Romanian officials purging NATO summit venues of stray dogs and wild foxes

Romanian authorities are securing the NATO summit against four-legged threats: Bucharest's infamous stray dogs and the wild foxes that roam the Black Sea coast.

Officials Bucharest have been picking up as many of the city's estimated 30,000 stray dogs as possible. They do not want the dogs biting anyone here for the summit, which began Wednesday and runs through Friday. And some fear the animals could jump in front of leaders' motorcades and cause crashes.

Strays are usually plentiful, but Wednesday, it was hard to find a dog that was not on a leash.

Simona Panaitescu, director of Bucharest's Administration for the Monitoring of Animals, said the …