The killing of thousands of abandoned dogs in Romania takes place since 2001 based on a national law, regularly approved by the Romanian Parliament.<\/p>\n
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The existence of this law is possible because the EU never approved a Directive to prevent EU member states from killing healthy animals as a method to control the dog and cat population<\/strong>. In fact, there is no legislation whatsoever in Europe concerning pets, apart from some rules for intra and extra States movements.<\/p>\n The latter finds it difficult to arrive because pet animals have always been considered a topic relevant to the culture and traditions of each country<\/strong> and not a topic of economic and health relevance. This is why Brussels’ response to millions of signatures and letters sent during the past asking to stop massacres like the Romanian one has always been: “This is not a matter for which we are competent”.<\/p>\n The use of euthanasia<\/strong> (even if in Romania we should rather talk about killing) as a tool to contain the canine and feline population<\/strong> is unfortunately also widespread among other European countries like the UK, France, most regions of Spain, Estonia, Ireland and Belgium.<\/p>\n We think that there has been an underestimation of the problem given the explosion of the puppy trade phenomena<\/strong> which has enormous consequences, while the stray dogs population<\/strong> itself (where it is endemic, as in Romania) potentially carries risks to public health that cannot be ignored by institutions, with significant social and sanitary costs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.savethedogs.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/EU_DCA_logo_colour.jpg\"){kind=logo}
\u200bFor a long time a patient lobbying work of many associations has pressed the Parliament and the European Commission to develop a legal framework<\/strong> with guidelines for member countries in order to guarantee greater protection for EU dogs and cats.<\/p>\n
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