Valerica and Her Shelter Story

Valerica is a Romanian animal lover that rescue strays all her life with passion, consciousness and dedication. She is around 40 years old, divorced, living into a tiny house (one room and a bathroom) with garden where she built in time a real shelter for her rescue protégée.

Cats are staying separately in small wooden units with outdoor areas, heating for winter…and rescued dogs have small individual wood houses and a little outside space to play. In the middle of the garden there is an empty piece of land where dogs go out by rotation for exercises and socialization.
She currently has 23 dogs and 27 cats, all being saved from dramatic conditions and now being sheltered in clean, safe and as comfortable as possible living spaces.

Valerica is very emotional when it’s about her saved animals. Every dog and every cat has a name and behind that, a tragic story. Luckily, a happy-ending rescue story because Valerica showed up at the right time and save these souls.

Beside being an angel for all these animals, Valerica ‘s biggest problem is that she doesn’t know when to stop,she collects more and more dogs, being aware that her possibilities are limited. Her sacrifices goes that far that she neglects herself and refuse to eat only to save for her animals welfare. She is also a volunteer to another local charity pound from where she saves dogs from time to time and bring them home.

photo: Dave from Wales visiting Valerica's happy pack! Spring 2010

Our aim is to convince Valerica to give for adoption through us a number of healthy dogs in the hope that her shelter will not become overcrowded.

ROLDA helps Valerica with dry dog food, sterilizations and dogs treatments, starting 2010 we also evaluated and start promoting her rescue dogs for rehoming.