In Romania`s other locations, until the 1st of April 2019, F.P.C.C. has neutered 37,931 dogs :
GORJ
Targu Carbunesti - 998
Ticleni - 109
Motru - 1.068
Rovinari - 1.332
Sadu - 495
Targu Jiu - 20
PRAHOVA
Campina - 8.700
Baicoi - 1.555
Filipesti - 689
Magureni - 962
Floresti - 322
Banesti - 197
Plopeni - 1.134
Cornu - 269
Comarnic - 404
Breaza - 66
Telega - 62
Brebu - 41
Moreni - 354
Provita - 32
Bratasanca - 12
Sinaia - 70
Valea Doftanei - 4
Brazi - 180
Ploiesti - 1.201
Petrobrazi - 22
Predeal - 90
Habud - 14
Alunis - 5
Busteni - 3
Sintesti - 3
Poiana - 3
Paulesti - 3
Dumbravesti - 6
Cheia - 1
Bucov - 1.502
Blejoi - 14
Stoienesti - 12
Barcanesti - 4
DAMBOVITA
Targoviste - 225
ARGES
Mioveni (the shelter + surroundings) - 7.570
Campulung - 1.139
Domnesti - 11
Maracineni - 26
Curtea de Arges - 4
Boteni - 5
Contesti - 39
Pitesti - 25
Stalpeni - 5
Valea Mare - 2
Budeasa - 7
Valea Stanii - 8
Darmanesti - 2
ARAD
Pancota - 1.851
Ineu de Arad--103
CONSTANTA
Negru-Voda - 345
SUCEAVA
Suceava - 344
HARGHITA
Gheorgheni - 274
NEAMT
Piatra Neamt - 24
ILFOV
Bucuresti - 5
Snagov - 18
SATU MARE
Carei - 228
GALATI
Galati - 304
CARAS SEVERIN
Otelu Rosu - 123
Moldova Noua - 210
Oravita--650
Bocsa--146
TIMIS
Lugoj - 104
HUNEDOARA
Hunedoara-117
ALBA
Arieseni - 9
F.P.C.C.`s first fixed neutering centre was in Campina in 2001. In the 2 years to 2003 we neutered and returned 4.469 dogs in Campina but then the municipality cancelled the contract because we could not make them understand that friendly, neutered dogs returned to the community should be tolerated on the streets. Campina Municipality has been paying Euros 30 / dog to a commercial vet to catch and kill dogs for the last 4 years. As in Bucharest the result is that Campina`s streets are still full of dogs, only now many of those dogs are fertile, and almost none is vaccinated.
F.P.C.C. has however continued to neuter and return 1.148 dogs since 2003 in villages around Campina.
F.P.C.C.`s former Campina shelter with 200 dogs was partly an open shelter where about 80 dogs at any time are unrestricted and able to run free to the Doftanei river and in the surrounding pasture land. This gives an acceptable quality of life to long term residents of our shelter and has been a successful solution to the catch 22 situation of euthanasia v.s. incarceration in a cramped prison for the rest of the dogs life.
In May 2010 Campina Municipality expelled F.P.C.C. from this shelter. It is unclear what fate awaite the 110 dogs which remain.
We are delighted to report that in July 2018 Campina Municipality awarded their dog management contract to Mrs Mihaela Teodoru of Asociatia pentru Protectia Animalelor Ploiesti who has now taken over management of their municipal death camp from the previous manager, local entrepreneur Mr Alexandru Chirobocea, for whom – to put it politely – the welfare of dogs was not a priority. Mrs Teodoru has worked for many years rescuing and feeding dogs in Ploiesti Municipality’s Bucov concentration camp.
Our other fixed neutering clinic is in Mioveni near Pitesti. Carmen Arsene of AULIM in Pitesti negotiated the contract in Mioveni in order to prevent fertile Mioveni dogs being dumped in Pitesti, where AULIM and F.P.C.C. jointly agreed a Neuter & Return contract. The clinic in Mioveni also serves Campulung when our mobile clinic is not visiting Campulung.
In Mioveni a number of long term shelter residents also live free in and around our shelter, which is near the municipal rubbish dump. Many feral dogs live apparently healthy lives around this dump once they are neutered by us. Some of these dogs prefer the garbage to the various brands of dogfood we offer them !
Our sister organisation in Istanbul, S.H.K.D. has also successfully opened its shelter gates to about 80 dogs which sleep and eat inside their pens but which are free to wander the surrounding forests.
Our neutering contracts in the 5 towns in Gorj province were arranged by Mrs. Carmena Serbanoiu of Pro Animals in Tirgu Jiu. Although Mrs. Serbanoiu has a shelter in Tg Jiu the mayor has failed to implement Neuter & Return. Instead municipal dog catchers continue to collect dogs which they then either kill illegally (since there is no municipal shelter as per Law No. 227) or dump in the surrounding towns where F.P.C.C. has neutering contracts. For as long as Neuter & Return is not implemented in Tg. Jiu we will not be able to stem the flow of fertile dogs into the surrounding area. Rovinari is a particular victim of dog dumping, resulting in very high dog density in this former mining town.
In Suceava we neutered 344 dogs at Bruno Pets shelter on behalf of the owner, Mrs. Eugenia Ies.
Since 2007 till today we neutered during our mobile neutering campaigns in Pancota, Oravita, Ineu de Arad, Bocsa, Moldova Noua and Hunedoara 3047 dogs.