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    Romanian parliament votes to euthanize stray dogs

    By ALISON MUTLER | AP – Tue, Nov 22, 2011

    BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian lawmakers voted Tuesday to make it legal to euthanize the thousands of stray dogs that roam the country's streets, angering animal rights activists who have lobbied for months to stop the measure.

    Bucharest alone is home to an estimated 50,000 stray dogs, according to local media, and they are a part of city life, crossing the street, snoozing on sidewalks and even hopping on buses. But backers of the law say local governments must have the option to euthanize because the dogs are a public health hazard.

    Though most are not aggressive, a Romanian woman died this year after she was mauled by a pack of dogs. In 2006, a Japanese tourist was killed by a stray.

    Parliament voted by 168-111 to pass the law, which is expected to be signed by President Traian Basescu. The law will allow officials to round up homeless dogs from the street, hold them in shelters for 30 days and then have them killed.

    Animal rights groups gathered in Parliament Tuesday, holding banners calling on lawmakers not to pass the legislation. They are calling for increased funding for sterilization

    Corruption fighters claim the measure is a cynical ploy to enrich local authorities because substantial funding will be allocated for the task.

    "It is a brutal law which will not resolve the problem of street dogs, but will line the pockets" of mayors from the ruling Democratic Liberal Party, animal rights activist Marcela Pisla told The Associated Press.

    The homeless canine population flourished in the late 1980s after Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu razed old houses in residential districts and built high-rise apartments, causing owners to part with pets.

    Nowadays, residents are often tolerant of the strays, with many wearing tags showing they have been sterilized.

     
    • Kady
      Kady  •  London, United Kingdom  •  5 mths ago
      I'm Romanian and I find this that's outrageous as our politicians have received already more then enough funds from the “BRIGITTE BARDOT” foundation to sterilize the dogs which would have cost 14 euros per dog. But our greedy politicians decided they needed more money for their electoral businesses and by running this program by which they get rid of all the dogs through euthanasia will rise for them over 300 mil euros money send by other organisations paid to keep their activity going on. The euthanasia costs over 100 euros per dog. So it's cheaper to sterilize it. Well the corruption has spread to every level since the money they received in the first place for the dogs never reached the institutions meant to help the poor animals and also they had the nerve to change the 2 only laws we have to protects the animals rights law no.9/2008 (legea “MARINESCU 1”) which obliges towards the population's education in the spirit to respect the animal rights and which forbids the euthanasia of healthy animals and their abandonment and the same law project under the same author was asking for initial sterilization of the dogs, identification and implant of microchip. We must do something to punish those politicians that took part in this mass murders!! "Traian Basescu’s campaign of killing dogs has NOT been STOPPED by the NGO’s in 2002“, as the declarations of the PDL go, IT WAS STARTED by Traian Basescu in 2002, a campaign that lasted until 2008 and, even if unofficially is still on ILLEGALLY in many cities of Romania! The whole Europe knows not even a quoter of the story and WE must stop it before this mass killing it's complete!
    • david
      david  •  6 mths ago
      and the genocidal criminalm cancers from u.s. are not a real, compared to assumed health hazard? hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha the correct answer is so obvious and only the blind deaf and dumb and dead gan miss it
    • Craig Zimmerman
      Craig Zimmerman  •  Boulder, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Mass killing is not only senseless and cruel, it has also never solved any animal control problem.
      • Marcia
        Marcia 6 mths ago
        Sorry Craig it truely does solve the animal control problem. Kills it in its tracks. lol I pose this continued problem with letting the animals live. What do they eat? Where do the sleep. Most importantly without shots what do they expose us too?
        The health hazards, fleas, ticks, rabies are just a couple of reasons why they must be put down. I suggest you study just a few of the less common threats to humans by strays. Try thinking of your kids playing in the back yard coming in contact with an infected stray.
    • Scott
      Scott  •  6 mths ago
      then ship them to korea and the phillipines...they love dog meat
      • Nice and Fluffy!
        Nice and Fluffy! 6 mths ago
        I would not prefer that, but if it means feeding families that can't afford food.
      • Palax
        Palax 6 mths ago
        if they dont feel taken as fools or as starved people nation that would be a good idea. Only vegetarian activists are allowed to criticize me.
    • John Sands Daughter
      John Sands Daughter  •  6 mths ago
      with all the floods,droughts going on thinking food supply might be something to consider
    • david
      david  •  6 mths ago
      not even in the same universe for these 2
    • Craig Zimmerman
      Craig Zimmerman  •  Boulder, United States  •  6 mths ago
      The Romanian government should do something positive like establishing a special stray animal fund financed with donor contributions that would give medical care, and a chance for healthy, tame Dogs to be adopted.
      • Palax
        Palax 6 mths ago
        they did something similar and while people don't want them killed, they did not help. After a while most owners of those dogs released them on the streets. And I'll put my bet that funds rising will be low for such a task. Uninvolvement of any external (other than authorities) forced such actions because they are a nuisance. A month ago I had to defend myself in park from a pack of dogs.
      • Arthur J.M
        Arthur J.M 6 mths ago
        I agree, been to Romania on several occasion lived there for a while and also very recently and it's easy to comment and say do this , do that, raise funds but they've been struggling for decades to solve this problem and the only time when they wanted to start fixing it , a few years ago, thanks to animal rights groups they've pushed some law that made it illegal and punishable by prison to harm street dogs, this meant that even local authorities could do nothing but catch and release them most cities don't have bigger dog pounds than few hundred or less places whereas there are probably millions of dogs in the whole of Romania. At one time Bucharest was estimated to have over 500.000 stray dogs, now it's a bit better but the best would be to have none.Putting them down without pain is a solution, after all "Human's rights" are and should always be above "Animal's rights" and in this case, where people are threatened, where it created a bad environment for raising children, spread disease and even attack and kill humans....then what is there to discuss ? They should start ASAP !!!!
    • david
      david  •  6 mths ago
      the dogs are a what they are, but the 2legged deadhead dogtags of the genocidal maniacs have no excuses for their chosen song and dance. it is even close by a gazillion miles between these 2
    • happybee
      happybee  •  6 mths ago
      Our government would go over and hand out free condoms costing millions of dollars to fix the problem.
    • Mike S
      Mike S  •  Vancouver, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Depressing article. Sometimes doing what's ugly is the only answer.
    • Xellos
      Xellos  •  San Antonio, United States  •  6 mths ago
      That sound like PETA would be doing right now and wasting all their money on useless ad's
    • SpeedyGonzalez
      SpeedyGonzalez  •  O'fallon, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Euthanize those who ran the clandestine interrogation sites within Romania as part of the Bush/Cheney Rendition program, spare the dogs!!
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