Gas Chamber explodes in Iredell County, NC.....

Maybe when some humans get hurt?

Where do they find people to do this job? There isn't enough money in the world that would be worth it to me.

Remember that post (Craigslist, I think it was) from a guy that worked in animal control and ran the gas chamber?  It was one of the saddest, sickest things I've ever read.

ETA:  found it

http://www.dogster.com/forums/Shelters_Rescue_and_Fostering/thread/540111 

There is a vidoe made a few years ago floating around on the internet......it was shot in Yadkin County, NC. A county with very little funds.....they were exposed and since then have changed to injection.

If you want to see the video I can provide a link.......they stacked these dogs in a freezer typed chamber.....not even emptying it and stacking more dogs on top of the dead ones......I was sick to my stomach.....

snownose

If you want to see the video I can provide a link.......

No thanks - I'm not generally a wuss about stuff, but when it comes to animals and hurting or killing them, it has a huge affect on me and for a very long time.

I assume anyone working at a shelter has a love of animals, so it's hard to imagine how they reconcile walking them one day and euthanizing them the next...and sleeping at night.

I realize that there's no way to provide longterm care for all the animals that end up in shelters, but these animals deserve to be euthanized in the most humane way possible. If it's a budgetary issue, then maybe they need to show some pics or videos of reality and let the public decide if they can live with that.

I remember the link for the video and I think I signed the petition to change to injection. And I read the link from Liesje. A dark angel. Even without the dramatic writing, it is still indicative of a problem at hand. I can fully believe a rural county conserving on gas and therefore overcrowding the chamber. And I can fully imagine the torment it must be to care for these animals and then have to kill them. And it could be avoided by spaying and neutering when possible and applicable. And it could also be avoidable if we could just get humans to quit thinking of dogs and cats as disposable items. My old toothbrush? Disposable. My old dryer? Disposable, probably recyclable. But a living creature, especially one that has grown to like me and we each are part of each others' lives? The gasser is not the evil one. It's the others that create the need for a job like his.

ETA:

Even a 1 % rise in city sales tax is worth paying for the increased cost of injection. Even the days of old, a .45 to the back of the head was more humane by virtue of being quicker and unseen.

ron2

The gasser is not the evil one. It's the others that create the need for a job like his.

ETA:

Even a 1 % rise in city sales tax is worth paying for the increased cost of injection. Even the days of old, a .45 to the back of the head was more humane by virtue of being quicker and unseen.

I completely agree on both comments. I don't think of the people who have to do this heartbreaking task as evil, I just personally can't imagine doing it myself.  

cakana

ron2

The gasser is not the evil one. It's the others that create the need for a job like his.

ETA:

Even a 1 % rise in city sales tax is worth paying for the increased cost of injection. Even the days of old, a .45 to the back of the head was more humane by virtue of being quicker and unseen.

I completely agree on both comments. I don't think of the people who have to do this heartbreaking task as evil, I just personally can't imagine doing it myself.  

 

Maybe not evil, but if every single one of them refused the job on the basis that it constitutes animal cruelty, maybe they'd have to go to injection at least.  I'd rather take welfare than do that job, and I would not stoop to it no matter if I was starving...

 MInd you there was just a bill that DID NOT pass to dismantle all the gas chambers in NC - article

I live in Wake County - the county of the capital and they just last month ceased using the gas chamber and dismantled it.  the only reason that happened is because the Wake SPCA made it their campaign and once the people of the are found out - the community went beserk and enough pressure was applied to stop it.

I know that people on this board are anti-spay neuter legislation - people that I respect so I am sure they have a better understanding than I do - because I would mandate it here.  Don't even have to think twice.  If you are a true breeder get a license to breed for each purebreed you want to breed or lose your dogs.

I am sick of the ads in the newspaper for 5 week old puppies and all the insane designer dogs.  And I do not have the words for how disgusted I am that in NC about 250, 000 animals are euthanized each year.

There is no one with any argument that will convince me that spay/neuter mandates aren't appropriate

^ You know how it is in this state.....a redneck and a couple of dogs male/female and there will be an add in some paper......or posted at a Lowes/ Food Lion grocery store......

snownose

There is a vidoe made a few years ago floating around on the internet......it was shot in Yadkin County, NC. A county with very little funds.....they were exposed and since then have changed to injection.

If you want to see the video I can provide a link.......they stacked these dogs in a freezer typed chamber.....not even emptying it and stacking more dogs on top of the dead ones......I was sick to my stomach.....

I saw this vedio.

I  force myself to watch video's,like this,so I "learn",and so I don't burst out crying everytime I see this sort of thing. Every video, doesn't make me cry ecept for one where a person skins up a husky.

Sad,it's a dog-eat-dog world out there.

kpwlee

I know that people on this board are anti-spay neuter legislation - people that I respect so I am sure they have a better understanding than I do - because I would mandate it here.  Don't even have to think twice.  If you are a true breeder get a license to breed for each purebreed you want to breed or lose your dogs.

Not me - I think that something needs to be done. I think that legislation can be written in a way that protects reputable breeders and working/show dogs. I felt the legislation that was written last year for Calif. would've been a good start and it had all the necessary exemptions, but apparently there's a lot of power & money on the opposing side. The bill has been gutted and amended so much now that I'm not sure what it does anymore.

The gas chambers seem beyond cruel to me, but I won't feel all warm and fuzzy knowing that dogs and cats are still being euthanized by the hundreds of thousands every day but in a more humane way.

I am not anti spay/neuter, I just see it more as a band aid.  In my experience at the animal shelter, most dogs were not brought in because there were too many, but they were mostly dumped by people who changed their mind, or didn't want to deal with a behavioral problem that they created, or the dog got sick and they couldn't afford to treat it. If spay/neuter is to be enforced, I would like to see that current laws are also enforced, like our leash laws and country registration requirements.  Also I'm worried about how the spay/neuter laws affect the people in the middle, not the pet owners or large scale breeders, but those who keep animals intact for other reasons and do so responsibly.  I know I'm a lot more responsible with my animals than some mothers in my neighborhood are with their human children.  People just need to learn to take responsibility, and I'm not convinced that's something that can be achieved with laws that will be difficult to enforce.

Here, dogs are required to be licensed and it already costs more to register an intact animal. 

Liesje

 In my experience at the animal shelter, most dogs were not brought in because there were too many, but they were mostly dumped by people who changed their mind, or didn't want to deal with a behavioral problem that they created, or the dog got sick and they couldn't afford to treat it.

Yes the dogs are brought in for that reason, but where did a good percentage of these people get their dogs...from backyard breeders or from their neighbors dogs, who were running around not neutered or spayed, or perhaps from the pet shop puppymill dogs. The dogs were just too easy to come by and that is why, I believe anyway, the carefree attitude about getting rid of them. Most of the dogs that are brought in to shelters, were not bought from reputable breeders. Or I really should say, none were bought from reputable breeders, as reputable breeders would not have sold the dogs to people that would just get rid of them a few months later. If they did make a mistake and sell to someone like that, they would be taking the dog back and it would not end up in the shelter. I would think that reputable breeders would be happy to pay a little more for dog licenses, in order that it may prevent some of these other people breeding their dogs. I too am one that believes in spay/neuter laws and believes that they will help. Yes we need education and this may just be a band aid but we need the band aid to heal the wound and then educate to prevent the problems in the first place.

These gas chambers are just completely unbelievable. However, when it comes to animals, cities, towns and villages are very reluctant to spend the money and or change the laws. The governmental bodies are only doing what they believe their taxpayers want and so please remember that and speak out for these things, as often as possible, and support the larger national animal welfare organizations that are fighting the problems.