Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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🔍 Undercover investigation in Romanian public shelters unveils gruesome conditions 🇷🇴
🐶 Dogs eating faeces. 🪣 Water bowls frozen while animals are exposed to sub-zero temperatures. ❄️ Dogs suffering from untreated wounds. These are just some of the findings in public shelters in Romania from an undercover investigation that was commissioned by FOUR PAWS.

In January, as part of a nationwide investigation we visited nine public shelters across the country. What we found was nothing short of alarming and deeply unsettling. 🛑 Some of the shelters did not meet even the most basic standards of animal welfare.
What the investigators witnessed was horrifying: it seems common for dogs to attack each other out of desperation, sometimes even killing one another. Tragically, these are not the only casualties—many more dogs die due to neglect. To illustrate this with a particularly shocking statistic: the Brăila City shelter had a death rate of 40% in 2024. ❌ Nearly every second dog that arrived there did not make it out alive.

We could go on with countless tragic details from the investigations: dogs that were severely underweight, deprived of food and even access to water was limited as buckets were either frozen or empty. 🥣 We encountered a dog that had bitten off parts of his own tail, out of pure distress. And all this extreme animal neglect is funded by the tax-payers, as the government allocates millions of euros in these facilities. 💰

Romania’s current animal welfare laws and shelter system are failing both the animals and the citizens who fund them. Mass-sheltering and killing must stop! We are calling on the Romanian government to implement a comprehensive, humane nationwide CNVR (Catch–Neuter–Vaccinate–Return) programme to put an end to this suffering.

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