BARKING MAD DOG RESCUE

We have done it! We have an online shop. Please visit www.barkingmaddoggoodies.co.uk to find our new own brand PREMIUM dog food and all sorts of other goodies. ALL profits to help our hundreds of rescued dogs. New lines being added every day. #bmdr #BarkingMad #doggoodies #barkingmaddogrescue #Romaniandog

Over the last few months, kind people in the UK have been making up Christmas shoeboxes for the children in the village where our shelter is in Nisipari, Constanta. These boxes we brought to regional collection points then moved them all to one central place where they were packed carefully and sent out to Romania with a haulier. This weekend past, the Romanian team went round every house in the village to deliver a shoebox to each child. With nearly 300 shoeboxes, it was a m

We kind of knew that the lull in catching would be a temporary one. What we didn't realise was that 60 dogs would be brought in last week, in just 48 hours. The public shelter has filled up so fast. Three mums with pups are amongst them and some motherless pups too. The good news is that we can still take all the dogs that we can manage. Also two dogs have been adopted by local people this weekend, and one man was reunited with his lost dog after Gea recognised one dog from a

All that driving, organising and packing has come together as the aid has started to arrive. Our big main shelter received six pallets, with one each for Aura's dogs and the SOS, Coca's shelter at Calarasi, Aurelia's shelter in Craiova. Just Mariana's in Bucharest is yet to arrive. #bmdr #BarkingMad

BMDR were delighted to be invited for some of our dogs to take part in a blood donation scheme for dogs run by Bucharest Veterinary Surgeons Hemopet.  This was held at Certovet, our own verterinary surgeons in Navodari, Constanta. Dogs need transfusions of healthy blood for many reasons. In Romania, road accidents and disease are all too common. The BMDR heroes of the day were: Fyne, Oscar, Pasha, Ted and Tom. They were all tested for erlichia, anaplasma, heartworm (dirofilar

Donated aid from wonderful dog lovers in all four corners of the UK converged in Wiltshire a few weeks ago. This was sorted and packed onto pallets for dispatch to Romania. Puppy and adult food, crates, beds, buckets, bedding, poopscoops, toys and so much more left this Friday for a week in transit to Deva, in Eastern Romania. From Deva internal transports will take it onwards to various destinations. There is a pallet each for Aurelia in Craiova, Mariana in Bucharest, Coca i

This week has seen two more dogs and two more cats having surgery and coming home to our care in Constanta. For all complex operations, we use an excellent husband and wife team at Trauma Vet. Iustin and Elena Girea in Bucharest offer excellent veterinary care and experience for the most complex of cases. It does mean a very long road trip for our overstretched team in Constanta though. It is 460 kms round trip - 286 miles. There was a wee kitty who they had found hit by a ca

Thanks to our super dog lovers who got out there the last few weekends to raise money to pay some vet bills! May Spring Clean for Barking Mad. #dogshelter #animalrescue #BarkingMad #Rescuedog #Romaniandog #barkingmaddogrescue #Romaniandogs #Doglovers

It was a terrible shock, the first day our team went to investigate stories of starving dogs in a private house in Constanta. 138 dogs (now the official count) crammed in, emaciated and starving had been taken in over years by someone who tried to help, but in the end, hadn't the means to care for them. We have called it the SOS Shelter. The First Few Days Nothing could have prepared us for what we found We immediately sent in food and daily the team worked hard the first wee

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Carl Hester won gold in team dressage in London 2012. He is also a very kind and caring man and has generously offered us £500 in funding to get some old dogs into warm homes for the wintertime. How kind and compassionate is that! Do you think you could offer a warm bed to an older dog? If so please do get in touch with us via the contact form. We have so many who are waiting. #Rescuedog #Romaniandog #Barkingmad

Max isn't a big dog, small cocker spaniel size at biggest. But this was still too big for his owners after 7 years or more of owning him. They wanted a smaller dog so they just put him out in the pavement and shut the gate. He waited for 5 days. Aura drove past one day and back later in that day. He was still there so she stopped to ask a neighbour who explained the situation. Aura gathered him up in her arms and promised him that he would find a new home with people who woul

It feels so good when dogs are rescued and rehomed so quickly. We found Robbie at the side of the road one dark and rainy night. He had been hit by a car. Robbie has lost an eye sadly but asides from that, after specialist surgery in Bucharest to mend his broken hip, he is looking great. And, he has a home offer! Those wonderful ears... #Abandoneddog #Barkingmad

We stopped on on the way to our shelter in Bucharest to visit Pets and Friends. Here Ramona Apostol, her husband Radu and her team take in dogs needing rehab and physio after trauma - mainly dogs who are victims of RTA. BMDR has three dogs here currently, our Asha and a new dog Pio who has come from a distant public shelter in north western Romania. One of Pio's leg is rigid and the other wizzened. The third pup we took on Friday. She is a foxy little girl who our vet found o

It has been a big fight this one. Sadly two pups didn't make it but 12 other souls, big and small are starting to come through the other side. Gea and Ion in Romania are exhausted but would never give up on these pups. Thanks to all those who donated to our appeal. #Barkingmad #Romaniandogs #Rescuedogs

She was a nobody dog, condemned and starving. Her luck just changed. 14 dogs were pulled to safety from the public shelter in Navodari in a rescue operation today. And this is a state run shelter where there is an obligation to care for dogs properly. The fact is that the authorities just don't. They don't care for the dogs and don't care full stop. Our super team - Ion, Gea and Romeo took the BMDR dog mobile and another car and filled them with as many dogs as they safely

Welcome to our new website! We hope you love it. There are so many lovely pooches to be loaded for adoption so please keep coming back to see who is new and who is still hoping you might notice them. Big and small, fluffy and smooth, young and old, we have them all. Please follow us on Instagram and Twitter too! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bmdrdogs/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BMDRdogs/media #Rescuedogs #Romaniandogs #Barkingmad