Your vote for dogs, mr. President!

The Spanish Prime Minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, is known to oppose bullfighting.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy  suggested that, if elected president, he might impose new restrictions on La Corrida. He said that a "possible way forward" would be to have bull-fighting festivals without the public slaughter of animals.
That's why we would like to know the opinion of the Romanian President regarding this issue, how Romania should solve the stray dogs problem. 

The stray dogs are killed by thousands in most Romanian cities, even if the law bans the euthanasia of healthy animals. No official actions are taken in support of sterilisation of pet dogs, yard dogs, stray dogs, identification, registration, even if the law, as it is now, enables authorities to do that.  The public budgets are used for dog impounding &  killing - even if the name is different.

The European Convention for the Protection of pet animals  (the Romanian Law 60/2004) recommends the reduction of numbers of stray animals by:
- providing for dogs and cats to be permanently identified by some appropriate means (....) as well as  recording the numbers in a register together with the names and addresses of their owners;

- reducing the unplanned breeding of dogs and cats by promoting the neutering of these animals;

http://conventions.coe.int/treaty/en/Treaties/Word/125.doc

The scale of animal abandonment - Video: 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px__Uux895w

In the absence of any measures to control the cause: the uncontrolled and unwanted dog and cat breeding, thousands of dogs and cats are born, abandoned, and unnecessarily killed and die every year.

Despite the evidences, the authorities deny the cruelty in the public dogpounds. For instance the dog killing is disguised behind a mortality rate as high as 40%, the other 60% being euthanized as 'incurable'.
On impounding, all healthy dogs get incurable diseases! 

Despite the millions of euro spent of dog killing, the stray dogs problem hasn't been solved yet.

Taxpayers' money are wasted on dog killing. Dog killing has become a profitable business for many interests connected with the local administrations. Why would they lose this  business - especially in these hard days?

The project providing the mandatory spay/neuter, identification, registration, passed by the Senate in December 2007, has been blocked by the Chamber of Deputies since January 2008.

http://www.cdep.ro/pls/proiecte/upl_pck.proiect?idp=9033

In November 2009 the Senate rejected the project L448/2009, i.e., the euthanasia of street dogs. http://webapp.senat.ro/sergiusenat.proiect.asp?cod=14286&pos=0&NR=L448&AN=2009

Yet the supporters of mass killing of dogs don't give up!  

According to a recent poll published by the British Foundation Dogs Trust, only 1 of 10 Romanians considers the euthanasia as solution:

http://www.evz.ro/detalii/stiri/romanii-de-partea-cainilor-894549.html

We know that many voices use the 'recession' argument now to ask the mass killing of dogs, again.
There will be money for killing, but never for spaying!

This is the easiest way to mask the indifference of Romanian authorities toward the citizens, and the failure to address a simple problem.

Kindly, mr. President, please let us know your opinion, on what measures should be taken to solve this so much debated problem.

Please urge the approval by the Chamber of Deputies of the law on mandatory spay, return, identification, registration - PL X 912.

We want to be assured that the last signature on this law is in good hands!

Sponsors:
Alianta Romana pentru Protectia si Drepturile Animalelor (ARPDA ) International Coalition for Animal Rights (I.C.A.R. ) 
ANIMCORD