Zuzi
Zuzi, 15 years old. Yes, you read that right.
A true senior lady, with the most charming ears — elegant, dainty, as if made for a better life.
Gigi
Gigi – once a great charmer, now a sweet old gentleman in the shelter.
He no longer chases the ladies, just a patch of sunshine and a bed of warm straw.
Cara
Cara is almost 12 years old.
She’s still doing well, walking proudly through the shelter, but the years are catching up with her.
Alice
Alice is 12 years old, with a soul as vast as the world.
She has lived through a lot, lost even more, but she still hopes.
Hopes for peace, for quiet days, for someone to care for her — even from afar.
Misha
Misha asks for nothing—she just looks at you…
And in her gaze, there’s all the pain, gentleness, and hope in the world.
Fundiță
Her name is Fundiță. She’s 14 years old and has a soft gaze that still longs for a bit of affection and a touch of luck. She’s one of our beloved grandmas at the shelter — quiet, gentle, slow in her steps, but with a big heart.
Viva
I’m Viva, and I’m that ultimate guard dog. If only I had a yard, I’d bark at thieves with every last drop of… anything. But here in the shelter, all I can protect is my kennel.
Petra
Petra is a 13-year-old girl, full of dreams and hopes for a better future. Even if you can’t adopt her physically, you can help through distance adoption, contributing monthly to her care and education, giving her the chance to make her dreams come true.Stand by Petra and give her the opportunity for a life full of possibilities!
Wilda
Wilda is a sweet elderly dog, full of wisdom and with a gentle nature. Even if you can’t adopt her physically, you can help through distance adoption, contributing monthly to her care and comfort, giving her a peaceful and loving life. Stand by Wilda and give her the chance for a happy old age!
Zoia
Zoia is a 12-year-old girl full of life and with a contagious smile. Even if you can’t adopt her physically, you can help through distance adoption, contributing monthly to her care and education, giving her the chance for a better future. Stand by Zoia and help her make her dreams come true!
Mihai
Mihai is a brown dog with a white stripe on his head and white socks. He is a scared soul with no chances for physical adoption, but you can still help him! Through distance adoption, you can contribute monthly to his food, care, and comfort. Stand by Mihai and give him a chance for a better life!
Nina
Nina, a wonderful dog with fluffy fur and the charm of a sweet schnauzer. She is gentle, loving, and dreams of a better future. Even if you can’t take her home, you can sponsor her from a distance, contributing monthly to her care.
Feli
Feli is the kind of pup that steals your heart at first sight. Gentle, loyal, and always full of hope, all she wants is a little love. If you can’t adopt her physically, you can support her from afar by providing food, care, and safety.
Corina
Corina is a special little dog who only wants love and safety. If your name is Corina, maybe it’s a sign that you should be her guardian angel! Through a long-distance adoption, you can provide her with food, care, and a chance at a better life. Be the Corina who changes her destiny!
Cuța
Cuța is a loving little dog who dreams of a life filled with warmth and safety. Until she finds her perfect family, you can support her through a long-distance adoption. With your help, she will have food, care, and all the attention she needs.
Maia Galbenă
Maia is a sweet and playful pup who dreams of a life filled with love. Until she finds her perfect family, you can be her support through a long-distance adoption. With your help, Maia will have food, care, and the attention she needs from those who look after her.
Cioara
Her name might make you smile, but Cioara’s story hasn’t always been a happy one. She’s still waiting for a chance at love, but until then, you can be her support through a long-distance adoption. With your help, she will have food, care, and safety.
Tyson
His name says it all—Tyson is a champion! Not in boxing, but in puppy eyes and wagging tails. He hasn’t found his perfect ring… I mean, home yet, but maybe you’d like to be his coach from afar! Through a long-distance adoption, you can help him with food, care, and plenty of well-deserved pampering.
Bebe
Bebe and his brother grew up together, but life separated them. His brother was adopted, while he was left behind… yet he still hopes someone will give him a chance, even from afar. Through a long-distance adoption, you can provide him with food, care, and the love he deserves.
Minunata
Gentle, playful, and always looking at the world with hope, Minunata dreams of a brighter future. Until she finds her perfect family, you can support her through a long-distance adoption. With your help, she will have food, care, and all the love she needs.
Mâța
Mâța is an adorable pup, full of energy and always ready to give love. Until she finds her perfect family, you can support her through a long-distance adoption. With your help, she will have food, care, and a safe place to stay. Adopt her from afar and be part of her story!
Lili Grasa
Lili isn’t really chubby—just… well-rounded from too much love and a few extra treats. But who can blame her? She’s an adorable pup who deserves all the attention! Through a long-distance adoption, you can provide her with food, care, and of course, the occasional treat (we promise to keep it balanced!)
Nino
Nino is a lively pup, always ready to give love and joy. While he’s still searching for his perfect family, you can be his support through a long-distance adoption. With your help, Nino will have food, care, and safety every day.
Lili
Lili is a gentle and loving little dog with sunshine-colored fur. She dreams of a forever home, but until then, you can be her guardian angel through a long-distance adoption. With your support, you can provide her with food, care, and a chance at a better life.
Rony
While other dogs use their short and precious time outside the kennel to run, play, or simply lie in the sun alone, Rony has a different favorite way to unwind: annoying all his neighbors in the row.
Maru
Maru is a handsome, curious, and, as you can probably tell, a big eater. He is 10 years old and the best dog to mimic because he has the most expressive and “actor-like” face. If he had access to the internet, he would probably go viral on TikTok.
Ursu
This is what a dog who has spent 12 years in a shelter looks like. Yeah, you read that right—12 years. And yes, you can see it just as clearly: he looks like a normal dog.
Foxy
Foxy is one of the most beautiful and unique dogs I have ever seen. We have seen thousands, even hundreds of thousands of dogs in our lifetime, but not a single one is like Foxy.
Zizi
She is Zizi, a tall dog like a giraffe, with golden fur like a cornfield and slightly wiry. A truly unique appearance!
Muțica
Muțica is a well-raised and quiet dog, curious and very willing to not just interact but be understood by a person. She is always willing to find out what is happening in her surroundings, and this makes her a wonderful candidate for the eventual dog-training.
Beatrice
Beatrice is 12 years old, but she is still a child at heart. It is said that any dog that didn’t have a chance to love a family remains a puppy forever. Beatrice has stayed for 10 years on the streets and in shelters, always alone. Beatrice has been looking for a family to pour all the unending love she has to offer.
Pandele
Pandele is extremely sociable and always happy. For 6 years now, that is, for over 2000 days, he has been waiting for you every day, hour by hour, to come to visit us, to fall in love with him and to take him home.
Fox
Fox is the loudest dog in the shelter, although he is, to be honest, a bit of a non-dog. In the sense that 99% of the dogs we know love being around people and interacting with them. But Fox is special, he’s not in the 99%. Fox genuinely and unabashedly loathes people other than those who feed and care for him on a daily basis, and he signals this with intense and aggressive barking.
Iulica
Iulica is a 10 year old female who has been a cheerful puppy ever since we have known her. Always upbeat and energetic, always eager to play and share, she is a never-ending source of good humor, relaxation and fun. When she does manage to stop and hold on to some of that energy, she’s also very affectionate and clingy.
Laila
Laila is 12 years old. She’s one of the veterans, so Laila has never known any other life than the shelter. She doesn’t know that there are people, warm houses, radiators, couches or dogs sleeping in beds out there. She doesn’t even know that there are dumpsters, parks, streets, streets, cars, or tall blocks with many-many lights.
Tinu
Tinu is a senior dog, over 13 years old, a kind and peaceful old dog, who has been living in the Speranța Shelter for many years. We haven’t given up hope that we will find him a family, but until then, his life needs warmth, comfort and love – things that YOU can give him through a long-distance adoption.
Missy
I’m Missy and I have a funny face.
Every time I see a camera, I squint at it. Like this!
And I’m always happy with whatever I’m offered. No matter how little love, one look, and you’ve won me forever.
Spica
Spica is 12 years old, very energetic and very sociable. She is part of the ‘Horses’ gang in the shelter, because when the gang is free to play, they play so nicely that you would think they were free horses on the plains.
Mara
Mara is 13 and would make a great house or yard dog. It doesn’t matter where her future family will live, in fact, all that matters is that they want to be with her and care for her to become what we all dream of her becoming: a fearless dog, like any being who knows she is loved.
Dyani
Technically, this is Dyani and he’s a small wolf. A wolf in appearance only, of course, because behaviorally he’s the most gentle and domestic dog we’ve ever seen.
Colț
Colt’s as pretty as a picture. And like a painting he has sat and waited, almost motionless, day after day, for almost 13 years, for someone to save him.
Biță
Biță is 16 and quite happy in the shelter, unlike most of the other residents. How did he do it? Well, he’s a true stoic and knows that happiness is built from the inside out, not the other way around.
Luca
His name is Luca, but he doesn’t live on the second floor. Luca doesn’t even know that there are beings that live on top of each other, in blocks of flats. What’s more, he doesn’t even know that beings are supposed to have a home of their own. We bet he’s always wondering where the Hope employees go when they leave, but he can’t fathom that they have a family other than him.
Rita
Is it Dalmatian? Is it a Carpathian shepherd? Maybe a collie? Nah. It’s Rita.
And she is, of course, a textbook maid: unique, beautiful, special, amazingly intelligent and expressive.
Portocală
Portocală, one of our old dogs for whom we have little hope of being adopted from our shelter, went through a surgical intervention. With the help of our vet friends, we removed a tumor from his neck area. Portocală is better now, but please support him and us with a donation no matter how small […]
Greta
Hot hot, My Dear! Greta often thinks about that. No, not that Greta, but our Greta in the shelter, and not the global heat, but this more vulgar, everyday heat.
Florica
Fetița is a 10 year old spayed female perfect for any family, no matter what type of home you’d like to share with her.
Costi
If “best yard dog” contests were organized in Romania, Costi here would win them all. He is a big, beautiful, brave and active dog. With the people he knows he’s the sweetest Pekingese, but those who want to jump the fence he’ll deal with more seriously and angrily.
Cici
When s-someone passes in front of Cici’s paddock, her darling puts herself in this position and turns into a stone pillar. Or, well, fur, because that sounds better. She doesn’t move a muscle except for her eyes to watch what you’re about to do.
Aka
I’m Aka and life hasn’t been kind to me and neither have the people in it. I’m 12 and I’ve never loved anyone. I’m withdrawn and scared, and I carry the trauma of 10 lifetimes, not one. I don’t need to go into them right now, especially since, I don’t know if you know, traumatized souls have great trouble being communicative and direct. How could they not, when so many people have hurt them?
Zambila
Age: 11 Character: Zambila feels she is not old yet. We put her in the “seniors” table and that’s why she’s so pouty too, she says she has barely gone into double digits in age and we’re already calling her names? She daydreams a lot, just like in the photo. She dreams mostly of a […]
Nero
Nobody likes me because I’m black, I’m old and I’m big. A little bit more and I’ll die in the shelter. What about you? Do you like me enough? Come and adopt me, please.
Nadir
Age: 10 Character: Nadir is a prince from Ben-Hur aged by his adverse fate in the shelter. Though he wasn’t given the family he deserved until now, Nadir remains proud, dignified, seniorial and generous to others. He would rather come into a family to take care of its members. The right owner: Whoever needs a […]
Mama Sultana
Mama Sultana is the only dog in the shelter with two names. That’s because she is the mother of the very famous brothers Sultanu and Sultana, both adopted in the meantime. And, as with many celebrity moms, not many people know about Mama Sultana and we don’t think it’s fair. Mama Sultana has suddenly become […]
Magnus
Age: 12 Character: If anyone ever imagined a 100% original Labrador that looked like no other Labrador, Magnus is it. He’s goofy, greedy, handsome, devoted and infectiously easy-going. He’s 12 years old, yes, but in a few years he’d give you as much as others in dozens. The right person: Whoever is looking for that […]
Lala
Age: 13 Character: Lala is not a friendly dog and we kind of had to accept that, especially at her age, and take her as she is. It would probably be hard for her to be adopted by a family that didn’t know very well what they were doing, but a remote adoption would still […]
Hoața
Labrador soul in a blue-blooded mutt body. Hoața is fluffy, impeccably groomed, intelligent and capable of learning something new every day. She’s a priceless dog in capitalism, because we would never give her up for money. We’d give her away, as it were, for love. Come to the shelter to meet Hoața!
Bobo
I’m Bobo and, although I don’t show it, I’m 18. And, if you believe I’m 18, please believe me when I tell you that I’m also a lean dog of optimal weight!
Mira
Age: 9 Character: For too long Mira has been a true mascot of our shelter. For as long as we’ve known her she’s always attentive, eager to interact, curious and very friendly. Only now we feel it’s time for Mira to make another family happy. A real one that comes home at night instead of […]
Lara
Age: 14 Character: Every day we grow older we grow calmer, wiser, more able to restrain ourselves and be more attentive, to others and to ourselves. You’ve noticed this too, right? And for Lara it’s been many days. Now she has become that perfect old lady that anyone in their right mind would want by […]