For years Freedom Angels Romania (FAR Dogs) have worked hard on establishing comprehensive local spaying and neutering programmes and are beginning to forge better relationships with local councils through meaningful dialogue. Their goal is to eradicate the abandonment of animals on the streets and in doing so, lessen the burden on the burgeoning shelters in Romania. FAR Dogs hope that each Spayathon weekend results in up to 200 dogs being spayed, which will, in turn, result in these individual dogs being unable to add to the out-of-control breeding and stray issues Romania has. Even though FAR Dogs are keen to save and rehome as many dogs from Romania as they can, they know that the main issues lie with the uncontrollable dog population in the country. Although the charity makes many dogs and owners incredibly happy when an adoption takes place, they would always prefer for their services not to be in such high demand.