Our Spayathons
In Romania, countless dogs endure heartbreaking lives in harsh, unforgiving conditions.
Go to the streets of Brăila and you’ll see them scavenging for food, suffering from untreated injuries, and facing daily danger and neglect.
Many are born into this suffering simply because there aren’t enough resources or homes to care for them.
Spaying and neutering is one of the most compassionate ways we can break this cycle.
By carrying out our Spayathons, we can prevent further animals being born into suffering and give the dogs and cats already here a better chance at love, safety, and dignity.
Our June 2024 Spayathon
£14,000
raised thanks to our donors, volunteers, and community
357
dogs and cats spayed by 4 vets across 3 days
Stop the cycle.
Save a dog’s life.
Our 2024 Spayathon cost £14,000.
That’s about £40 per animal.
Even £10 makes a huge difference and gets us closer to spaying one more dog or cat.
FAQs
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Our Spayathon is a pop-up event that we run to provide spaying and neutering services in Romania to locals and stray animals, free of charge.
First, we secure a venue that can accommodate a pop-up clinic setup. This is not a professional veterinary facility; it’s usually something like a warehouse or a large hall that we can adapt for a few days.
For our June 2024 Spayathon, we hired four vets to work over the course of three days. About two weeks before the event, we also brought on a local woman to begin taking bookings from the community.
To spread the word, we put up notices in local vet offices and asked rescuers and community members in Brăila to share the information. The response was excellent! Many locals brought their own pets in, sometimes carrying them in shopping bags or bringing them by bus.
Each person was given a specific day and time slot to help keep the flow organised. Our volunteers who live in Romania also went out and brought in street dogs they had already been feeding or building relationships with. In a few cases, we helped with transport to make it easier for pet owners.
We made every effort to create a calm, respectful, and welcoming environment, particularly since sterilisation is still a difficult topic for many people in Romania. Our hope was not just to help animals, but to change attitudes towards sterilisation and build trust within the community.
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After the animals are spayed, they are returned to their owners, or in the case of strays, to the areas they were from. Unfortunately we don’t have the resources to rescue all strays; however, we can do our part to prevent more animals from being born into the same conditions.
In some cases where it simply wasn’t possible to return them (due to health issues or vulnerability), these dogs were taken into our care.
For example, one lovely dog named Rupert was brought in from the street with a severely broken leg. We could never return him like that, so we took him to Bucharest to get surgery and then brought him into our rehoming programme.
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Our June 2025 Spayathon was our first major organised campaign, but we regularly contribute funding and support to smaller sterilisation efforts in local villages across the region.
With further support, we will be able to organise more campaigns in the future to better the lives of animals on the Romanian streets.