The Public Shelter is located on the main country roads of Botosani. Often dogs are abandoned at the entrance to the shelter from the car. And it is not uncommon that these animals run after the car in panic and are run over by another car. Or the dogs carelessly change sides of the road and then die in a car accident. Opposite the entrance to the "Public Shelter" is a car repair shop. And it just so happens that the owner is Anca's mechanic.

That evening, Anca's mechanic called her and told her that when his son came home from school, he saw a young dog sitting at the shelter's driveway. Cars would drive past the dog and each time this dog would get up and run a few steps towards the car. Each time a very dangerous situation for the furry nose. As his son is very fond of animals, he brought the dog home with him. It was a young female. So friendly and sweet. She licked his son's hands and face. Unfortunately, he couldn't keep the female as he already had 3 dogs. More just wouldn't do.

Anca agreed with her mechanic to take in Sinka, as she is now called. Now this lovely furry nose is waiting with Anca for people who will no longer abandon her.

The main road from Botosani to Trusesti has been rehabilitated piecemeal for a few years and partly also newly built. Some sections of the road are simple gravel roads or have not yet been properly paved at the roadside.

Anca was on her way home. Shortly after leaving Trusesti, where you are still supposed to drive slowly, Anca saw a small dog standing on the side of the road opposite her. Anca stopped and at that moment a car also passed by the side of the little dog. When Anca's view of the dog was clear again, she saw that the little furry nose had flattened itself on the ground. It lay there as if petrified. Anca hurried over and addressed the furry nose. Its head moved, sad eyes looked up at Anca.

It was a female. She had probably been abandoned by the roadside a short time before. Anca spoke to her quietly and quickly the little female became braver, stood up and her tail wagged like crazy. She was given some dry food and then Anca took her in her arms and carried her to her car. Now Elka, the little female, is safe with Anca.

Shortly before Easter, it was once again winter in Romania for 2 days. A snowstorm swept across the country. The temperatures went into the minus range again. A lot of snow fell during these few days. For two days, Botosani was declared a "red zone". No cars were allowed to drive. Everything came to a standstill. Anca was not able to get to her feeding places. When it was possible again, Anca immediately went on her tour to Trusesti.

On the way home from Trusesti, Anca's last feeding stop is always the rest area at the Dealu Mare forest. Not only do stray dogs wait for Anca there, but pets are also abandoned there time and again. Mostly dog or cat puppies. Even as Anca drove towards the rest area, she saw 2 small dogs sitting close to the roadside. It looked like the two dogs were waiting for their owner, who had left them here but would never come back.

A little shy and cautious at first, the two puppies made contact. The wet food smelled too good and the puppies were very hungry. All caution was quickly forgotten and the two furry noses pounced on the food. Afterwards, there was no more shyness on the part of the two furry noses, on the contrary, they pressed themselves against us humans and were happy to be taken along. Now both puppies are with Anca and are being nursed.

On the way to Trusesti, there is a petrol station near the small village of Siliscani. An elderly female lives there and is tolerated by the tenant. Every morning Anca stops at this petrol station to give the female her breakfast. Word has spread among the stray dogs that food is distributed there and so other stray dogs from the surrounding area rush over.

That day, Anca saw a new furry nose that was reluctant to come to the petrol station. Anca left some wet food behind and hoped that the furry nose would come back the next morning.

And so it was. However, the furry nose was no longer as cautious as the day before. On the contrary, she rushed over and let Anca touch and stroke her. It was a female and this was the opportunity to take her with us and have her spayed. That's how it happened. The plan was to bring the female back to the petrol station after the castration as well.

After the recovery period, Anca was on her way to the petrol station with the female. But the female was so friendly, so sweet, so trusting of people, that Anca drove past the petrol station and took Felicita, as she is now called, home with her. Now Felicita lives in the "Safe Place" and we hope that the lovely female will soon find her forever people.

7 puppies, only a few weeks old, were abandoned on a road somewhere in the mountains. Far and wide no mother dog was running around on the road. Fortunately for the 7 puppies, a car was able to brake in time. Someone took pity on them, collected all 7 pups and took them with him. However, this person felt totally overwhelmed with the 7 hungry puppies calling for their mother. With some bread, this human left the puppies in an old ruined house.

This was the second time the puppies had been abandoned. But it would not be the last time before Anca heard of their fate.

Someone found the crying puppies at the abandoned ruin and gave them wet food to eat. By now the pups were quite weakened, thin and not in a good condition otherwise. This someone finally took the furry little ones to Trusesti to the local cemetery and left them there. He told his story of finding the puppies to a friend of Anca. This friend took care of the 7 puppies, made a phone call and brought the little puppies to Anca.

Now the 7 puppies are in Anca's care and we hope that they will all make it and survive.

That morning, a surprise awaited Anca when she arrived at the high school in Trusesti.

Someone placed a cardboard box in front of the entrance gate to the school in the early hours of the morning. Schoolchildren found the box and opened it. What emerged was a young puppy. The children took the puppy to the school grounds and looked after it until Anca arrived at the school.

First the little one got something to eat from Anca. A student approached Anca and said he would like to adopt the puppy. He had already spoken to his parents and they agreed. Anca knows the student well and also his family, so she trusts him and gave him the little furry nose.

But better safe than sorry. Anca phoned the boy's parents and also explained to them that the puppy would have to be vaccinated and later, when he was old enough, neutered. Only under these conditions would she give the little one away. The family agreed to everything.

More and more people in Romania understand the need for vaccination and castration of their own pets.

After Anca had finished her feeding tour through Trusesti, she wanted to stop by to see the dogs at the farm, as she had done the last few days. (We have already reported about the dogs at the farm in previous posts).

On the way to the farm, Anca always passes an old bus stop. A concrete shell. Just like that, in the middle of nowhere. Surrounded only by fields and wild meadows. And yet Anca sees two puppies running around in front of this concrete building. How can you abandon puppies here in the middle of nowhere, knowing full well that these young furbabies will starve to death? Unbelievable!!!

The two puppies were fearful and reserved at first, but their hunger and the delicious smelling wet food quickly made them forget their fear of the stranger. They greedily devoured the food. The two puppies were very thin, but their bellies were full of worms. After the two had licked the last bit of sauce off the ground, Anca took them in her arms without any problems and brought them safely to her car.

In the middle of the forest, a forest worker found 2 puppies on his way to his work site. The two pups were huddled together on a tree stump. He could not leave the puppies there and took them with him. When he arrived at his work, he phoned Cristina, his neighbour and also one of Anca's foster homes. He knew that she took care of abandoned animals in need of help. Cristina in turn told Anca the fate of the two puppies. Anca arranged to meet the forest worker to look at the two puppies.

They were very thin and their hip bones were clearly protruding. The forest worker told Anca that he always walked the same way to work, so he suspected that someone had abandoned the two puppies on the forest path during the night.

The two puppies were only a few weeks old. They were running around excitedly, completely confused and looking for their mother. Anca took the two puppies to her "Safe Place". There, the puppies are now being cared for and live together with other puppies so that they no longer feel so alone.

There is news about the dog pack at the farm.
We reported about it a few days ago.

Anca was able to take a female to her vet to have her spayed. 3 puppies were adopted by families. They are families that Anca knows and so the puppies are in good hands there.

Now for the reddish brown male who had an accident and can only walk/hop on 2 legs. He has become trusting, so that Anca was able to take him with her to introduce him to her vet. Together they thought about how to help Edy, as he is now called. Anca's vet wants to try to save Edy's front leg and thus his life.

Edy's leg was stabilised with a fixator and screws in a complex operation. However, at the moment it is not clear whether the nerves have been damaged by the fracture or not. We will only know when the fracture has healed and the fixator has been removed.

Edy is a very sweet dog who takes everything in his stride. Anca estimates him to be about 4 or 5 years old. Now we hope that Edy will be lucky and that everything will turn out well and he will be able to walk again, on 3 legs.

Anca would be very happy to receive financial help for the operation costs of Edy and also of Tessy (her front leg had to be amputated).
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In the morning, before school started, a colleague of Anca's told her that she had been seeing a medium-sized female on the side of the road on her way to school for a few days. And always in the same place. Today she had also left some dry food for the female. Anca's colleague showed her a photo that she had quickly taken before she drove on.

Anca suspected that someone had abandoned this dog there. Now this furry nose was waiting for its owner to return, but he would never come back. Anca asked her colleague to please take this dog with her on the way home and to take it to school the next morning. Anca would take the dog. Anca's colleague agreed.

That's how it happened. The next morning, Anca's colleague handed her the dog from the roadside in the middle of nowhere. It was a female and was named Soraya. Anca estimates the female to be about 7 years old. Her incisors are totally worn out. Anca suspects that Soraya must have been gnawing on something hard, repeatedly and over a long period of time. Now Soraya is with Anca and is being fed up.

A young female was wandering around looking for something to eat. No one knows where she came from. She was thin and very hungry. The young female passed a property from which a delicious smell emanated. She ran through the open gate to the house and looked around the corner. Oh yes, that was where the smell was coming from. But suddenly a man was standing there watching her. The female likes people and immediately started wagging, hoping maybe to get something to eat. But then the man grabbed her, carried her to the fence surrounding the property and threw her over it. Then he went back to his house.

Anca was at home and did not hear her phone ring. It was only an hour later that she noticed the call and called the number back. It was a neighbour who told her about a young female with one blue and one brown eye that had strayed onto his property. Anca asked where this female was now. He would go and see and bring her the female. Some time passed, but nothing happened. No further call. Nothing. At some point Anca looked out of the window and saw a dog in front of her house. She went outside and saw Ana, a young female with one blue and one brown eye. Anca's neighbour probably didn't think it was necessary to call and just let the female run loose on the property. Ana had a lacing wound on her muzzle, probably from being thrown over the fence. Otherwise Ana was unharmed, but with a huge hunger.

Towards afternoon, after Anca had finished her feeding tour of Trusesti, she wanted to stop by one of her foster homes on her way home. It was not such a big diversions, but from time to time it was necessary to check the health of the foster animals.

Their drive took them through wild terrain. Grassland alternated with small woods and farmland. No house, no stable, nothing and yet out of the corner of her eye Anca saw a black dot in the grass, close to the road. Her intuition made Anca stop to look. Maybe it was just a tree stump. Anca got out and someone came running up. A small dog. It was a female and her tail wagged incessantly. She immediately let Anca pet her and pressed her head against Anca's hand. Without any problems, Maggie, as Anca would later call the female, let herself be picked up and carried to the car.

Maggie felt very comfortable in the back seat. The little furry nose was just happy that someone came and took her along. During the rest of the drive to the foster home, Maggie behaved in an exemplary calm manner. Even the time she was alone in the car waiting, she stayed and looked. Also the drive to Anca's home - simply exemplary.

When we arrived at Anca's house, Maggie had a big meal, because the little female was very hungry and thin. While she was eating, Anca treated her against parasites, because Maggie's fur seemed to be full of bugs.

Let's move on ... this day had it all. It was already very full of events ... overflowing.

On the way home, Anca received a message from one of her students. The young man told Anca that he had found 6 puppies in a field while walking. There was also a sheep shelter at this field. Possibly the puppies had been abandoned there by someone in the hope that the shepherd would find them, or the shepherd himself had left the young puppies there. But it did not change anything, the puppies could not stay there.

Anca turned around and drove back to Trusesti to meet her student. Together they went to this sheep shelter. While the young man was waiting for Anca, he also talked to his parents who agreed to adopt 3 of these 6 puppies. Anca will of course control these 3 puppies with their new family. Anca took the remaining 3 puppies (3 girls) home with her. She estimated the age of the little furry noses to be about 6 weeks. Actually still too young to be without a mother. Anca will do her best to make sure these little ones will survive.to be without a mother. Anca will do her best to make sure these little ones survive.

Far away from the next town or village was this dilapidated, long abandoned house, in the middle of nowhere. A clue prompted Anca to look there for a small family of dogs.

At first Anca saw a dog at a "safe" distance from her, but close to a small annex/ pantry. The dog watched Anca very closely but did not come closer. So Anca put out wet food, which the dog accepted. This was probably the mum of the 3 little puppies Anca found in this pantry.  Of course, these 3 little furry noses got a big portion of wet food. As the little ones were very friendly and open-minded, Anca was able to give them a spot-on against parasites straight away.

Unfortunately, this is all Anca can do to help this little family at the moment. The puppies are still too small to manage without their mum and their mum was too shy to take them all with her. So Anca will be visiting them regularly to help further with supplementary food. As soon as the little ones are old enough, they will move in with Anca. And maybe someday the mummy female will trust Anca so she can be neutered to stop having any more offspring.

Botosani - behind every block of flats there is at least one rubbish dump where residents can dispose of their household waste. And unfortunately, not only rubbish is thrown away there. Most of these rubbish dumps consist of 3 to 5 containers. A lot of rubbish also lies next to them.

A small dog child was sitting frightened under a rubbish container at some rubbish dump. Her fur was wet and dirty. The puppy girl was trembling all over her body and not only out of fear, but she was also very cold. And she was soooo hungry.

An animal-loving friend of Anca's was passing a rubbish tip on her way home from work. As she walked by, she noticed something white scurrying under a container. She looked under this container and looked into a sad, frightened pair of eyes. Without resistance, the puppy allowed itself to be pulled out from under the container. The little one was shaking so badly that Aca's friend packed the little puppy under her jacket and hurried home. When they arrived home, they had to take a warm shower. Then she was lovingly rubbed dry. And then, of course, came the delicious wet food.

Now Birdy is with Anca and continues to be nursed. Soon she will need her vital vaccination.
You are welcome to support Anca with the vaccination costs.
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5 adult dogs (3 females, 2 males) and puppies, of different ages, need help.

Someone told Anca about a place on the outskirts of Trusesti, a farm with cows and pigs, where several dogs would live. At some point, these furry noses were probably abandoned there and kept having babies.

Anca phoned to get more information about the exact location of this farm. Eventually she managed to speak to the owner of the farm. Anca offered to visit him and help if necessary. The farmer told Anca that he kept finding dead puppies on his farm, but he didn't really know what to do. It was very likely that the puppies, not vaccinated of course, had died of parvovirus or distemper.

The next day Anca drove to this farm and there were waiting for her, 3 females, 2 males and about 6 to 10 puppies/young dogs. The furry noses were suspicious, hesitant and did not get very close to Anca. Some puppies and young dogs stayed at a "safe" distance from Anca and looked at everything closely.

Something bad happened to a small female at the end of February. She still managed to drag herself onto the grounds of a small school.

A friend of Anca's works at this school in a small village near Trusesti. Between classes, this friend went outside for a smoke break and found a small dog lying in the grass. When she went closer, the dog did not run away and then she saw why. The little dog had an open fracture on its left front leg.

What should she do now? It was a small female. How could she help this dog? She remembered Anca and made a phone call. Anca had advised her friend to take the female to a vet immediately. That is what happened. We don't know how this injury happened. Was the little female kicked by someone or did she have a car accident? We will never know. The only thing that matters now is that the little female gets help.

A few years ago, an animal-loving girl from Botosani adopted a cat from Anca. The velvet paw is doing very well with her. The girl also feeds street cats at a larger rubbish dump.

In mid-February, when the girl was feeding "her" street cats again, she discovered a plastic bag in which something was moving. She opened it to reveal 4 young puppies. These little furry noses were still quite lively, so one can assume that they had been "thrown away" here only a short time before.

The little ones were very lucky to have been found, because the nights were very, very cold at this time of year. It hardly got warmer during the day either, so the puppies would not have survived for long.

The girl remembered Anca and asked for help for these 4 fur babies. Of course Anca took in the 4 puppies. There were 3 puppy boys and 1 puppy girl. As it turned out later, the 3 boys had their tails cut off. The girl is unharmed. Why people do this to animals, and babies at that, remains incomprehensible to us and should be punished.

Now the 4 furry noses are with Anca, being nursed and waiting for their first vaccination.

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It was late that afternoon, Anca was on her way to one of her foster homes to drop off cat food. This time, however, she took a different route than usual. The roads are narrow and often quite bumpy. Anca was driving slowly and as she passed, she saw a small to medium sized dog on a short chain in a garden. Knowing a couple lived there, mostly alcoholics, Anca stopped to take a closer look at the dog.

It was a female, very, very thin and full of vermin. There was no hut for her there, just an old dirty pot with nothing in it. There was no water, no food. Anca gave the female some dry food, which she devoured immediately. And then the owner came around the corner. Drunk. Anca talked to him and found out that the female's name was Viorica and that he didn't really want a dog. So Anca took the chain off Viorica's neck, took her in her arms and brought her to her car.

Now Viorica is with Anca and is being cared for. She still has to gain a few kilos before Viorica can be neutered and then we will try to find a nice home for her.

On 9 January, the new school year started in Romania, so it was also the first working day for Anca at the high school in Trusesti.

By chance, Anca looked out of the window during one of her lessons and saw something white squatting on the curb. Right by the entrance gate to the schoolyard. She wasn't sure what it was. A bag or a puppy dog or cat?

When her lesson ended, Anca rushed outside to this white something and it was a little puppy girl. Dejected and hopeless, the furry little thing squatted by the curb. Schoolchildren gave the puppy girl small crumbs of bread to eat. The puppy girl was shivering because it was very cold. Anca took it and needed to get the little one into her car. A blanket and some food was all Anca could do at that moment, because her working day was not over yet.

Later in the afternoon, when Anca came home, the little puppy girl was given something tasty and nutritious to eat and a soft, warm place in Anca's quarantine station.

By chance, Anca heard lively puppy noises at a dilapidated house on the outskirts of Trusesti. Actually, the reason why Anca went to the area was that she was told that a small dog had been abandoned there.

Anca did not find this little dog, but she did find a female with her 10 puppies. These puppies were about 3 weeks old. They were much too young to grow up without a mother. And the mama-female was very shy. When she noticed Anca, the mama-female disappeared on the spot and watched everything from a safe distance.

Anca will always go here to this dilapidated house and leave food for the female there and who knows, maybe the female will trust after all.

It was cold that day.
Botosani centre - a small rubbish dump - only 2 containers directly on a small backyard path. 4 puppies - only a few weeks old - sat tightly packed together. They were shivering from the cold. Passers-by walked past them. No one saw them. No one saw their distress.

A young man just wanted to dispose of his household rubbish and then hurry back to his warm flat. But then he saw these 4 furry noses squatting on the kerb. Dangerously close to the path where cars were also parked. He took pity on these little puppies, put them in a box and took them to his car. In the meantime, he made a phone call.

The young man is a colleague of Anca's and asked her for help for these 4 furry noses. There were 3 girls and 1 boy. Of course Anca agreed to take in these 4 furry noses. We hope that the 4 puppies are still strong enough and will survive.