Romania's stray dogs and wild foxes purged prior to NATO summit

Poco

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Romania's stray dogs and wild foxes purged prior to NATO summit

« on: April 04, 2008, 11:55:53 AM »

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/04/02/europe/EU-GEN-NATO-Summit-Stray-Dogs.php
Romanian officials purging NATO summit venues of stray dogs and wild foxes
The Associated PressPublished: April 2, 2008

BUCHAREST, Romania: "Romanian authorities are securing the NATO summit against four-legged threats: Bucharest's infamous stray dogs and the wild foxes that roam the Black Sea coast.

Officials Bucharest have been picking up as many of the city's estimated 30,000 stray dogs as possible. They do not want the dogs biting anyone here for the summit, which began Wednesday and runs through Friday. And some fear the animals could jump in front of leaders' motorcades and cause crashes.

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At the Black Sea resort of Neptun, where U.S. President George W. [edited] met with Romanian President Traian Basescu, professional hunters scoured nearby forests teeming with foxes.

A local mayor, Traian Cristea, said the foxes often venture onto the roads where [edited]'s convoy passed, and the hunters were trying to frighten the animals deeper into the woods."

Were they trying to protect the foxes, or the convoy from the foxes? I hope they didn't hurt them. At least the dogs will be let loose again, though there are a lot of strays in Bucharest from the sound of it. But they do have a strong no-kill policy there, according to the article.


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« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2008, 12:01:17 PM »

Between travelling dignataries & the Olympics, we will soon be rid of all those pesky stray dogs & cats & half the remaining wildlife in the world.


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« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2008, 12:24:33 PM »

I came across this Save The Dogs site this week, and it reports the "catchings" from Romania and Italy:

http://www.savethedogs.eu/

http://www.savethedogs.eu/?p=1807

http://www.savethedogs.eu/?cat=11

http://www.savethedogs.eu/?cat=33

http://www.savethedogs.eu/?cat=63

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/02/world/europe/02dogs.html?_r=3&scp=1&sq=dogs+romania&st=nyt&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin


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Poco

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« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2008, 01:54:55 PM »

Ah! We have some politics going on, Shibadiva. Sounds like the government is hostile to TNR programs. And the NYT link has a theory about why there are so many stray dogs there in the first place.

"The stray dogs of Romania are one of the longest running stories in Eastern Europe. Their population first exploded when the Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu demolished thousands of houses to make way for an ill-considered reconstruction plan. Residents forced to move into tiny apartments had no room for their dogs, which they then put out on the street."

Sound like a communist version of our HUD programs and the subprime debacle. Animals always end up suffering due to human corruption and folly.

I'm strongly suspecting the fox intervention was an excuse to get around hunting laws. Angry


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Trudy

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« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2008, 02:11:05 PM »

Petslave, you are right. If this keeps on, the world won't have a thing to worry about [no more animals]. Save the Da#$ politicians.


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« Reply #5 on: April 04, 2008, 02:12:24 PM »

And if it's like most places, the foxes should have their babies in a den by now, or be pregnant. So they will all die.


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shibadiva

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« Reply #6 on: April 04, 2008, 07:44:27 PM »

Klondike Politics indeed. A press release to at least three newspapers that we know of. And the dogs are apparently to be turned loose in the streets again after the NATO Summit has concluded.

I'm so pleased that the Save The Dogs group is pursuing trap-neuter-return procedures.

One cannot say the same for the hapless animals in Beijing.

A doggie Rwanda.


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