Animal shelter pushed to change killing method
Animal-rights group, residents object to use of carbon monoxide
GERMANTON (Winston-Salem Journal) - Residents and a statewide animal-rights group are pushing Stokes County to change the way it euthanizes animals at its shelter.
The Stokes animal shelter uses carbon monoxide to euthanize animals. In that process, two animal-control officers put animals into a carbon-monoxide chamber, which is on the back of a small dump truck.
The officers then turn on a carbon-monoxide tank until the animals are unconscious, according to the county’s animal-control ordinance. The gas is then turned off for 15 minutes, after which the officers check the animals to make sure that they are dead, then dispose of them.
GERMANTON (Winston-Salem Journal) - Residents and a statewide animal-rights group are pushing Stokes County to change the way it euthanizes animals at its shelter.
The Stokes animal shelter uses carbon monoxide to euthanize animals. In that process, two animal-control officers put animals into a carbon-monoxide chamber, which is on the back of a small dump truck.
The officers then turn on a carbon-monoxide tank until the animals are unconscious, according to the county’s animal-control ordinance. The gas is then turned off for 15 minutes, after which the officers check the animals to make sure that they are dead, then dispose of them.
posted by BP News Bureau | 8:30 PM
1 Comments:
Ok, so what is the alternative?
I can't tell if it is just the fact that Lisa is a terrible reporter or that the animal advocates have just objected to carbon monoxide without offering an alternative. Either way, someone needs to pull their head out of their butt.
About 20 years ago, the Stokes shelter made the local news when a couple went in to look for a pet to adopt and discovered a county employee out back bashing in puppies' heads with a hammer. All things considered, carbon monoxide seems rather mild in comparison.
Stokes County is practically awash in stray dogs and cats. As I said before, the solution is to hold people responsible for their pets. Charge them $10,000 per puppy or kitten that they allow their un-neutered pets to spawn and then turn loose. However, in the end, the county has no business being in the stray pet babysitting business. The shelter is as big as it needs to be and the methods they use for clearing the shelter are as humane as they can practically be.
It is unfortunate, but then so is much of life and reality.
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