Bucharest Stray Dogs

Bucharest’s Stray Dogs: Mapped

by Craig Turp May 4, 2012 Bucharest

 Excellent idea. The PDL, which despite having handicapped itself by nominating Silviu Prigoana as its candidate for mayor of Bucharest, has launched this website, called ‘Oprescu’s Bucharest,’ which aims to map all of the city’s dangerous packs of stray dogs. It also offers practical advice (in Romanian) on how to avoid being bitten, as well [...]

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Bucharest Stray Dogs Latest: Phanariots, not Ceausescu, to blame

by Craig Turp May 3, 2012 Bucharest

 Bucharest’s mayor, Sorin Oprescu, today confirmed what we at Bucharest Life have long been saying: that Nicolae Ceausescu is not to blame for Bucharest’s stray dog problem. No, according to Oprescu (who faces an election in a month’s time), it is the Phanariots we should blame. (In brief, the Phanariots were Turkish-appointed Greeks who ruled [...]

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Political Animals

by Craig Turp December 6, 2011 Bucharest

 So it’s official. The ruling Democratic Liberal Party (PDL) has made Bucharest‘s stray dogs a political issue. Indeed, the mutts could well become one of the main issues of next year’s local elections. As we wrote about a week or so ago, the PDL has for a while been collecting signatures in order to force [...]

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Stray Dogs: The Referendum

by Craig Turp November 16, 2011 Bucharest

 Members of Romania’s ruling Democratic-Liberal Party (PDL) are currently collecting signatures around Bucharest in order to force a local referendum on the stray dog issue. Without going into the whole dog argument again, we do think that a referendum is a good idea, no? Let the people of Bucharest decide how the problem should be [...]

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Why mass killing will not solve Romania’s street dog problem

by David Newall March 16, 2011 Bucharest

 David Newall of Romanian Animal Welfare Coalition (RAWC) puts forward the case for neutering, education and … street cleaning You may assume that, speaking on behalf of an animal welfare organisation, I’m bound to take the ‘softy’ route and condemn legislation permitting municipalities to kill street dogs en masse. And you’d be right. Because the [...]

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Bucharest’s stray dog problem has nothing to do with Nicolae Ceausescu

by Craig Turp March 11, 2011 Bucharest

 We come in peace. Whatever side of the barricades you find yourself on in the the Bucharest stray dog debate, can we suggest that we all decide to agree on the fact that the stray dog problem – like so many others for which he gets the blame in contemporary Romania – has nothing whatsoever [...]

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Dogs in parliament

by Craig Turp March 8, 2011 Bucharest

 Well, not quite dogs in parliament, but today in Romania’s lower house a vote on the never-ending matter of Romania’s stray dogs should see local councils once again have the power to deal with the stray dog problem as they – and they alone – see fit. This will include the right to kill them. [...]

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