Today is one of the four days when bloggers write posts supporting causes and organisations that aim to help animals. The project is called Blog the Change for Animals and was started by the Be the Change for Animals site. You will also find a list of links to everyone's posts there.
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Adoptii Caini (= Adopt a Dog) and Adoptii Pisici (= Adopt a Cat) are sister sites that represent databases of adoptable dogs and cats in Romania.
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You probably know Petfinder, which is a similar site with a database of adoptable animals in the USA. You can make some parallels between this site and the Romanian ones.
The two Romanian sites are a program created and maintained by volunteers throughout Romania. They are associated with Protectia Animalelor (= Animal Protection) to raise awareness of animals that need a home. They also have a lot of information about other animal care organisations in our country, shelters, vets and even pet shops and dog trainers.
They also create a community of volunteers, who help document the database and take pictures, and other animal lovers. People can share their opinions of a certain shelter or vet and post classifieds about their missing pet.
What is more important, in my opinion, is that they also have information about our famous stray dogs and cats (also see my On the streets post) posted by people who want to try to find homes for them. I've said it before, this is a serious problem in our country.
I hope this post will help those animals even the tiniest bit and that more people will adopt pets. Forget that they chew your furniture or pee on your rugs or leave hair on your clothes. Pets bring a little piece of living nature into our homes and we will have a sweet, loving friend.
Please adopt pets. If you are from Romania, now you know where to start looking.
What a great post.
ReplyDeleteNubbin wiggles,
Oskar
What a wonderful cause to promote! Thanks for helping homeless pets find their forever home.
ReplyDeleteThank you for reporting on what is going on in another country so eloquently. You never know who is reading -- and it's nice to recognize people who are working hard for a good cause.
ReplyDeleteWoof! Woof! Golden Thanks for this information.
ReplyDeleteI'm Sugar visiting you from SPBH. Happy BLOG HOP Weekend. Lots of Golden Woofs, Sugar
We were in Croatia last fall and saw a lot of dog abandonment. I think it's wonderful that Romania is raising awareness in their country to the plight of our furry friends. Thanks for posting!
ReplyDeleteSage's Mom
Thanks for sharing this! I've really loved reading about the movements/programs happening across the globe... especially in countries that have a high rate of stray dogs!
ReplyDeleteIt's great to hear about good works and positive things being done for animals, no matter what country! This is a wonderful post. Hope the problem with street dogs lessens and the dogs find loving homes.
ReplyDeleteGreat cause to post about!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great effort - thanks for sharing it with us! I really like that there is a community of volunteers who put together information for people to share - all of those kind of cooperative efforts add up to make the change for animals!
ReplyDelete-Chandra at Daley's Dog Years