Romania's stray dogs find help from teenager who uses Facebook to save them

Unloved: Stray dogs look out from their enclosure at Dogtown kennel in Uzunu, 40km south of Bucharest, Romania. It's estimated there are 60,000 strays in the city, and in the past two months, 2,000 have been euthanised by local authorities.

A 13-year-old girl's love and sympathy for Romania's stray dogs has inspired her to take up the crusade to save them from certain death, by using her Facebook to appeal to dog lovers all over Europe to adopt the strays she rescues.

Ana-Maria Ciulcu is a 13-year-old schoolgirl with braces on her teeth. In all respects, she's a normal teenager, except for the fact that she uses her Facebook to appeal to dog lovers all over Europe to adopt Romania’s strays, which number in the tens of thousands.