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The infrastructure to bring the animals to remote clinics on bad roads leaves a lot to be desired. First we need a building where some dogs can live. A space for castrations is to be created there. Why not neuter with a castration mobile on site? There is a great risk that the bitch will pull the strings until the 3rd day and then she could get an ugly wound. We want to keep them under control for at least 4 days.
On the video you can see the way from the clinic to the kennels. With such a project there must of course also be a few spacious kennels, and this is roughly what we imagine in the future. it should also be a house on the property so that there is always someone with the dogs. The sanctuary dogs will then live there.
08/26/2019
Lots of bitches in heat
the word "hanging" got a completely new meaning for me for the first time. Shortly before recording this video, the malamut hybrid seen at the beginning mated with a Bichon Frisee hybrid. Everyone knows that the size difference is risky for the bitch. Scarce 30 cm under 60 cm
When a Dachshund mix lady came by, I took the opportunity to explain to the residents how important castrations are. For the Dachshund lady we have the approval for castration. We can't save the world, but maybe we can do a little better?
29.06.2019 Fortune was with us. Another tornado passed us and a tree landed behind my car. Again we had more luck than the animal shelters in the area! It is a terrible catastrophe for smaller private persons, whose harvest and sometimes even roads in front of the door are destroyed.
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May 31, 2019
Conclusion after 21 days at the shelter:
This baby was also given away, 5 I caught in the forest, 4 we refused at the gate, 3 new adult dogs, 3 that are still wandering around the shelter and are not caught and 1 was run over directly. Well, and then a puppy that I reanimated until 1:00 am, took a hot water bottle and its fleas with me to bed, set the alarm clock four hours later and yet too late ... calculate how much money and Energy these dogs all cost - until they are de-louse, vaccinated, fed, neutered etc. and still need new kennels. How far should we grow there? Please help to neuter the dogs at home and to do proper education.
This baby was also given away, 5 I caught in the forest, 4 we refused at the gate, 3 new adult dogs, 3 that are still wandering around the shelter and are not caught and 1 was run over directly. Well, and then a puppy that I reanimated until 1:00 am, took a hot water bottle and its fleas with me to bed, set the alarm clock four hours later and yet too late ... calculate how much money and Energy these dogs all cost - until they are de-louse, vaccinated, fed, neutered etc. and still need new kennels. How far should we grow there? Please help to neuter the dogs at home and to do proper education.
30.05.2019 What is the mission?
Right, sustainable animal welfare in Romania. In the county of Bihor alone, several million euros have already been invested from Western Europe. Why are there still countless unneutered dogs, although even the municipal animal catchers have been actively helping for 5 years now?
When the former private shelter in Oradea was converted into a municipal killing station in 2012, I was the only person allowed in for a long time. I started desperately trying to get some dogs out of this oppressive camp until I realized at some point that I was indirectly contributing to dogs being tortured and that it was a bottomless pit. I began to think about how I could help the dogs more sensibly.
We've got to save them before they're in a sling! Where do they come from anyway, all the new arrivals in town? They come from surrounding villages of the rural population without internet, for whom dogs are farm animals. There they guard farms and if they don't bark at every intruder, are too old for the job, have too many parasites or eat their own chickens, they are simply not fed and chased away. Not to mention the puppies...
I made another mistake, got emotionally carried away to want to save an animal shelter, just because there are still some unmediated dogs there with whom I am personally connected. So I got back into this spiral of looking after my own and newly abandoned dogs for 20 hours a day, finding a home for them and cleaning puppy poop. See photo: for a whole day I was sitting in the woods to catch these puppies abandoned in front of the shelter and I can't know if I have them all (it makes you crazy)...
We actually (for the time being) leave the shelter to the city, which has also lost patience and has signed a contract with the killing station of Oradea. I don't want to blame them, because they have been financially involved for years and yet there are still many uncastrated bitches.
I don't even try to change their minds, because running an animal shelter means that not enough help can be given at the origin and finally only those dogs are castrated that we don't even want to have in the first place.
The already presented dogs
are very close to my heart and we will continue to care for them, but from the outside. As soon as they have found godparents who want to offer them a nice life, they will come to a place of grace, so that they will be saved from the stressful everyday life of the shelter with regular new arrivals.
We dare to make a new start, and this in the villages around Oradea! With a castration project there will always be dogs that need to be caught, but I have noticed that the country people welcome you open-heartedly and you can also talk to them for the most part, so that exactly these potentially abandoned dogs are allowed to stay there until the mediation and of course are castrated and marked.
That's what I call education, and that's where we come in.
The road will be stony and hard, literally on Romanian roads, but the road is also the destination, so that it remains a mission. The first stone has been rolled out, because I have been staying with a hospitable family for a few days, who already asked me last year for help for their dogs. Word is gradually spreading about what I am planning and the first calls for help have arrived.
What we need now is a donated four-wheel drive jeep to collect the dogs and regular payments for accommodation with electricity and hot water. Castrations in a clinic in Oradea normally cost 50 € upwards! We could find an animal-loving doctor who only charges us 30 €.
We also need a suitable house with a large plot of land where helpers and I can stay overnight. There we will set up a hygienic room, so that a veterinarian can come and neuter them at a reasonable price. That would be much cheaper and the goal is to have our own veterinarian one day...
I hope that more followers will be found who are willing to give us a fixed amount each month. So to speak a house sponsorship or as a supporting member.
I know that it is easier to get money for the cute puppies on the photo, but please note that they are in a cage, because there are hardly any kennels free in any Romanian shelter! In addition, there is the danger of infection and high mortality rate when they are abandoned in front of shelters at the age of usually only 4 weeks.
Our project is a mission and I want to find her mother, because otherwise in six months I will be sitting in the rain again for a whole day to capture her sisters...
Your Sophie Bauer
The Hundemission e.V.
is committed in Romania to reduce the population of street animals. For this we have to castrate continuously and above all we have to return the dogs to their feeding places in a marked way.
Therefore we founded the Hundemission e.V.
to be able to carry out castration actions. We do educational work, so that the word gets around that we do sustainable animal protection. The population is very grateful for this.
The success of other organisations is clearly visible on the streets in the surrounding area, but there are still too many uncastrated bitches, especially outside the cities. Who wants to drive their car on bad roads for miles to fetch the dogs?
The project should be a pioneer in convincing not only the population, but also local animal welfare activists in the country, who out of helplessness almost all tend to hoard dogs. They are too busy with this to even care about the cause of the dog flood.
Also in Romania there are reasons to give away dogs, which cannot be averted. Not only relocation, separations, financial hardships, but recently also increasingly the fact that many Romanians go to work for three months in Germany, require the catching of the animals in need.
For those who cannot be helped, we would like to create a paradisiacal life in a pack with lots of freedom. We gladly hand over especially friendly dogs to clubs or animal shelters in Germany, which have a permission (Traces). Years of engagement in animal protection and dog expertise make our descriptions of the dogs reliable.
Chairwoman Sophie Bauer is a qualified dog trainer, has been a foster home for over 10 years, especially for anxious and traumatized Romanians and has lived in Romania for over a year with about 600 dogs living freely. She knows not only the behaviour of the dogs in Romania and Germany, but also the country and its people.
We do not want to send dogs in droves to Germany, but our goal is to create a well organized castration project in Romania.
Please help, so that Hundemission e.V.
can support the dear stray dogs and enables us to help our fellow countrymen who cannot afford castrations of their animals.
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