Parker manages a team of 18 volunteers in the UK and one in Germany in addition to a network Romania of three partner NGO's and 30 individual rescuers. Six of the UK team will travel to Romania on a rotation basis each month to help with work on the ground.

Stray: Daisy was filmed being captured by dog wardens, another example of the brutality used. She was one of 80 dogs involved in an illegal raid on a government owned dog shelter in Bucharest

Vicious: But the methods they use can be inhumane, and Daisy appears to have been injured fighting with the wardens, pulling his teeth out on the pole the wardens are holding

Recovery: But Daisy, as she has been named, is doing much better after rescue workers foundWe were an Air Force family so I grew up all over the map. We lived in Pennsylvania, Panama, Virginia, Alaska, northern California, southern California, and Texas. I have three brothers and a sister—I'm the middle one. During the years we were living in Alaska I fell in love with mountains, rivers, fishing, baseball, and books. Books I read on my own were the best part of school for me. I was always going on adventures in my imagination.

Halfway through my fifth grade year we moved from Alaska to California, where I roamed the hills behind our house almost every day after school. In the summers I went backpacking in the Sierras. It was hard work and sheer joy, and has been a big part of my life