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These are the pictures concerning the dogs of Glina taken during my last visit at the end of January.
Notwithstanding the real difficulties due to cold weather and snow, the situation has decidedly improved as, thanks to the donations collected, it was possible to guarantee them food, veterinary treatment and a suitable shelter. We bought 40 double doghouses and 100 single doghouses, 50 of which meant for the Leyla shelter which houses 600 dogs.
We bought also a wood house to keep the food in, which can also be used by the workers, and a container to keep the puppies which need treatment in order to protect them from cold and guarantee the necessary hygienic conditions
Since the beginning of October we bought over 15 tons of food for the 400 dogs of Glina and the 600 ones of the Leyla’s shelter. We bought a truckful of gravel and straw to be used inside the doghouses to keep them warm.
Vaccinations, various emergency surgery operations and sterilization were carried out at the Ortovet clinic, which is sponsored by Lamento Rumeno with your help. We have settled a budget for 18.000 euro (1.500 euro/month) for the vaccination/sterilization program. Bowls, blankets, coats, veterinary material, all the material collected thanks to you was promptly sent to Bucharest. The food collections organized by many of your personally (grateful thanks to Animals Club of Trieste, to the associations and single volunteers for their precious contribution) were of fundamental importance. Click to watch the video: http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPjKMHl57I My disappointment and resentment are due to the quite unclear situation concerning the fund collection in favour of Glina’s dogs. I received many notifications about a number of links, web sites and forums which mention the donations given by Lamento Rumeno Onlus to Glina’s dogs and which clearly ask for funds to be paid on personal bank current accounts of single individuals or associations totally unknown to me. Lamento Rumeno never received any proposal/ request for a common partnership to support these animals by third parties. We have spent 22.000 euro ( a part for the 600 dogs hosted at Leyla shelter) to improve the terrible conditions we found during our first visit in Glina, last October 2007. We express our doubt concerning the destination and the proper use of the funds raised by some "animals lovers" on the web mentioned above. What Lamento Rumeno gave was for the only and total benefit of Glina’s dogs, the victims of an irresponsible and unsuitable management which caused them only pain, hunger, illness and death. Lamento Rumeno does not cooperate with Gabriela Lazar nor with Zdreanta Association. No donation has been made by Lamento Rumeno directly to Zdreanta Association. The reason why in some of the previous communications, promptly amended, Lamento Rumeno Onlus mentioned the name of Zdreanta Association is due to an inaccuracy on the part of who contacted us to ask for our intervention. 
A devastated snout, two flabbergasted eyes is what remains of this dog that like many others was assaulted by other starving mates. These are the images of my last trip to Romania last October. Two shelters: Leyla Shelter, 600 dogs to be immediately evacuated; after the decease of the owner’s ground where are the dogs is now on sale therefore their transference is a priority. There is a food emergency; these dogs extremely need veterinary treatments; more than 450 dogs need to be sterilized and vaccinated as 150 were already sterilized at the Ortovet Clinic.
Glina, 400 in a field in the middle of nowhere about 70 km from Bucharest.
It is a total desperation: they are in the mud; there is neither water, nor electricity. The food is missing; the dogs feed themselves with bones, butchers’ rejects that cannot be sold again. The greatest part of them is affected by scab; very widespread are the dermatologic and intestinal problems due to the scarce and appalling nourishment; their excrements are full of blood.  
There is a remarkable number of puppies in both kennels: some of them, even so young attempt to feed themselves with bones while others are trying to feed themselves from their mother that is by now deprived of any resources.
At the moment, I could transfer 4.000 euros to buy food that is useful to halt the emergency for a very short time considering the elevated number of dogs that need to be fed. We are activating ourselves to transfer the puppies to cure, vaccinate and sterilized them so that we can find them an adoption. The prior target is that of expanding the program of vaccination and sterilization to all dogs. I need help. The emergencies are so many and of such severe entity that I extremely need your solidarity. I urge all the associations, the volunteers and the activist groups to offer their availability to organize activities, boards and charity dinners, especially during the Christmas holidays to support these two realities. I urge all the single supporters to subscribe a sponsorship, to donate a sterilization or a dog’s bed. Any form of aid is extremely important; we need bowls, parasiticidal treatments and veterinary material. You can give your contribution by divulgating via mail this call for help. Whoever is interested to travel with me to this place next December can contact me at the following address: info@lamentorumeno.org Thank you for everything you will be able to do. Laura Pontini www.lamentorumeno.org
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