Rags To Riches is a UK-based charity which has been working with other European NGOs and volunteers in Valcea Romania to improve the conditions of the stray and shelter dogs.  We have organised foster and adoptions and provided support for food, shelter and veterinary care for the hundreds of unwanted dogs in need.  Most especially we have fund raised and directed our efforts towards massive neutering campaigns. Now we find our efforts have been rejected overnight with the appointment of a new vet who intends to destroy the entire public shelter population on the instructions of the Mayor.  Such an inhumane solution is heart-breaking for so many and in the long run has been proven less effective than the spaying and neutering which we have been promoting.  We ask that those in charge of the Valcea shelter re-think their tactics and work with us for a kinder and better answer to their dog over-population problem