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100,000 stray dogs facing slaughter on the mean streets of Bucharest

More than 100,000 stray dogs, running wild through the streets of the Romanian ­capital Bucharest, are to be hunted down and killed within a ­fortnight unless they are rescued by families willing to give the wild animals a safe home.

Under a bill tabled by the major of the city, Mihai Cristian Atanasoaiei, the order has gone out for the wild dogs to be “humanely put down” unless ­citizens willingly adopt them.