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2 certain deaths and 1 on stand by

Ok, I was watching tv two days ago, late in the evening. On one of the various Romanian news channels, I hear about two deaths that really got me thinking about our history. I never thought about something like this before. The first news was that a person died, his name was General Constantin Lucescu and guess what he did for a living in the past.....he was a military attorney. Nothing special about this until I find out that he has defended our last Communist leader, Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, at their last judgement in 1989 on Christmas day. Bam! That was a shocker, being 80 now, I imagined what if we were still contemporary with Nicolae Ceausescu?! Damn, what could have been like nowadays..... Anyway, Constantin Lucescu died from cancer at the age of 80, rest in peace now. At one of his interviews, General Lucescu mentioned out loud that there were no papers against the Ceausescu family and that he felt immediately that it was really a political execution that had t

More rules, more sadness for your pet

I have a #dogdaughter, she is adopted from Kola-Kariola Shelter in Bucharest. It wasn`t the smoothest ride in the process of adoption, but it was all my fault. The guys at Kola-Kariola and my girlfriend had the best behaviour in all the process. Nothing but the best for them. This adoption took place 2 and a half years ago, right when we moved into our new home  - click on the link to read about buying or having to rent a place - and I was not really into having a dog. But this is not what I am writing this post. The procedure was very simple, go see the future pet, take it to the vet - that is paid by the shelter - sign the adoption contract and go home and have a very new happy life. At the veterinary, we listened to some ground rules for the pet to be happy, we took the identity card and went straight home. That`s it! this is Odri after we took her in In the last week, we tried to adopt a cat. Knowing the basic procedure we talked to a couple of people that had little kitten