CATS PROTEST CANADA'S CRUEL GASSING METHODS AND ASK CAT-LOVERS FOR A VOICE

Just copy and paste these links into a new email:
mayor@duncan.ca,
ray.cadorette@shaw.ca,
tmduncan@shaw.ca,
paul@fletcherfoto.ca,
sej51@telus.net,
jthorne@shaw.ca,
jwinfrey@telus.net,
council@northcowichan.bc.ca,

For years, animal control agencies and shelters in Canada 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 pets 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 kittens were often found standing with their hind paws on the body of the mother cat as they tried to reach higher up for a pocket of oxygen. These poor creatures suffered horribly, dying in terror. The images haunt me to this day.

The person responsible for removing their bodies would have to pry their jaws open to get them off the cage wire. Cats being gassed do not just fall peacefully asleep, as some pound operators who continue to use gas will tell you.

Veterinarians and shelter technicians can provide a faster and less stressful means of euthanasia for unwanted cats whose lives must end all too soon. Sedation and Lethal injection is a proven fast and reliable method. Veterinarians do not euthanize pets by gas chamber in their clinics! There is a reason for this it is not a death that is fast nor peaceful. Clients would be horrified and disgusted to witness such a thing.




At some facilities dogs are now euthanized by lethal injection but cats are not offered this opportunity and are disposed of in the gas box. Just because the animals have no home, they should not suffer their last breath.


Euthanasia means a "good death". Sedation followed by injection of Sodium Pentobarbital is the humane method recommended. That's why we have our pets put to sleep that way, don't we? It's not their fault....we can do better than this. International humane organizations support EBI - Euthanasia By Injection.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• duncan cowichan canada
• lethal injection
• gas
• gas box
• inhumane
• animal abuse

[adembasou]

DONE! AND will repost widelly :) <3

[reckless1962]

Thanks you!

[adembasou]

what about the emails?? do you want us to write a protest letter to all those mails or what???

[reckless1962]

we would love that. Anita will be responding to your question shortly, as well.

[reckless1962]

for those of you who are asking why gas, please research San Antonio Texas gassing. Pleasel Googlel "Death by the Pound". It is one of the most comprehensive articles written about Gassing, and what it does to shelter employees. Then, get back with me with your thoughts!

[DeviousBetrayer]

Out of sight out of mind. Do you know how many injustice and suffering there is in this world? Many of them you don't even know about.

[twodogslater]

This issue is alive again in NOrth Cowichan. Coastal Animal services has said they will NO LONGER gas cats at their facility. They have asked the Municipality of North Cowichan to increase their contract by $5,000 per year to reflect the cost of humane euthanization. North Cowichan Council has refused..

[TITANS128900]

@carolmailhot i am an american protester over the no more gassing protest

[MrDjobrown]

@rabidchevy big deal let gas you up

[YouDontNeed2Knowxx]

i'm 14 years old, do you think i would still be legally allowed to write a protest letter? :)

[rabidchevy]

big deal gas em all

[darklight151]

Please respect life, we'er not to destroy it. Life is precious all living things are to live out their lives . How would you like to be gassed because there are to many people on this earth ?

[carolmailhot]

Hi Gisele

Are you referring to "The Animal's Saviour"?

Thanks!

Carol

[reckless1962]

Author is Jim Willis.