The emotional testimony of the veterinarian who tranquilized the dogs from the tragedy at Lac Morii

Veterinarian Ovidiu Roșu from the ARCA (Animal Rescue and Care) Association, who coordinated the team of people who, after the tragedy at Lacul Morii, went in search of the dogs that killed Ana Oroș, says that the only solution still remains sterilization animals with and without owner.

The doctor states, in a message posted on Facebook, that the sterilization of stray and stray dogs and cats must be the first and most important weapon with which we must fight to prevent suffering of any kind.

We reproduce in full the message “for animal lovers” posted by the veterinarian who, after the tragedy at Lac Morii, went there to capture the dogs:

• “Yes, the last few days have been terrible. A man died from a pack of dogs in the middle of a field, and a bunch of other people, led by me, ran to catch those dogs.
• In the first 2 days after the misfortune, I ran and coordinated over 50 people (ASPA Bucharest, Gendarmerie and Police), in rain, frost, mud, canals, vegetation, bushes, ruins, garbage, from morning to night, on a surface on which my phone calculated that approximately 55 kilometers were covered per step.
• I didn’t want this. I had to do this. Technically I would have done it totally differently when capturing the dogs. Quietly, without commotion, without other people, in a maximum of 2-3 people. But how could anyone imagine that such a thing would have been possible, when dozens of television stations and state organs were present and desperate for “results”.
• Together with two other colleagues with tranquilizer guns we managed to safely put to sleep 7 dogs from those we believe attacked the person.
• Each dog was sampled by the Police and all the dogs woke up and were transferred to the Bragadiru shelter. Alive, unbruised, unharmed! I guarantee you that.
• There are a few more to capture, but they too will be captured eventually.
• Why did I just do that, you might ask? Why didn’t I just stay at home, after already a whole week of running after dogs during several sterilization campaigns in the country? Why did I risk compromising my “reputation” in such a misfortune?
• “Answers” to these questions have already started to flow from all sides. That I went to the other side for money, that I play the ASPA dirty games, that political interests and other things that I didn’t even know I could cling to. Yes…
• I would like to be able to live with myself in misery, intrigues and for money. It would be so simple and easy for me in the society we have built. However, let me tell you why I VOLUNTARILY got myself into this misery.
• Because on Saturday at 10 o’clock the deputy head of ASPA, a woman in her 8th month of pregnancy, her voice shaking and hiccups, asked for my help to respond as best we can to a misfortune and what can compromise all change in well spent in recent years with the animals in Bucharest.
• Because by the nature of my profession I have been run over and bitten dozens of times by groups of territorial dogs and I KNOW it is not their fault or the other gentle dogs in this country who will suffer from this incident. That’s the nature of dogs that have to survive in the fields.
• They don’t attack because they want to attack, they attack because they are trying to protect something. In this case a few chicks and a food source – a donkey carcass left to rot and/or be eaten.
• I don’t think it’s the fault of the bitten man, nor the biting animals. I think it’s an unfortunate amount of terrible happenings that, on some level, are almost impossible to predict and stop.
• And because I lived intensely and viscerally the experience of the end of 2013, when due to an incident that led to the death of a child, to enormous social and media pressure, political decisions were made that led to the death and torment of tens of thousands of animals both in Bucharest and throughout the country. I repeat! I volunteered to help.
• Without any remuneration or promises of advancement on any social scale. Only at the risk of compromising myself professionally, in front of my employers, my collaborators and you, who have been following my work for years. The 8 month pregnant woman I was telling you about, although she had all the legal, physical and mental reasons to say no to this “compana” and just send her teams over the phone to “hingherit”, as the ASPA bosses used to do in the old days , was with us all the time on the field, in the cold and rain, from morning to night.
• He coordinated his exemplary team, answered the storm of questions from journalists, colleagues and bosses. I find it hard to imagine how this situation could have been handled more humanely, decently or professionally by anyone else. Well done Catalina! (no- Cătălina Trănescu, ASPA deputy director and spokesperson)
• I know many are calling for your resignation right now, but far more important than a job, is that you are now facing one of those moments in life where a person’s character is truly shaped. How you still manage to stay on your feet, you have all my respect.
• Finally, right now I happen to be at another sterilization campaign where I caught about 20 animals from the field to be operated on, and my colleagues have already operated on over 100 animals with and without owners since the beginning of the day. This fight of ours must continue.
• Sterilization of stray and stray dogs and cats must be the first and most important weapon with which we must fight to prevent suffering of any kind.”

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Saturday morning, Ana Oros she was attacked by a pack of 7-8 dogs while she was running in the Morii Lake area from Bucharest. Still there, her she was also attacked less than a year ago. In April of last year, she was bitten while jogging near Lacul Morii dike. Then, she was saved by two cyclists who were passing through the area at that time. He arrived at the hospital with multiple head and limb injuries.