Dog's jaw hacked off in cruel act in Romania after street dog mauled boy to death It's part of a catalogue of cruelty in recent months that has gone barely noticed in Romania. Police and animal welfare officials say the attacks were fuelled by relentless and "hysterical" media coverage of the case. Grivitza, a female stray dog which lost her jaw after being attacked by an unidentified person, sits as veterinary doctor Iustin Girea operates an X-ray machine at a clinic in Bucharest, Romania. Vladimir Manastireanu, chief of the state authority in charge of animal safety, supports a new law that requires stray dogs to be captured and - if not adopted within two weeks - euthanised. "We need to take these dogs off the streets and stop these emotional reactions," he said. "They think, 'you can't just put a pig to sleep," Mr Tudose said, "it has to know that it is having its throat slit." Aurica Anghel, right, grandmother of Ionut Anghel, a four-year old boy who was fatally mauled by stray dogs last August, after she failed to monitor him while in a park, holds his picture during a protest in Bucharest. Animal lovers vociferously protested in Bucharest after Parliament voted in favor of the stray dog euthanasia law. "Not everyone is a scoundrel," said Kuki Barbuceanu, project manager of Four Paws. The problem is the media influence which is manipulative and animal haters then have the courage to be cruel.