinarian who has worked in India and Mexico, and long-time friend of RAR's, will travel to Romania for his second trip to train vets and perform spay/neuter surgeries. Our plan is for Dr. Bachman to go to Bucharest, Buzau, and Sibiu, from May 11-23.

Dr. Olson will be returning to Romania in October 2008, and we plan for her to go to Cluj-Napoca (to work with NUCA again) and to Buzau; and, if funding permits, hopefully to Constanta and Iasi.

EACH OF THESE PROGRAMS COST RAR $6000 FOR SUPPLIES ($20/SPAY/NEUTER SURGERY X 300 SURGERIES). THE VETERINARIANS' TRAVEL AND LODGING COSTS HAVE BEEN DONATED BY NANCY EISMAN, AJ SOLOMON, AND OUR FRIENDS IN ROMANIA WHO HAVE OPENED THEIR HOMES TO OUR VETS.

PLEASE, HELP US RAISE THE FUNDS FOR DR. BACHMAN'S TRIP!!

Dr. Bachman's trip will require funding for surgical equipment. We are so fortunate to have these wonderful vets donate their time and service to RAR - now we have to provide them with the supplies they need to be successful!

 

PHOTO JOURNAL - DR. OLSON'S OCTOBER 2007 TRIP

In October 2007, Dr. Jeanne Olson from Alaska traveled to Romania under RAR's International Veterinarian Program, where she trained vets in modern surgical procedures and introduced them to many new surgical methods/extras such as the "Miller's Knot". Below, we are "pleased to present" photographs just received from Dr. Olson along with her comments on each.

The following is a series of photos from Dr. Olson's trip to Romania in October 2007. We know you will enjoy them and find them educational as well. THEY ILLUSTRATE WHAT YOUR INCREDIBLE SUPPORT ENABLES US TO DO FOR THE ANIMALS OF ROMANIA!

We know you will enjoy, and be educated by, this "photo journal", WHICH ENABLES you to see your "dollars at work" on the ground in Romania. We hope they not only illustrate what your generous support enables us to do, but that they MOTIVATE YOU TO HELP US FUND DR. BACHMAN'S MAY TRIP!

WITH YOUR HELP, WE WILL BE ABLE TO FUND DR. BACHMAN'S TRIP SO THAT SUCCESS STORIES SUCH AS THOSE ILLUSTRATED BELOW WILL AGAIN HAPPEN FOR THE ROMANIAN ANIMALS AND THE CITIZENS WHO LOVE THEM.


After a couple of days, we had two surgery tables going. This is a pretty tiny room, but we managed. There were many pregnant dogs that were spayed during this time.

A new mom had her puppies in the dirt outside an apartment building in Cluj. This local veterinarian was contacted by one of the people who feed her daily.

 


Three Romanian vets in Cluj perform a dog spay, American style.

 


Note that this veterinarian in Cluj puts padding below the animals to keep them warmer during surgery. The veterinarians are able to perform the surgeries much faster by using different knot techniques and suture methods.

 


Three pure bred Romanian street dogs who were found in the rain, soaking wet and starving when they were about a week old. A very kind lady took them in and cared for them. The middle one now lives in Alaska. His name is Danny and he is quite the Romanian ambassador.

 


This young boy loved his poodle very much. The dog gets thorns in his feet all the time so the boy brought the dog to Dr. Olson. She didn't have any booties for him, although that is what he really needed. This horse also had some chronic wounds on his legs and all Dr. Olson could do was provide some topical salve and do some acupuncture. There is virtually no banamine, phenylbutazone or other pain medicine for horses in Romania. All horses that she met during her visit to Romania were very gentle and mild-mannered. Dr. Olson suspects that could just be weary from working so hard.

 

 


We placed a couple of plaques by the surgical supplies for a photo op. Surgical supplies are not ideal in Romania. Very few needles, suture types and anesthetics are available. Dr. Olson brought many of these supplies with her to Romania.

 


Dr. Ileana successfully ties a Miller's Knot on the ovarian stump of a very pregnant dog.

 


This older dog (about 12) had a large mass on his back leg. The local veterinarian in Buzau was concerned that he would not survive the anesthesia. Dr. Olson offered to show him how to perform the surgery with just dormitor and local anesthetic. The dog did very well, and here, he is getting some ice on the surgical site while his humans (older lady and younger child) are full of gratitude that they will be able to take him home and no longer have that large mass on his leg.

 

 


Dr. Ileana and Dr. Olson were in a small village outside of Buzau and heard some rustling and whimpering. This young dog had a chain wrapped tightly around her leg and the leg was badly swollen from the restricted circulation. She was also in heat. The doctors got permission to take her for medical care and find her a better living situation.

 


These two Romanian veterinarians in Galati were observing surgery techniques. Soon, they were performing surgeries themselves at Dr. Ileana's clinic that day. She had invited them to her clinic to learn over the weekend.

 

 


This was one of the very pregnant dogs that we spayed one day. It is always a good idea to give them some extra fluids since they lose quite a bit of fluid when their uterus is removed. Once again, it was important to remind the staff and volunteers that the dogs must be kept warm.

 

 


Viorel sprays an antiseptic on the surgery site. Most of the dogs will be released to the streets, so it is important to provide a temporary barrier on the skin to ensure there will be no infection.

 

 


A very old dog who lives with Mr. Cenac had one very large (grapefruit sized) testicle that was basically one large hard tumor. He survived the surgery just fine. Here he is receiving the best postop care: Warm padding below and warm water bottles under his blanket.

 


Geo holds one of our favorite patients of the day at Dr. Ileana's in Galati.

 

 

SUCCESS! SUPPLIES SHIPPED TO ROMANIA

Thanks to your wonderful response, Nancy and Cristina were able to ship 600 pounds of supplies to Romania at a fraction of normal shipping cost! THANK YOU FROM THE ANIMALS FOR HELPING THEM STAY WARM AFTER SURGERY…THANK YOU ALL SO VERY MUCH!!

 

NEWS FROM DR. ILEANA

Dr. Ileana reports that our free spay/neuter program has become very popular. With the continued support of our Donors, we hope not to have to turn any animals away!

RAR'S TRAP NEUTER RELEASE (TNR) program is conducted in this way: RAR offers free spay/neuter and treatments for the street animals in Galati (population 380,000 people - approximately 14,000 dogs, number of cats unknown) for the impoverished people of Galati and surrounding areas. Animal caregivers can bring in their beloved street dogs and cats for sterilization, vaccination, and de-parasite treatment, at no cost to them. These animals then return to the caregiver and to their previous location - but now they are sterile, so that they cannot reproduce. Dr. Ileana also offers low-cost spay/neuter for those citizens who can afford it.

WHEN 80% OF THE STREET ANIMALS ARE STERILIZED,
WE WILL HAVE ACHIEVED ZERO POPULATION GROWTH!

Here are two letters from Dr. Ileana. You will note that she has received the new autoclave! Two of our wonderful donors, Lilith and AnnaBell, helped to make this purchase possible.

Dear Nancy

I would like to get involved in a local adoption program. TV Express wants [us] to do it together. "They invited me to do a program through which to sensitize as many people as possible to adopt dogs. I also want to start the Galati Animal Control after the models abroad. …I appreciate what you have done for this city and for your fight. We can only be on the same barricade.

With respect,
Dr. I.

 

February 29, 2008

Dear Nancy

The animal protection law will obligate the owners to assure adequate living conditions, starting from birth until death. Based on this law they will also be forced to spay/neuter so the animals don't multiply and end up in such great numbers on the streets. Also there won't be as many abandoned animals. For this the ANIMAL POLICE has to be instated. I would like to offer this service and hope to succeed.

You asked me for a statistic from 2003 until now. This is very hard to do because the street animals have never been counted. I can make the following calculation. From 2003 until now I spayed/neutered approx 3000 dogs & cats. Considering that a street dog has 8-10 pups, we were able to avoid at least 12000-15000 pups at one single birth. But if we consider that a dog gives birth twice/year, look how many pups we were able to avoid through our work by not allowing them to come into a world where they are not wanted. As for cats, we sterilized approx 15000 x 4-6 kitties the same math shows how much good our program has done. If necessary I will get the spay/neuter numbers from the beginning of the program. I need approx 2 days for that. We are very busy at the end of the month.

I agree with your view on shelters but in conditions in which the law requires that a street dog will be euthanized 7 days after the animal arrives at the shelter and is either not claimed or adopted, I consider private shelters, where they can be kept until they will be adopted, to be the better solution. That way as many as possible escape euthanasia. A private shelter where you keep, treat and work with them so that they can find an owner ASAP is the best solution. I would like RAR GAL to have such a shelter combined with the office of the Animal Police.

Got the autoclave today. I am very happy. I have to pay 87000 lei= USD 3700 within 2 days. Could I use the CC which you sent me? If so, how do I proceed?

I have another request: would it be possible for you to purchase a vial of vitamin B12 as concentrated as possible? I would also need an ultraviolet lamp to diagnose mycoses. It would help me lot in my work. Unfortunately mycosis can be transmitted from animals to humans. If possible than I would like to deduct their value from the debt. It shouldn't be very expensive. Cannot get it here. I would also need a scale to weigh the dogs. I would pay for that as well. Can you help me?

With respect,
Dr. Ileana

Here is Dr. Ileana's Spay/Neuter report for January 2008. Remember, every $25-$40 donated covers the cost of one spay/neuter (depending on the complexity of the surgery.)


JANSpay/Neuter/Description Number

Cost per

Cost (in Lei)

 Female dogs47100.414,719,27
 Female cats6389.905,663,70
 Male dogs1171.40785,40
 Male cats1359.50773,50
 Other Treatments (see note)
 
TOTAL S/N PROCEDURES IN JANUARY 2008 134
   JAN Total LEI 11941,87
   Total USD $ 5,191.00

 

Note: [In January] we also had 16 dogs, 17 cats, vaccinations and other treatments that my office did. There are still a lot of dogs to be spayed/neutered and a lot of requests. --Dr. Ileana.

 

NICK AND ASHLEY – Nick being fostered by Nancy and Rory

Remember "Nick and Ashley" from our past newsletters? The brother and sister pups, rehomed to a wonderful home in California. Due to a serious illness in their humans' family, and as hard as it is for their "mom", Melissa, she must give up Nick, at least for now. Nancy and Rory Janes have taken Nick in, and will foster him until, it is hoped, Melissa's mother gets better and Nick can be reunited with Ashley and her human family, for Nick loves Ash and she loves him.

Photo of Nick at Melissa's home

Here is a poem that Melissa wrote for Nick:

Nick and AshNickster
by Melissa Jones

Your eyes are dark caramel, soft and warm.
It is the first thing about you.
You are knowing. it is clear in your
steady glance, which holds a
soft smile and shy tilt of your head.

You have a happy tail. It seems to
always be moving, beating a steady tempo of
satisfaction with life, working into the smile on your face.
When it knocks my leg I feel
the joy and intensity of you.

I sit with you and feel your energy, your
eagerness to run, to jump and play and bark.

That bark. You speak often, and enjoy
letting everyone know about the squirrels in the trees,
the falling leaves, and the flying birds.

When you take a moment to rest, you stretch out to the
floor with a soft groan and promptly close your eyes.
You sleep as intently as you do everything else, and your
dreams must take you to wonderful places.

I love your Yoda ears. When you do that thing where
they stick out sideways it makes me laugh. Other times
you sit with one ear up and one ear down,
and it makes me laugh.

You are sweetly funny, sweet taffy on a sunny day.

 

SPONSOR NEEDED TO FUND VETERINARY SCHOOL CANDIDATE
WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE A YOUNG ROMANIAN BOY'S DREAM COME TRUE BY SENDING HIM TO VETERINARY SCHOOL?

As a supporter of RAR, you know we often mention Viorel, a friend of the animals in Galati, Romania, and an on-the-ground supporter of RAR. Viorel would like to go to Veterinary Technical School in Romania, and we applaud his goal. Viorel would also be trained by our international vets in modern methods of spay/neuter and other critical medical procedures to help the animals of her country.

Viorel sprays an antiseptic on the surgery site.This would be such a gift for someone who, without help from you, would not be able to attend the Veterinary University, so that he can help the animals in Romania. RAR is asking our wonderful donors if they have any connections to corporate sponsors for scholarships for education for our friend and devoted animal activist. Individual sponsorships are also welcome.

Would you like to sponsor Viorel for a year? He will be an outstanding veterinarian, as he loves the animals dearly.

IT WOULD BE A WONDERFUL THING TO BE VIOREL'S GUARDIAN ANGEL BY SUBSIDIZING HIS SCHOOLING, SO WHEN HE GRADUATES, HE CAN BE AN EVEN MORE IMPORTANT AND VALUABLE GUARDIAN ANGEL TO THE ANIMALS.

 

DEDICATION – "CYBELLA"

CybellaCybella was a beautiful, loving, 22-year old Siamese cat, who lived at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Utah. She passed over the Rainbow Bridge last month at an astounding 22 years of age—made more incredible by the fact that she had FeLV.

Known as the "Queen" of Kitty Motel FeLV Room#3, one of her friends, Ray, said he would love to lie down and let the kitties swarm all over him, but when Cybella would climb on his chest, she would keep all the other cats from coming up! Queen indeed!

Cristina & Cybella

During Nancy and Cristina's visit to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in January, Cristina met Cybella, and it was love at first sight…for both of them. That truly magic connection that happens between humans and animals happened for them. A few weeks after Cristina's visit, she received the sad news that Cybella had passed. All she could do to express her sorrow was send a beautiful spray of flowers for Cybella's resting place, where she was tenderly put to rest by the people at Best Friends, who loved her too.

Cristina and Cybella - January 2008

The wonderful, caring people at Best Friends lovingly lay Cybella to rest in a grove of trees.


Jennifer carrying Cybella

Sharing memories of Cybella

Jon placing a scoop of earth

Jennifer placing a scoop of earth

Cybella's resting place

Beautiful flowers for a beautiful kitty--
With love, Cristina.

 

LETTERS FROM ROMANIA

As you know, Romania Animal Rescue regularly gets feedback (and pleas for assistance) from groups in Romania. We share these letters with you so that you can have a feel for what life is like for the animals and their caretakers in Romania. Here is a letter from Teodora Ristea (www.prieteniinostri.lx.ro), about the conditions in Slatina, Romania.

Dear Romania Animal Rescue,

We are writing to you with so much hope because we think that our same love for the four paws link us in the endless fight for the lives of these poor animals.

We represent the ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE ANIMALS "OUR FRIENDS''(Prietenii nostri, in Romanian language), an organisation non-profit from Romania. We take care of the stray dogs in the city of Slatina, situated in the south of Romania, about 200 km from Bucharest( the capital of Romania). You know about the Romanian massacre. The stray dogs are killed with suspicious methods, even, officially, the administrations sustain that they practice euthanasia. The dogs from Romania are the most unhappy of the world. I know they are not the unique in this situation, but, certainly you won't see in their eyes the joy of being alive. The glance of these dogs is that of a hunted animal, is the glance of a victim full of fear: the odious fear of us, the human beings. Human is too much said to represent us, the cruel hunters of the dogs! This look which begs you, "let me live", you can find everywhere in Romania. Is this the unfortunate destiny of dozen and dozen puppies and adult dogs in our country. Only in our city, Slatina with about 80,000 habitants had been killed, in accordance with the law, about 10.000 dogs, one for each eight habitant! It's also uncontrollable the way that these killings had been done. There are voices that sustains, many times with films and video proves, that thousand and thousand of dogs in Romania had been killed by being live skinned, hit till death, poisoning, drowning or other barbaric methods. Maybe also in our city they had been used these horrible methods. We won't find ever the truth. We prove now to let the past behind our shoulders (even we won't forget it) and prove to help them concretely.

Our shelter has been given us like concession from the administration of the city in 2005. At the beginning we had only 12 dogs (the others were already killed), and a year later there were 300 and at the end of 2007 their number increased to 600. Is very difficult for us to [provide] care [for] them, to vaccinate and offer the veterinary cures. We are about 40 members and we support our shelter only with the little money from our few sponsors.

We have obtained the food from a big factory of aluminum and a slaughter-one, which gives us the rest of their food (never enough for 600 dogs) and sometimes we buy them special dog foods.

At the end of last year we had been lucky to be helped by the German association Vier Pfoten, who had neutered 350 dogs ( the other 250 we had neutered by ourselves, with our money), and now, thanks to Sara Turetta, the Italian woman who helps so much the Romanian dogs. We have made also some adoption in Italy (5 dogs from our shelter had been adopted in Italy).

But we have, like you imagine, so much problems, more problems than satisfactions. We need building equipment, in order to make a shelter like it should be, we need kennels (we have only for 250 of them), we need medicines to cure them, we need food for dogs and we need also help to adopt them, to find a loving family to care about them, to make them forget their terrible past. We need all of these, because we have much love to give them, but a few things to offer them and our hearts are full of tears.

If you have a minute, watch please their eyes on our website.

Thank you so much,
Teodora Ristea

 

ROMANIAN HORSES IN NEED OF HELP!

One of our friend organizations in Galti, HELP LABUS, has contacted us to tell of a terrible situation in Romania and ask for help.

A new law has banned horse-drawn carts from major roadways, and many horses have been abandoned. This situation is made more severe because the farmers cannot make money to buy feed for their horses. These horses pulled carts along streets and worked in the fields, as has been done for centuries. Now, they have had to be abandoned by their owners—victims of an attempt to bring the country into line with EU law by BANNING HORSE-DRAWN CARTS from main roads.

Here is the link to Help Labus' article in The Telegraph.

Many horses died around Christmas because no one offered them help. It is a huge cruelty; the fact that these animals served man for so many years and now they get abandoned and then die. --Help Labus.

We are also told that the disadvantaged Roma [horses] are being persecuted by the police. "The problem is the new law, coupled with the present Romanian government's disdain for peasant farmers. The ramifications of the new law are extremely serious for horses and horse owners." --Julian Ross

HELP LABUS is asking for our help. They have the land, but need funds for food and a shelter for the horses. They have a professional in horse treatment who supports them whenever needed.

I hope that we can get some immediate help for these animals to be cared for. They have given their whole life to work in Romania for humans. I have met many of the horses in Romania - they deserve a good life just like our horses do. PLEASE LET'S HELP!

If you wish to help by contributing to Help Labus for the cost of protecting, feeding and caring for these beautiful horses, click: .

We will provide you with a tax-deductible receipt. You may also go directly to the Help Labus' website.

 

WHAT WE NEED NOW

IN ADDITION TO OUR IMPORTANT PLEA ABOVE, FOR FUNDS FOR DR. BACHMAN'S TRIP IN MAY, Here is a list of things that are needed:

(Soluble sutures and Dormitol are especially needed for Dr. Bachman's May trip to Romania.)

  • SOLUBLE SUTURES; catgut chromic sizes 0, 1, 2, 3 and 2.0
  • DORMITOL
  • SYRINGES- 2 ml and 5 ml syringes,
  • SURGICAL GLOVES, numbers 6.5 and 7
  • ANTIBIOTICS – Long Action (L.A.) antibiotics, which protect the animal for 72 hours.
  • We ALWAYS need FRONTLINE, REVOLUTION, ADVANTIX… anything and everything that eliminates parasites and protects the animals!
  • NEW -- An ultraviolet light to identify skin diseases and eye damage (hand - held, cost is approximately $60)
  • NEW -- Nice cages for Dr. Ileana to use when she starts putting animals up for adoption in her office (cost for wire cages is $700 - for stainless steal cages the cost is $2000).
  • NEW -- Vials of vitamin B12 (as concentrated as possible) to be used with acupuncture.
  • NEW –- Dr. Ileana needs a scale to weigh dogs.
  • VAN FOR RAR - $5000 still needed to purchase the van! We are still desperately looking for the rest of the funds to purchase a van for RAR. It will be used to take medical care TO THE ANIMALS for spay/neuter and urgent medical treatment! It will be a wonderful good-will "vehicle" for RAR and the animals in Romania!

 

IN APPRECIATION

Heartfelt thanks from RAR on behalf of the animals to Stichting Wereld Asielen for once again making a generous donation for our spay/neuter program in Romania! We value your support so much!

Big puppy breath kisses to Keith Tyler of Merial® for once again donating numerous boxes of Previcox®, for pain, and HeartGard® worm prevention for the animals in Romania!!

An extremely large THANK YOU to EVERYONE who responded to our request and sent supplies to Cristina in Washington! Nancy and Rory also drove a trailer of supplies to Washington, where Nancy and Cristina were able to ship 600 pounds of supplies to Romania!

Special thank yous to Amy, Ana, AnnaBell, Barbara, Bonnie, Cristina, Dale, Denise, Dionisia, Julie, Julie A, Julie K., Kim, Lilith, Lisbeth, Lynnie, Melanie, Nikki, Rob, Susan, Varela, and Vera, who helped the animals by their generous donations.

Heartfelt thanks to Cristina, for all of her wonderful support, physical, financial and spiritual, on behalf of the animals!

Deepest gratitude to AnnaBell for once again helping the animals, and her continuing, highly valued support of RAR!

Big puppy kisses to Margaret for her ongoing, unfailing support of RAR!

Great thanks to Leigh-Ann and everyone at the Wildlife Center of Virginia for once again sending us medical supplies, which we were able to ship to Romania via the inexpensive method/program that Cristina arranged for RAR!!

Very special thanks and gratitude go out to AJ, for her unending, very gratifying support of RAR. You have helped the animals so much!

Heartfelt thanks to Mo, for her ongoing support and work on behalf of the animals. Your respect and love for the animals is wonderful!

Great big thank you to Charlotte and Dale Kooistra for their donation of numerous supplies to RAR's shipment to Romania!

A huge thank you to Lilly Pierce, who has been acting as a translator for Nancy and Dr. Ileana, as well as working very hard to get the information about the plight of the Romanian animals addressed in the EU and the USA!

Extra special thanks to Charlotte, Rob and Gail for donating their creativity and for their ongoing support!

A big thank you to Bay Woof for their article on Romania Animal Rescue, which appeared in their March newspaper!

Great thanks to "Fetch - the paper" for the article about RAR that will appear in their newspaper!

 

NEWS FROM NANCY
  1. Stainless steel sutures can replace catgut! As we all agree, using "catgut" for sutures is not what any of us want. (Romanian vets currently use catgut and chromic suture material.) I have been contacted by Dr. Isis Johnson, a member of the "Spay Panama" team. Dr. Johnson has trained under Dr. Mackey, the genius behind stainless steel suturing. Stainless steel sutures are cheaper, more durable, great for animals with limited recovery time, and do not require intense caretaking for street dogs.

    Dr. Johnson volunteered to go to Romania this year to train vets on the use of stainless steel suture material, and would supply many of her own needs. WE WERE THRILLED AT HER OFFER, however, RAR IS NOT FINANCIALLY ABLE TO SEND HER TO ROMANIA THIS YEAR. We hope to have the funds for her trip in 2009. UNLESS, THAT IS, ONE OF OUR VERY GENEROUS DONORS WISHES TO FUND THIS TRIP IN 2008!!!

  2. Joy Lee from Mayhew Animal Home wants to do an article on Dr. ILeana's work! We will let you know where to find it as soon as it appears.

 

CAR DONATION PROGRAM

Reminder, RAR NOW HAS THE ABILITY TO ACCEPT VEHICLES AS DONATIONS! *

(*Only available in California)

NEED A TAX DONATION? RAR is now registered with Car Program Inc. which will accept your unwanted vehicle (car, truck, boat, or RV) and provide RAR with a much needed and appreciated financial donation. Go to our website for ***WATCH our website which will soon have instructions and the Donor Form which you can complete on line, or if you need information right now, please contact Nancy Janes directly . (You may not see RAR, Inc. on the Car Program website as yet, as they do not automatically list a new charity on their website; that happens after at least 2 vehicle donations per month, for three months, have been received.)

"HOPE: INTRODUCING ANIMAL WELFARE IN ROMANIA"

REMEMBER, our photo book, "HOPE: Introducing Animal Welfare in Romania" is filled with full-color photographs illustrating exactly how your generous donations are being put to work by RAR in Romania for the benefit of the animals. There are illuminating chapters that describe the history of Romania, it's people, and the reasons for the overpopulation of stray dogs and cats there.

YOU CAN RECEIVE A FREE COPY OF "HOPE" AS OUR GIFT! For a tax-deductible donation of $75 (which will fund 3 spay/neuter procedures), you will receive a full-sized paperbound version of HOPE. For $250, you will fund 10 spay/neuter procedures, and receive the hardbound version of HOPE.

Go to our HOPE page to purchase HOPE and HELP the animals!

Dear Friends and Supporters of RAR and the animals of Romania,

What can I say to you all - but thank you for your support for this very important cause! We have managed to do things that I was told were impossible - working in a foreign country, sterilizing thousands of dogs and cats and preventing the births of hundreds of thousands more; making life better for the animals, through education and training; saving a few lives by relocating them to loving forever homes; and introducing the compassion that we all have for the animals, most of whom we will never meet, to people who never dreamed any of this could be a reality in their country!

WITH WARMEST REGARDS,
NANCY JANES
Founder

ALTHOUGH RELOCATING ANIMALS TO THE USA IS NOT OUR PURPOSE, we feel it is necessary to help the animals who are alive in Romania as best we can, while preventing their births in the first place. We hope that someday in the near future Romania will be in a position to care for its own dogs, but currently, this is not the case. Please remember to adopt animals in your local shelters in the USA, who need loving homes as well!
 

 

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www.romaniaanimalrescue.com
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romaniadogs@sbcglobal.net
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Romania Animal Rescue, Inc.
8000 Morgan Territory Rd, Livermore, CA 94551
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925-672-5908
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72-1546354
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