The street dogs in Romania have a hard and terrifying existence. They are frequently abandoned in remote places and left to starve to death. Its not uncommon for a mum and her babies to be dumped in the forest where they all starve or die of untreated illnesses. People have been known to abandon their pet dogs just as they would abandon rubbish. The dogs that are abandoned on the streets if not maimed or killed in road traffic accidents are prime targets for the dog catchers who hunt them down and capture them in brutal ways, often injuring them in the process. The dogs are then thrown into the Public shelter where they are left without any care or medical attention in squalid conditions and with little or no food. Life in the PS is hard, temperatures vary greatly, from deep snow in winter to a searing, hot 40 degrees in the summer.