article_snippet.sent: Pola described to MailOnline how 'tens of thousands of animals have been caught by dogcatchers (pictured) and killed in most horrific ways'
article_snippet.sent: Inhumane: The dogs are supposed to be euthanised humanely with a legal injection but in reality
article_snippet.sent: The dogs can be clubbed to death, set on fire and left for dead .
article_snippet.sent: Abandoned: Charities have told MailOnline that state-appointed 'dog catchers' are rounding up dogs and taking dogs to holding pens where dogs are 'waiting to die' Attack: Pola from K-9 Angels (pictured) she says the 'killing law' was passed following an 'isolated incident' in 2013, when a four-year-old boy was mauled to death by a pack of 'vicious stray dogs' Brutal: The Angels claim government funds for programmes which were designed to neuter dogs were never implemented and the animals were dealt with in
article_snippet.sent: the 'most cruel way' dogs say the state-appointed catchers round up dogs and take dogs to holding pens where dogs can be 'clubbed to death' and set on fire.
article_snippet.sent: Pola says the 'killing law' was passed following an 'isolated incident' in 2013, when a four-year-old boy was mauled to death by a pack of 'vicious stray dogs'.
article_snippet.sent: Adding: 'Tens of thousands of animals have been caught by dogcatchers and killed in most horrific ways. '
article_snippet.sent: It is common in Romania for them not to use a euthanasia injection, but instead dispose of dogs in cheaper ways such as injecting paint thinner into the heart, strangling, clubbing to death.'
article_snippet.sent: Animal charity Four Paws - which has helped neuter around 150,000 stray dogs - says the situation for dogs became much worse when the killing law was introduced.
article_snippet.sent: the killing law spokesperson Adam Rahman told MailOnline: 'Dogs are brutally rounded up by dog catchers and taken to pounds where Dogs are subjected to poor conditions and cruel treatment, and are essentially waiting to be killed. '
highlights_snippet.sent: But the dogs are being killed inhumanely in squalid pounds, charities say .
  