Yet another victim of Moldovan stray animal abuse, this dog was found near a Moldovan highway on February 19, hanging from a tree. The poor animal was buried on the spot. The image was taken from Casa Katarina dog shelter’s Facebook page. 
Tag / Animal protection
Valentine’s Day Charity Raffle
Each month Friends of Moldavian Strays (FOMS) UK will be holding a monthly raffle to support the work of the Areal ‘Live’ Dog Rescue Shelter in Moldova and our very first raffle is on Valentine’s Day! One winner will become the proud owner of this stunning bear who we have named Heart in memory of one of the very first residents at the Shelter, also named Heart, who sadly died last week. This gorgeous bear will arrive holding a chocolate red rose, heart balloon plus a box of delicious Thornton’s Hearts & Kisses truffles. All proceeds from this raffle will go directly to helping the dogs at the Shelter. As this is our first ever raffle, we will even cover the cost of the P&P! Don’t delay, buy your ticket today!
RAFFLE TICKETS: £2 per ticket (Closing date 7pm on 14th February 2015).
HOW TO PAY: Payment is requested via our Paypal Address: fomsuk@hotmail.com
Please follow these instructions for Paypal Payments:
1. Click on ‘Pay or Send Money’ tab
2. Enter the fomsuk@hotmail.com paypal address
3. Enter the payment amount in GBP
4. Click on the ‘I’m sending money to family or friends’
5. Please mark payment as ‘FOMS Raffle’ plus your full name
6. Click ‘Continue’
One of the recent drastic discoveries by shelter workers
Back in late January, the volunteers discovered a box with 9 dead puppies at a dumpster not too far from “Live” shelter. All of the pups bore evident signs of starvation. The volunteers filed a complaint with the local police, however, knowing that animal protection laws are effectively nonexistent in the country, it is unlikely that the culprit would be caught and punished.
URGENT FOOD FUNDS APPEAL
Can you help our dogs at Live Shelter please? The food supplies are running very low and it is freezing, -22 degrees today. There are 240 dogs to feed every day and in order to feed these dogs just ONCE a day, the Shelter goes through:
3 x 25g bags of grains (such as porridge, rice, macaroni or pearl barley) = £13.25 or $20
2 x 25kgs of meat and bones = £13.25 or $20
2 x 15g bags vegetables (potatoes, carrots, beets) = £6.63 or $10
In addition they need firewood to light the fires in order to cook the food and keep these fires lit throughout the night for warmth = £2.75 or $4.13.
The total cost to feed the dogs ONCE a day is £35.88 or $54.13.
Please can you make a small donation, whatever you can afford to: Friends of Moldavian Strays UK at our Paypal address: fomsUK@hotmail.com
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FROM ALL OF US AT THE SHELTER
Winter frost
Melting snow from the surrounding fields over the fire, all – to get water to cook food and give the 200 dogs a drink. That’s what “Live” shelter workers had to face over the last few days, when the winter colds hit hard and the water froze over in the pipes. Unfortunately, the extra layer of lining they used didn’t withstand the cold.
Thankfully, Ann, whom you may have read about in one of our first articles on the blog, and her husband Igor, managed to replace the faulty parts and restore the water supply to the shelter on their own. A few photos from the plumbing operation.
Winter in Bacioi
Winter has well and truly arrived in Moldova and at Bacioi dog shelter, as you can see from these pictures. Last week an unfortunate few days of weather combining rain, snow and below freezing temperatures turned the shelter into an ice rink and both the workers and the dogs were slipping and sliding all over the place. We had to lay tracks of sand down to help us walk without falling over.
At this time of the year it is really important for us that the dogs keep warm enough, especially at night, because we don’t have much indoor spaces, or enough kennels for the number of dogs that we have. For this reason if anyone can spare some fabrics – old clothes or blankets – that we can use for the dogs, either to make clothes for them or to fill their kennels with, then we would really appreciate it, and I’m sure the dogs would too. Thanks for reading.
How you can help (a brief survey of our needs)
What are our needs and how can your donations help? Here’s a short post to give you a brief outline of our current situation, extra photographs and additional reports, daily cost estimates and extra projects details are to follow shortly.
VACANCY: Molovan Stray Animal Protection Society Volunteer
Vacancy for EVS Volunteer in Moldova, Republic of
Contact person: Natalia Alexandrov
Coordinating organisation: ADVIT ICYE Moldova
Host: Association for the protection of homeless animals “ALGA”:http://www.alga.md/
Location: Chisinau, Moldova, Republic of
Deadline: 30/09/2014
Start: 01/10/2014
End: 30/08/2015
Association for the Protection of Homeless Animals “ALGA” is a non-profit organization, created in 2006. The Association is run solely by volunteers, who are dedicating their time and money to helping the homeless animals of the country.
ALGA’s objectives:
– reducing the overpopulation of street animals by using human methods;
– protecting street animals from the cruel and inhuman treatment;
– creating necessary conditions for a good coexistence between people and animals;
– education, by helping people to understand that there are other methods than killing dogs.
Our current activities are:
– introducing a moratorium on the killing of homeless animals;
– adoption of a municipal program with the purpose of reducing the overpopulation of homeless animals through sterilization/spraying as the only acceptable mean for population control;
– withdrawal of all rights from the state enterprise “Autosalubritatea” (Garbage and sanitation), currently entrusted with dealing with the homeless animals and transfer the matter under the control of the Veterinary Department;
– creation of a centre for sterilization, vaccination and temporary hosting of homeless animals in Chisinau;
– creation of a group of staff, such as specialists for catching homeless animals, vets, personnel for the care of animals etc;
– isolation of animals, representing a threat for the society (such as aggressive dogs or dogs with infectious diseases);
– adoption and implementation on a national level of a law on the protection of animals, including strict rules for animal possession;
– creation of educational programmes for younger generation, to be thought in the schools of the country.
Tasks
Volunteer will help to: – Clean and take care of the places where the animals stay. – Play with animals. – Create the places where the animals stay (putting the attributes on the right places) and make this places ready for the animals. – Do fortification and does behavior observation on the animals. – Feed the animals. – Help veterinary doctor. – Register animals and prepare reports this
Criteria
The main recruitment criteria is: – To be motivated; – Having experience with working in a NGO. It would be good if volunteer would have a small experience in being active in an NGO in his/her own country to show that the person really wants to take part in exactly this project; – Having affinity and experience in the work with animals.
Procedure
All interested candidates must submit their CV and motivation letter indicating the project they are applying for, when you are able to start your project and for how many months you are available, contact details of your sending organization to ADVIT Moldova by email advit_ewb@yahoo.com The selection of the candidates will be on-going.
One day in the life of a stray dog savior
Have you ever even wondered, what are the days at dog shelters like? Especially, the ones located in one of the poorest countries of Europe, where every day is a dire fight to save lives, against all odds, and animal cruelty is rampant?
Read the account of Ann, a stray animal rights activist and active volunteer at “Live” SNR shelter located in Chisinau, Moldova.
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