The Animal Services and Protection Authority (ASPA) has removed more than 120 dogs from the Lake Moriah area since April 2022, when a victim reported them after an attack in the same area. “Capture does not solve the cause but the effect,” an ASPA official reacted after a 43-year-old woman was attacked and killed by a pack of 8 dogs near a dam in Lakul Moriy area of ​​Sector 6.

She said the Mill Lake area is known to ASPA as a stray dog ​​zone, stressing that it is “not just an ASPA problem.”

“This stray dog ​​problem is not just an ASPA problem”

• “We know very well that there was also an incident last year in April. It seems that this is the same woman who was bitten by the dogs then.
• From that moment until today, ASPA has held dozens of actions on this territory, on all the streets adjacent to this field.
• We have taken over 120 dogs from these streets since last April, between that incident and now.
• I have reported to other authorities because this stray dog ​​problem is not just an ASPA problem.
• We have said it and we will say it again – admiration does not solve the cause, but the effect. We pick up dogs found on the streets at that time, but if we do not act in a joint effort with other institutions to take measures to prevent similar incidents, unfortunately we will face similar incidents in the future,” said Catalina Trenescu, according to News.ro.

To the question of which institutions we are talking about and what measures can be taken, the ASPA spokeswoman answered:

• “It is far from me to ping-pong between institutions, because it is not something that can help one way or the other, but there are real things that relate to the competence and powers of each institution, and it needs to be said. “

She wanted to emphasize that ASPA is responsible for the management of stray dogs in public access in Bucharest, but this institution must have the support of the local sectoral police, the National Police, which has powers vis-à-vis ASPA, namely to check dog owners, animal owners if these dogs chipped in accordance with the law, if they are spayed, if they are kept in a private area properly fenced so that they do not have access to public space.

“These are problems that have worsened in recent years”

An ASPA representative said that this involvement of other agencies was not enough, but that problems with dogs on private grounds had “exacerbated in recent years”.

• “In Bucharest, there are many private houses, usually in the suburbs, which are not properly fenced.

Dogs come and go on public property as they please. Without being sterilized, they multiply. Reproducing and becoming adults, they retire to such places and form groups, go out for food and can behave aggressively, both in relation to people and other smaller animals. There is no going back once you take it. After ASPA picks up the dogs, they are taken to the three centers we run where they are microchipped.

• Automatically, if they returned to the territory, there would be traceability, it would be known that they were from us. They are microchipped, sterilized, vaccinated, dewormed and up for adoption. What we continue to see in the field is not dogs breaking out of our shelters. There are dogs that continue to breed in private properties, in warehouses, on construction sites, which form groups that can become dangerous,” Trenescu also said.

“She did not choose the dam option to return to the houses, but chose to come to the field”

The ASPA spokeswoman also said that the area in the Lakul Moriy area is so large that you can barely see the dam where the woman ran to where she was later attacked by a pack of dogs.

• “At the moment, our teams are in the field, we are working and trying to catch these dogs that allegedly attacked this morning.
• Having come to the middle of the field… you can’t see it with the naked eye, the territory is so big that you can’t see the other end of the embankment, from where the woman ran and came here, in the middle.
• She did not choose the dam option to return to the houses, but chose to come to the field. This event happened right in the middle of the field. This is a very difficult area to work in.
• Crews are there now, we have a tranquilizer, but it’s an extremely difficult operation. Eight dogs were found in the field.
• Crews are trying to make these captures, but being such a large and vast area, it’s an extremely difficult operation. We also identified the puppies of these dogs. It was easier to catch them,” Catalina Trenescu concluded.

The woman killed by dogs was 43 years old and was attacked by dogs while jogging in the Lacul Morii area of ​​Bucharest. This is the same woman who was hospitalized in critical condition in April last year after being attacked by dogs in the same area.

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