the sad truth about what happens to unwanted pets :(

[stereorob2.0]

the other night i was surfing the web looking up doctors for my cat, with a broken paw, when i stumbled on the horriffic reality of what happens to animals in county shelters,

GAS CHAMBER KILLINGS! FOR POPULATION CONTROL!!!!! GAS IS NOT AN EASY PAINLESS DEATH!

taken from this site, http://www.animal-abusesite.info/euthanisia.html

The Witness, taken from this site, http://www.animalabusesite.info/euthanisia.html

I was a
witness, through a small porthole window, of an animal shelter gas
chamber doing its savage business.

Two of the employees began pulling and tugging larger dogs toward the chamber -- this, in itself, was savage. The eyes of the dogs were full of fear as they were shoved into a large cylinder with another six dogs, all types. Next, five puppies were placed in the chamber.

Noise. Yelling. Fighting. All scared, they shivered again and again,
their eyes huge, their nostrils flaring. They were completely
bewildered. One dog in the chamber, a male chow mix about one year old, started snapping at the puppies. All the dogs and puppies were in a desperate struggle, and the gassing had yet to begin.

Then a button was pushed, and the two employees walked away as the chamber machine began pumping out streams of carbon monoxide. The little puppies started to paw at the glass window. After one full minute they started to whine and then produced a piercing squeal. Then the larger dogs started a high, mournful wailing, then a deeper howl that rose in great desperation for 45 seconds.

Across the country, there is wide disparity among shelters and their methods and application of euthanasia. Problems stemming from inadequate training, insufficient funding, indifference to animal suffering, and failure to recognize the need to change and update procedures,are found everywhere, from small rural shelters to large city facilities.
The urgent need for a consensus on humane euthanasia is graphically illustrated by the following recent cases: Vermilion Parish, LA. Animals are still euthanized by a regular 6-cylinder gasoline engine that pumps acrid exhaust gas into the small room where they are confined. Even though the gas is pumped through water to cool it a little, the fumes are still hot, irritating, and painful. Their skin and eyes burning, the animals die slowly and horribly. Animal protection groups have been trying since 1992 to get the shelter to change to a more humane method of euthanasia,but in spite of lawsuits and letters, the parish remains resistant to voluntarily changing its ways.

Sacramento, CA. the word got out about the poor conditions at the Sacramento City animal shelter. The HSUS was brought in to assess the shelter and make recommendations. Consultants found "most staff displaying a lack of concern for an animal's anxiety level, pain response, and overall well-being," as well as an obvious lack of training. Supervision was extremely poor in many areas. Shelter personnel never scanned animals for microchips before killing them, refused to use tranquilizers for fractious animals (relying instead on brute physical force to restrain them), killed dogs in full view of live dogs awaiting euthanasia, and committed many other violations of shelter policy. A chloroform chamber used to kill small animals was used improperly. A live newborn kitten was put into the chamber with six dead kittens who had been killed the day before. The following day,a live pigeon was placed in the chamber with the seven dead kittens. An HSUS team member finally asked a supervisor to check the chamber, at which time they removed the dead animals -- four days after the first six kittens died in it.
Unlike Albuquerque, however, Sacramento immediately began to remedy the deficits, and has made an effort to be responsive to the report findings as well as to the concerned citizens in the community.
Not all the news is bad, of course. At least one community has had a major wake-up call. In Greensboro, NC, frustrated Sheriff BJ Barnes,upset at learning that more than 75% of the animals entering his shelter were being killed, decided to televise the euthanasia of a dog on his weekly show. Viewers were shocked, but they also got the message: animal overpopulation is everyone's problem. Adoptions from the local shelter skyrocketed, and local veterinarians reported an increase in inquiries about spaying and neutering. And cities like San Francisco, where municipal animal control and the SPCA are working together to make sure that every adoptable animal gets a good chance for a home, have set a wonderful example for other agencies


the Humane Society of the United States and the American Humane Association feel that Gas Chambers are not humane.. yet it still happens

In 2004, 6-8 million lost and unwanted dogs and cats entered animal shelters throughout the US. Only half made it out alive: the other 3-4 million were euthanized. That's nearly a quarter million animals a month, 405 every hour, one every nine seconds. In human terms, this is proportional to losing the entire human population of Los Angeles every year.

More than 12 million cats and dogs enter U.S. shelters annually, an endless tide of incoming animals. Few of these animals will be reclaimed, and many shelters lack space to keep even most adoptable animals. Of lost cats that end up in shelters, only 2% will be returnedto their homes. Dogs have it better, because they are more likely to bewearing rabies or identification tags, but even so only 16% will bereclaimed. On average, only about 1/3 of animals put up for adoption at shelters will actually find homes. For the rest, euthanasia. millions of healthy, friendly animals also end up in shelters. and are killed.

.Three states (DE, OK, TN) allow chloroform for animals under 8 weeks of age (young animals up to 4 months old are resistant to gas euthanasia).
Eleven states defer to a higher authority, such as the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), the state veterinary board (OH),or the state veterinarian (VA), or provide standards for humane death (IA, NH, ND, RI, SC, WA). One state (SC) allows shooting (in emergencies). Only one state (AZ) allows the use of T-61, a drug that is considered unacceptable by AVMA because it immobilizes and suffocates the animal without causing unconsciousness, resulting in pain and distress. Twenty-five states have banned the use of "high altitude"decompression chambers, which were used extensively in the 1950s and 1960s, but were subsequently deemed to be cruel.

A shelter should be there to care for animals, to relieve suffering --not amplify or prolong it. An animal may have already suffered greatly prior to ending up at a shelter, and the unfamiliarity, confinement, and noise of the shelter environment is extremely stressful in and of itself. Therefore, we have an obligation to ensure that needless suffering is not that animal's tragic end to life.

next, there is this, if you think this is stupid and boring, watch this video, i warn you, what you will see will SICKEN YOU!

HATE me for posting this horiffic clip if you want, but the truth must be TOLD!!!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp9L10A-FNg
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thats only the begining,

HEART-STICK HORRORS!

aside from the gas chamber for puppies , another method of killing is "heart-stick" method. it is EXACTLY as it sounds, and preferd to be used on CATS!
im a cat lover myself, i have 8 cats and i love them all,

It hurts if it's not done right.

A poison-filled syringe is jabbed through an animal's chest wall. The needle punctures layers of nerves on the way to the heart. If the syringe pulsates, it is in the heart.If not, the animal gets another sharp stab. Once on target, a press of the plunger injects "blue juice" (sodium pentobarbital) into the heart of an unadoptable animal.
The dead animal is thrown into a garbage barrel with others and put in the freezer. Later, cast-off cats and discarded dogs are taken to the dump.
This is how the heart stick procedure works when a trained veterinarian technician euthanizes an anesthetized animal.
At the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Philadelphia, the procedure is sometimes done, according to former employees, with two horrific differences,

They say the animals are awake........

they say the people injecting the blue juice are not properly trained.


Most animal advocates consider the heart stick a cruel procedure.


Former construction worker Will Delgado was as a kennel attendant in the Philadelphia PSPCA adoption center for a just a few months when a manager showed him how to euthanize through a leg vein on a pit bull, said Delgado in an interview with the Pocono Record. The manager apparently got it wrong. Instead of first sedating the dog, he shot blue juice in its leg, missing the vein. The solution burns like acid in tissues but is not direct enough to stop the heart.

He had Delgado try the second jab — more blue juice, still without sedation.

"It was pretty ugly. I think I did not do it the right way. The dog was still breathing, kind of shallow. He (the supervisor) said 'OK, put him in the freezer. If he doesn't die from the blue juice, he'll die from the freezer,'" Delgado said.

Soon Delgado was asked to euthanize more animals, this time with the heart stick procedure.

Less than half of the animals Delgado killed were sedated before getting a painful shot to the heart.

"If they were not sedated, we would muzzle them or someone would hold them. The sedated ones were the ones that were too aggressive. They was fighters," Delgado said.

He also saw others using heart sticks on animals that were awake.

"I don't want this to bring me problems because I was following directions from management. I regret it so much not reporting him," said Delgado, who is no longer with the PSPCA.


PSPCA former staff reported seeing novices stick cats on the wrong side of the body, nowhere near the heart. A near miss often ends up puncturing a lung, causing searing pain.

"I witnessed heart tapping. Some animals were sedated, some were not. I was told everybody was going to be trained to do this," said Kathy Krause, a former vet tech at the PSPCA.

but yet these horrors go on , city after city, stare after state, MILLIONS of unloved dogs and cats are being slaughterd using these HELLISH BARBARIC technics,


and what happens to unloved cats and dogs after they are killed??

PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03jOl1xG084


THERE IS SOMETHING YOU CAN DO!!!! SIGN IT PLEASE!!! I DID!!

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/5/ani...ific-killings/

[merrylander]

I am not sure how animals that cannot be adopted are put down, I do know that our county has laws against harming or killing any animal and doing so will get you jail time.

The mother cat and her four kittens who adopted us (allergies prevent the coming inside) all had the tip of their left ear trimmed. This identifies them to Animal Control as having been spayed or neutered and they will not pick them up.

The real root of the problem is people, not the Animal Control people, they take no pleasure in what they must do. The mother cat we have here was probably someone's kitten that they never bothered to have spayed. They probably let her out one night and she got pregnant. Discovering her condition they likely dropped her off in the neighbourhood one night figuring she would become a barn cat. Well she ended up delivering the four kittens under the neighbour's hedge. She wanted to trap and kill them, so the mother cat brought them over here. We did have to trap them so that they could be spayed and neutered, but they are slowly learning to trust us, the mother cat even came up close and sniffed my hand this morning as I was putting out their food.

Not to worry about the winter cold they each have an electrically heated Kitty Camper.

[merrylander]

This is a stray called Sugar Puss because of her disposition. She came crying at the door one night as a storm was on the way. We took her in and domesticated her, taught her to use a litterbox and had her spayed. By this time Florence sounded like a Canada goose so we had to take her to the SPCA. I emailed a lady there and told her about Sugar Puss. She told me that two families wanted to adopt her, so she found a good home.

[BlueStreak]

I have had dogs all of my life. I'm down to one now, and she is one pampered dog.

It's rough that we euthanize these animals, and watching the video was tough and heartbreaking. The saddest part is knowing that there are people who will just drop them off at shelters thinking they will find a new home. Well, maybe they will.

But, what are we to do? There are millions of them. I believe encouraging people to spay/neuter helps, and certainly helps to curb euthanization. But, can you force people to spay/neuter? Would you if you could?

Certainly a more humane method could be found to euthanize, but I imagine many agencies would balk at the cost. After all, isn't that what everything boils down to these days?

Sad, truly sad.

Dave

[merrylander]

When I had to have a big Russian Blue put down because of kidney failure the vet simply gave him an overdose of nembutal, I sat with him as he slowly went to sleep then his heart stopped and it was over.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by merrylander

I am not sure how animals that cannot be adopted are put down, I do know that our county has laws against harming or killing any animal and doing so will get you jail time.

The mother cat and her four kittens who adopted us (allergies prevent the coming inside) all had the tip of their left ear trimmed. This identifies them to Animal Control as having been spayed or neutered and they will not pick them up.

The real root of the problem is people, not the Animal Control people, they take no pleasure in what they must do. The mother cat we have here was probably someone's kitten that they never bothered to have spayed. They probably let her out one night and she got pregnant. Discovering her condition they likely dropped her off in the neighbourhood one night figuring she would become a barn cat. Well she ended up delivering the four kittens under the neighbour's hedge. She wanted to trap and kill them, so the mother cat brought them over here. We did have to trap them so that they could be spayed and neutered, but they are slowly learning to trust us, the mother cat even came up close and sniffed my hand this morning as I was putting out their food.

Not to worry about the winter cold they each have an electrically heated Kitty Camper.

When I die, I want to come back as one of your critters.

Chas