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This dog survived-THE GAS CHAMBER-Quebec wake up! *PIC*

Alabama Senate Votes to Ban Gas Chambers

Posted Mar 28, 2011 by lauraallen

Update April 14, 2011: The Alabama state Senate has voted 27-0 to pass a ban on use of carbon monoxide gas chambers to kill shelter dogs and cats!

The bill, S.B. 172, is now assigned to a House of Representatives committee, the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry.

Find Committee members here. (Just click on their names for contact info.) Write (faxes or letters are best) or call and urge them to vote yes on S.B. 172.

For more on this bill, read Animal Law Coalition's report below.

Original report: An Alabama bill that would require animal shelters to dismantle gas chambers is gathering a lot of support throughout the legislature.

The bill known as Beckham's Act, H. B. 147/S.B. 172 has more than 50 co-sponsors including Speaker of the House Mike Hubbard and the Senate President Pro Tempore Del Marsh.

Under the bill it would no longer be legal to use carbon monoxide gas chambers to kill dogs and cats. Instead, animals could only be euthanized by injection.

Beckham is the name of a dog, pictured here, who

survived a CO gassing

in Cullman County last January. The dog named Peaknuckle at the time was put into the gas chamber before a rescuer, Sonya Graham, could get to the shelter to take him home.

But he was found alive, and Graham took him home, renaming him Beckham.

The Alabama bill follows successful efforts in recent years in other states to stop the use of CO gas chambers to kill shelter animals.

WHAT YOU CAN DO

Advocates rallied recently in support of Beckham's Act at the Alabama Capitol in Montgomery. There is growing support to require animal shelters to dismantle CO gas chambers and get rid of them. If you live in Alabama, find your state legislators here. Write (faxes or letters are best) or call and urge your state representative to support S.B. 172 known as Beckham's Act.

http://www.animallawcoalition.com/gas-chambers/article/1658

CO Gas Chambers Continue to Mean Cruelty and Danger in NC Sheltershttp://www.animallawcoalition.com/gas-chambers/article/1592

One More Ohio County Chooses Humane Euthanasia Over CO Gas
http://www.animallawcoalition.com/gas-chambers/article/1591

Call On The AVMA To Condemn The Use Of Animal Gas Chambers
http://www.animallawcoalition.com/gas-chambers/article/43

More States Taking on Gas Chambers
http://www.animallawcoalition.com/gas-chambers/article/729

AND OTHER ARTICLES HERE http://www.animallawcoalition.com/gas-chambers

YET QUEBEC IN CANADA GIVES GREEN LIGHT TO USE THE GASS CHAMBER

http://www.animaladvocates.com/cgi-bin/watchdog.pl?page=1;md=read;id=14394

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