The Romanian Kennel Club (A.Ch.R.) has acknowledged the repeated outraging infringement of the Animal Protection Law by some local authorities in Romania, respectively the abusive and full of cruelty suppression of numberless stray dogs.

As lovers and protectors of this wonderful animal: The Dog, we find ourselves consternated by the brutal actions of those who should enforce, pursue and watch over the respecting of laws in our country and not undergo an outraging infringement! 

All these irresponsible acts of cruelty lead to nothing else but to also attract in this field the opprobrium of national and international public opinion and to plunge Romania, as an image, to the outskirts of civilization. 

As a non-profit organization engaged in pure-breed dogs we cannot remain indifferent to these phenomena and we appeal to all competent organizations to take immediate action and replace this state of fact on its legal path. 

During its whole existence, the Romanian Kennel Club has promoted love for the dog and has tried to guide its members into breeding dogs in the spirit of the desiderates stipulated by the Universal Declaration for Animal Rights, by the Animal Protection Law as well as by the norms of the international organization to which we are affiliated: the International Cynological Federation. In the year to come, the Romanian Kennel Club will organize under the patronage of the International Cynological Federation, for the first time in Romania, the European Championship.

To this exhibition we expect over 12.000 dogs that will represent over 350 breeds from around the world. In this context, the Romanian Kennel Club has decided to launch on this occasion a fund raising action for the benefit of stray dogs.

Numerous people representing either international organizations for animal protection, either individual activists, simple citizens from the country or abroad, have raised their voices against the organizing in Bucharest, Romania, of this important exhibition, based on the irresponsible actions of some local authorities and the indifference of the central authority to this infringement of the law.

Without doubt, the Romanian Kennel Club stands by all who militate for solving this grave matter in a civilized way and with total respect for laws and European Union norms.

We wish that this European Championship to represent a time for promoting this wonderful animal: the Dog, the oldest and most devoted friend of man and in this way we wish to bring our contribution to raising sympathy and respect for animals, for nature in general.

Romanian Kennel Club

Cristian Stefănescu
President