The Ploiesti Neutering Challenge and emergency sterilizations

In the last few months we have started collaborating for sterilizations with another local veterinary clinic in Ploiesti, in addition to the FPCC vet team which covers our large sterilization days. At this new local vet clinic we strive to cover especially the emergency sterilization surgeries needed asap.

Meet the animals sterilized at this vet clinic over the course of one week:

Recently abandoned in the streets of Ploiesti, found already pregnant; sterilized on April 17th

Forefront: little abandoned female in heat; she was adopted locally, and we also sterilized the doggie in the back, the adopter's old dog; so two more sterilizations on April 19th

Poppy, found in the streets in heat; sterilized on April 22nd

Two more emergency sterilizations on April 23rd; the elderly owner of these 2 dogs got too sick to be able to care for them; we had both dogs sterilized, we managed to rehome locally one of the dogs, and are about to rehome locally the second dog as well

We realize sometimes it really is a must to be able to sterilize animals asap, and not have to wait until we have enough donations for a full sterilization day. For the animals in heat harassed by males, for pregnant animals, being able to sterilize them asap can make all the difference. 

These 6 emergency sterilizations were kindly made possible by Zoe and her dear Onbe, Maureen, Lin, Angela and Silvia. Thank you so much for your thoughtful gift!

Happy Poppy Update!

Remember little Poppy, the tiny young female abandoned in the streets of Ploiesti when going into heat? Good news! Poppy has become a little English lady in the meantime. Now she is happily adopted in England and looking forward to a bright and happy future ahead.

Little Miss Poppy yesterday, resting in her new home after a long journey to the UK

Thank you so very much, Lisa and Zoe, for making this possible for little Poppy!

Poppy was extremely lucky, but like Poppy there are thousands of other needy dogs and pups in the streets of Ploiesti... For timely updates about our most recent rescue cases please follow us on Facebook at this link. You never know, you may simply stumble upon the dream doggie you've been looking for all along!

Ploiesti Neutering Challenge Day 28

On April 15th we held Day 28 of the Ploiesti Neutering Challenge, a day in which we sterilized at the FPCC vet clinic a total of 17 females (7 cats and 10 dogs). Almost all animals were already pregnant. A sorely needed sterilization day.

Spring is a disheartening season in terms of animal welfare; so many pregnant stray animals, so many newly abandoned pregnant dogs, so many abandoned pups. We fight through sterilizations to prevent as much as possible more unhappy souls from being brought into a life of suffering.

Here's Day 28 in pictures:

 Sweet female dogs, most already pregnant, waiting to be sterilized

If I remember correctly, ALL sterilized cats on Day 28 were already pregnant

On Day 28, 17 more females sterilized, dozens more pups and kitten that won't be born anymore in the streets of Ploiesti this spring. Thank you from the heart to the ones who made this sterilization day possible! Many big thanks to: Ulrike (an ongoing donor for 1 year + since the Ploiesti Neutering Challenge started), Toni (a fabulous supporter of cat sterilizations), Vivi Ann, Claudia, Beverly, Satu, Christina, Zoe and her beloved Onbe!

The kindest love towards animals is the rational love

 

You would not allow your companion animal to go through the most excruciating pain as it gets old and dieing, right? Your great love would dictate you that, when the time comes and the quality of life decreases so much and the pain is so severe, you'd humanely put it to sleep, right? As rational love is the kindest act of love you could give to your beloved sweetheart.

It's the same in a Romanian city like Ploiesti with estimates of up to 8,000 strays living and feeding in the streets, with no vet care, regular feeding times, good quality food, safety. The rational love dictates that we sterilize as many of them as possible, so no more pups would be born to a life of suffering. This is exactly the aim of our Ploiesti Neutering Challenge, a campaign that has sterilized this year alone 340 animals. We love them so much that we wish to do everything in our power to prevent more suffering.

One sterilization costs us 21 euro. How many litters will not be born to suffer with each and every single sterilization...

We kindly ask you to show your rational love towards our dear Romanian strays and help us prevent more future suffering through sterilizations.

Very many thanks!

PayPal: sterilizariploiesti@yahoo.com

Alternate donation methods can be found on the right side of this blog.

PS: Of the litter in the image above, only 2 pups got adopted; the rest were killed in traffic or by adult male dogs patrolling the area...