Ohio county to stop gassing dogs
Commissioners in Athens County, Ohio, have voted to end the practice of euthanizing dogs in a gas chamber, and to switch to lethal injection.
The commissioners decided Thursday that the county dog shelter will no longer euthanize with carbon monoxide.
“We’ve been working on this since October and the fact that the commissioners have finally listened to the citizens of Athens County and that our dogs are going to be treated humanely … it’s amazing,” Sarah Robles, co-founder of Athens County Animal Advocates, told WOUB.
A resident of the county, Les Cornwell, offered to pay for the dismantling of the gas chamber.
He even agreed to rebuild it should the county — as it has done before – decides to return to using the gas chamber, the Athens News reported.
The county had attempted to switch to lethal injection earlier, but says rising costs forced it to return to gassing.
Posted by jwoestendiek March 10th, 2012 under Muttsblog.
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Comments
Comment from Lisa Blendheim
Time March 10, 2012 at 1:21 pm
Euthanizing healthy dogs is bad enough – to put them through the agony of choking to death on toxic gas is unspeakably cruel! Shame on those shelters that still use this barbaric method. At least this shelter is taking a step toward a more humane method of killing animals…and let’s work on getting gas chambers banned nationwide!
Comment from profdigby
Time September 14, 2012 at 7:07 pm
Idiots, you can “breathe” Carbon Monoxide and you don’t “Choke” to death, it’s not like car exaust, it doesn’t have all those other chemicals in it. You breathe it in and you pass out within a minute or so, blood no longer gets oxygen and your brain shuts down completely, NO PAIN. Not the pain of having a needle jammed in you while people hold you down and you’re in a terror panic.
Comment from jackie
Time March 10, 2012 at 12:06 pm
about time this cruel practice was stopped. We don’t do this to our most heartless criminals…why do we do it to innocent animals?