Gas Chamber use for shelter euthanizations
Using a gas chamber to euthanize shelter animals is only outlawed in 19 states. Two more states just passed laws to outlaw this barbaric practice with Georgia's going
into effect immediately by passing Grace's Law. Grace was a dog who survived a thirty minute gassing attempt. Louisiana's law does not go into effect until 2013.
North Carolina had a bill presented, but the state did not pass it. This means out of 50 states, 29 still allow the use of gas chambers as an acceptable form of euthanization. It is still an approved method of killing by the AVMA (American Veterinary Medical Association) although they do say in their literature, they prefer EBI, injection.
I have heard varying excuses as to why these states continue to use this method but they all fall on deaf ears for me. Many rural areas still run a tube from the car's exhaust system back into the vehicle the animals are in and the gas kills them. They are then piled one on top of the other until they are taken out t0 the county landfill where the pile of dead animals is high.
By the look in these animals' eyes when they come into shelter, they know what they are facing. It is a sad sight to see and imagine some wonderful dogs will have their bright lights shut out of their eyes. They will be added to a huge pile of other unwanted, dead animals at the county landfill. Kinda' hard to imagine we have not progressed farther than this.
Oh. that's right. Humans are still allowing their dogs and cats to continue to produce litter after litter, year after year and then bitch about the cost of animal control. How could I forget that?
into effect immediately by passing Grace's Law. Grace was a dog who survived a thirty minute gassing attempt. Louisiana's law does not go into effect until 2013.
North Carolina had a bill presented, but the state did not pass it. This means out of 50 states, 29 still allow the use of gas chambers as an acceptable form of euthanization. It is still an approved method of killing by the AVMA (American Veterinary Medical Association) although they do say in their literature, they prefer EBI, injection.
I have heard varying excuses as to why these states continue to use this method but they all fall on deaf ears for me. Many rural areas still run a tube from the car's exhaust system back into the vehicle the animals are in and the gas kills them. They are then piled one on top of the other until they are taken out t0 the county landfill where the pile of dead animals is high.
By the look in these animals' eyes when they come into shelter, they know what they are facing. It is a sad sight to see and imagine some wonderful dogs will have their bright lights shut out of their eyes. They will be added to a huge pile of other unwanted, dead animals at the county landfill. Kinda' hard to imagine we have not progressed farther than this.
Oh. that's right. Humans are still allowing their dogs and cats to continue to produce litter after litter, year after year and then bitch about the cost of animal control. How could I forget that?
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