http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fYQHNH-GJY&feature=player_embedded#at=87
The dogs yelp and claw during gassing.
Ohio SPCA call this "BARBARIC AND INHUMANE".
Court action was taken.
Yay, one more gone, now if the BCSPCA (Canada) would take a stand to destroy the gas box being used on Vancouver Island in the Duncan, North Cowichan area by Coastal Animal Services.
Background (Preamble):
Coastal Animal Services Ltd has provided animal control services and pound facilities for North
Cowichan since 1975. It is time they stopped using the notorious and archaic gas box to destroy
unwanted cats, young and old as well as feral cats and kittens.
For years, animal control agencies and shelters have destroyed unwanted cats by asphyxiating them
to death with carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide gas in the gas box. Thankfully, many animal control
operators have now changed their euthanasia protocol by taking unwanted cats to veterinary clinics
for lethal injection, or by having animal shelter technicians perform the injection, which is much faster
and far more humane.
Warning - graphic description: I have seen what cats look like after being killed by gassing, it is a
gruesome sight. Cats and kittens are loaded into wire cages, which are then placed inside the gas box.
The lid is shut and the gas is turned on. Kittens, climb to the top of the inside of the wire cage and are
found dead with their paws sticking up through the top of the cage, their jaws tightly clamped down
on the wire. I have seen litters of kittens in with the mother cats. They died with their eyes wide open
while trying frantically to escape. The mother cats were slumped over, listening to their kittens dying
cries as they themselves were suffocated.
The person responsible for removing their bodies would have to pry their jaws open to get them off
the wire. Cats being gassed do not just fall peacefully asleep, as some pound operators who continue
to use gas will tell you.
Veterinarians provide a faster and less stressful means of euthanasia for unwanted felines whose lives must end all too soon. Unadoptable dogs from Coastal Animal Services are taken to a veterinary clinic
and euthanized there. Why not the cats as well?
The above taken from the petition that was in circulation.
CATS PROTEST CANADA’S CRUEL GASSING METHODS AND ASK CAT-LOVERS FOR A VOICE
http://www.dogkennelcrate.com/cats-protest-canadas-cruel-gassing-methods-and-ask-cat-lovers-for-a-voice.html
Animal lovers rally against 'gas box' to kill cats
http://www2.canada.com/nanaimodailynews/news/story.html?id=5e27c529-8a3c-408d-be77-15654704d7cc
Stop gas chamber euthanasia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzV0Bg7LZzQ&NR=1
GASSING DOGS TO DEATH This video has a different take. SENSITIVE CONTENT. From humans to dogs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4CsbUnevw0&feature=related