Four Paws, TASSO and BMT want four paws international pressure for a withdrawal, TASSO and BMT want long fought on the animal rights activists in Romania and across Europe against international pressure for a withdrawal, now it was nevertheless decided on Tuesday: the nonsensical and animal-unfriendly act, which again legalized the mass killing of Streunerhunden in Romania. The international animal protection organization against abuse of animals (bmt) but continue to fight four paws, TASSO E.v. and the Federal Government. Appeals at the national constitutional court as also protests in Western European countries should move to the Romanian President Traian Basescu, not to pass the Bill. “It is really incredible that a country in the EU decides a law as barbaric, even though it only has abolished a similar from a few year,” Helmut Dungler, Managing Director of four paws is shocked. “The decision is a really sad result for a Member State of the European Union. This law will help doesn’t even begin to solve the Streunerhundeproblem animal welfare-friendly and sustainable”, as Philip McCreight, TASSO Director. Since 1995, the animal welfare Foundation in Romania has the single method, which causes a sustainable reduction in the dog population according to various studies.
While the stray dogs are caught, neutered and returned in their original territory after a medical check. Thus, they continue to occupy this area and thus lower the entire population in the long term. More than 150,000 dogs have been treated, and a significant reduction in animal numbers could be determined in the respective regions. “Now required the castration of owner dogs as in Brasov, the number of street dogs will reduce also sustainably, not the indiscriminate collection and killing”, says Petra Zipp, Chairman of the bmt. Despite these demonstrable successes there was now the decision of a new law that allows local communities to decide independently about the fate of the strays.