On Monday 7 May the Italian Minister of Financial has finally published the information about 5X1000 edition 2010, a measure which allows all Citizen to devolve part of income taxes to their favourite association.
That was a great surprise for Save the Dogs to know our association had a boom of preferences.
In 2009 we had been chosen by 2924 people and in 2010 STD has reached 4680 preferences, so more than 60 % of the past year. The increase of funds was not proportional to the one for preferences, a demonstration that Italian salaries are downing and live in suffer.
STD will get 129.700 eur against the 105.000 of year 2009, about 23% more.
Another encouraging information is the one which refers to the position of Save the Dogs in the general chart of Onlus and Organisations: there are only 200 Italian organisations which gained more than 100.000 EUR and STD is at the 157° place on  32.000 institutions accredited for 5×1000. These statistics, if we think about the young life of the association (officially born in Italy in 2005) make us proud of the job done in these years from the headquarter in Milan and also thankful to the thousands Italians collaborators who trust us.
We don’t know when these funds will be delivered but STD can accede to a bank credit if these funds will be useful to do our activities in Romania .
The funds of 5×1000 – we’ll keep you informed about their use, as we have already done for edition of 2008- will be used to cover some costs for the working of our structures in Romania and first of all to buy drugs and for delivery of medical health from Italy.

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A few weeks before the inauguration of the new shelter in Cernavoda, STD
launched through the site www.footprintsofjoy.eu the third and final phase of the project: the fundraising to build a model veterinary clinic for dogs and cats.

The veterinary hospital we have designed is intended to be “stray dog-friendly”. A 336 square meters central body and five outdoor areas (300 square meters), extending on corridors, in order to shelter the different kinds of animals passing through our organization: cats, puppies, dogs that will be set free, those suffering for contagious pathologies, and those that will be adopted.

Parts of the raw material required for the North American styled prefabricate building will come from Canada. While the load-bearing structure is made of wood, the external coating will consist of insulating boards. The hospital will be equipped with large windows (also in the in-patient wards), in such a way to make use of the natural light as much as possible, while heating will be positioned under floor, and will probably exploit alternative energy systems. We have foreseen three different accesses: one for those who take their pets to the clinic privately, another for stray dogs attended by our operators, and the last one for STD employees, who will final have the opportunity to work together in a unique location.
The total cost for building this hospital is 250.000 euros.

Let’s build together the new STD veterinary hospital! You can give your contribution to the project by making a donation or supporting one of the 47 kennel runs to the value of 500, 800, 1.000 or 1.500 euros. A plate placed in each corridor will mention the supporter’s name. Visit the fund-raising special webpage on www.footprintsofjoy.eu.

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This is how we find her, after being hit by a car in Medgidia. The dog was brought to our veterinary center where veterinary Alina Vasile immediately removed the eye with an emergency surgery. Thank goodness the poor dog (named Cindy) has not suffered further damage and – apart from the loss of the eye she will have a normal life. The little four legged will be included in one of our adoption programs as soon as possible.

If you wish to contribute to her care and to help us covering expenses incurred for the operation, you can make a donation through the current accounts of the association or by credit card via Pay Pal.

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It happens almost every day that dogs in all sizes and age are abandoned at our Cernavoda shelter. Unfortunately because of the ignorance of people, in many cases they are not “placed in security” (like paradoxically the puppy left in the sack that you can see in the photos below), but are literally thrown in the enclosures of the shelter where the poor beasties are obviously attacked by groups of dogs which live there.
Many of these episodes end tragically, which is what happened to a puppy shown in the photo album having chosen not to publish them on the Home page. The little one that was with him came out better: Viola (in the photo above) had fractures but she is pulling through and we hope she can leave for Sweden as soon as possible. Even the puppy in the sack, a young quadruped and simply adorable, will soon be inserted into the international adoption project. Despite that Save the Dogs sterilizes free of charge 2.750 animals between Cernavoda and Medgidia every year, many people unfortunately still do not gather our message and cause unnecessary suffering to these animals, even when having an alternative at hand.
Decades are needed to change this mentality and we hope to begin as soon as possible an educational project in Cernavoda public schools parallel to that of Medgidia.

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