The tourist country Romania

Romania has many magnificent tourist attractions like Peles Castle, Pelisor Castle, Dracula’s Castle (Bran Castle), the Carphatian Mountains, the fortified churches of Transylvania, the Danube Delta, The UNESCO churches of Bucovina and Maramures, Bucharest, Sibiu, the Dacian Citadels, Cluj-Napoca, the City of Sighisoara, Timisoara, Mamaia and Brasov.

Romania  has also many secrets that very few tourists know about. Before you decide to visit Romania as a tourist, please take a moment to find out whether this is a country whose economy and values you want to support. They way innocent and defenseless beings are treated tells a lot about a society. These news stories give you some information on how animals are treated in Romania.

Please note that many of the images in the articles are very graphic.

NEWS FROM ROMANIA

11 May 2015, Express
In Romania stray dogs are commonly run over, shot, poisoned, set on fire or beaten to death, or mutilated and left to die a slow and horrifying death. If the dogs are caught by the dog catchers they are taken to public shelters. The dog catchers use very violent methods when catching the dogs, and the dogs are often badly injured. In the public shelters the dogs are kept in horrific conditions, often without food or water, severely injured and left to die slowly of their injuries, disease or starvation. Euthanasia is not conducted using humane practices, but with cheap and painful methods.
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25 January 2015, The Daily Mail
The Romanian public dog pounds are real concentration camps, where the dogs are forced to eat each other to stay alive. The dogs live in horrendous circumstances, starving and sick. Romanians profit from the suffering of the dogs, and don’t want to solve the problem in a humane and permanent way.
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23 July 2014, New Internationalist Magazine
With the ”Killing Law” 26,000 stray dogs have been caught in Bucharest to be killed. The catching and killing of dogs is a multi-million dollar business in Romania.
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11 December 2013, International Business Times
Romanian stray dogs are tortured and killed on the streets: Bludgeoned, stabbed, poisoned, shot.
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