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Today wednesday was the day i planned to go at Liliana’s house and together with my colleague Dr Corbu + a team of volunteers to help clean the place,  spay and neuter all the dogs and also disinfect the yard so that the dogs will not pick up ticks and fleas.

Yesterday i spoke with Liliana on the phone and i got the message that she declines my offer of help because the weather was too hot and said something about september october. I saw the place and there is shade enough for the dogs to recover.We are experienced with working in this kind of situations and places. I explained her that everything was gonna be alright yet she declined receiving us there. The volunteers explained me they have been trying to help her since 2006 and the same time they got a negative feedback from her.

Her dogs are in terrible condition: full of mange demodex fleas and ticks. There are litters of pups that die because the moms do not have enough milk  and antibodies and can not feed them properly. Now i have to consider the fact that she abuses her dogs  and preventing us to go there is a cruelty deed against her animals.  I am worried and i think that maybe we  should have a tribunal order and go there help the animals. What do you think about this?

I found out about Liliana  during the April 2010 Spayathon in Bucharest. A person who kept bringing dogs to be sterilised told us about her.  ancy, the president of  Romania Animal Rescue promised help with treatments and sterilisations of dogs on site. The other days I visited the place she lives.  A GIA volunteer joined me and we took pictures of the house. It is like entering the wonderland but a sad one.

The yard is not taken care of, it is like a little mix of jugle and rubish. Dogs came barking to us but none tried.  Liliana has been living there for two years since she had to flee from her home in Bucharest together with her 18 dogs. She had many problems with her neighbours who tried to poison all her dogs because they were too noisy. She appears as a warm hearted woman that does not ask  much from the world : just her dogs to be happy and healthy. She accepted to talk to us  which was not the case with other people visiting her.  She said that she lived without electriciy and that now she has to carry water from a cemetary across the street because her water well bucket was damaged. She suffers from Diabetes and her legs are affected by trombosis. She asked for help and we are willing to provide help for her. A new water bucket was mandatory and urgent  and this week we plan to ge there with   medical team and volunteers to clean the place .

 I will keep you posted