So, I know I have posted before about the use of a gas chamber to euthanize shelter animals…well, I’m ready to fight this in a big way. Essentially, enough is enough. I found out that out of 45 facilities in Alabama, only 9 still have a gas chamber that they may or may not utilize. The ASBVME even recommends to all shelters that they do injection only, so why do shelters still use the gas chamber? The reason I was given by one director of a shelter was that it would be “too hard” on the shelter employees to have to physically hold an animal why it dies…
Hmmm…
Shouldn’t it be hard? I mean, what did these animals do to deserve to even be in the shelter? Many of them are scared the entire time they are at the shelter and then they are placed inside a box and gassed to die. They don’t know what’s happening, they don’t know what they did wrong, they don’t know why no one has come to give them a home, they don’t know what’s going to happen to them, but they are scared and the very least we can do for these animals is to hold them while they leave this world. Injection euthanasia takes about 15 seconds for the animal to die vs. over 30 minutes at times inside the chamber and there have been numerous accounts where the dog or cat is still alive and sometimes they gas them again!
This is going to stop! And I’m going to fight to get the end of the gas chamber until the gassing of these animals does in fact STOP!