All the dogs at Maria’s and Adrian’s shelter are from the street, dumped dogs that may have previously had a home where the owners did not want them anymore and have now dumped them, dogs that have gone missing, dogs that have run away or dogs that are born wild outside as nobody cares for neutralization. The dogs do not live in any way under the controlled and registered conditions as we see in Denmark. Romania State-employed dogcatchers capture many dogs. There they are put into death shelters to end their life, if not rescued by Maria and Adrian.

If they are not killed by humans, they are damned to a life in captivity which is often ends in deathly dog bitings because of hunger and stress.

The dog catchers are paid from the government to catch the dogs. Maria and Adrian picks up the dogs from the kills shelter like Alexandria that are 4 hours drive away, where they often kill them in brutal ways.

In Romania the dogs has no value and regarded like pests animals like rats and therefore they are caught and placed in these very unkind cold and dirty  the death shelters where the dogs  just wait  for their life to end. One can compare it to the death-row in prisons. They get very little food and it is the strongest dog that survives (until they are either killed or die by themselves from starvation or illness). The weak ones therefore do not have a chance. Maria and Adrian feeds the dogs in  these death shelters as much as possible, but they are not always allowed to get in side.

Maria and Adrian do not always pay to get the dogs out, they can pick them up on certain days, but they must have the space for them. It depends  which shelters they pick up the dogs from. But some dogs they have to go really far to get the right to help and take out. For example, they have contacted the local mayor several times to get the right to pick up a dog.

Despite the fact that Maria and Adrian  for several years have made sure to neutralize dogs for free and  thus the death shelters are filled to the top by dog-catchers, it may seem like an endless stream of dogs.


You can find on this link from Maria’s facebook page the dogs from the various death shelters https://www.facebook.com/MaRRia.Cristina/media_set?set=a.10210967145306882&type=3

Maria and Adrian do not make much money from helping all these dogs. They have dedicated their life to it and spends 24 hours a day on the dogs. If the dogs are so poorly prepared that they have to go to the vet when taken out of the shelters, it naturally costs money and therefore they needs financial support to be able to help all these dogs. You can support this work with a monthly amount or with fixed donations in other ways.

In March 2020, we received an update that all sales of dog food stopped in Romania due to Corona and therefore our German partner tried to get some food into the country for Maria and Adrian. In August, the country reopened, but Maria and Adrian are constantly running out of food, as there are many, many dogs to feed and it all depends on our support for her. Especially since Coronas breakout Maria and Adrian are completely on their own with all the hard work as no one from her supporters can travel to Romania to help her.

Fortunately, Maria and Adrian has loyal volunteering supporters in Denmark, Sweden, Beligum  but also in Germany, who help daily as best they can also during Corona.