Did you know that more than 250,000 cats and dogs are killed in the gas chamber every year in North Carolina alone?
The gas chamber is a box that is filled with animals small, and large, young and old, healthy and sick, and even pregnant bitches and puppies they then close the top and pump carbon monoxide into this box for 10 minutes or more. This is a long and VERY INHUMANE way to have an animal die. More than 30 NC county and city shelters are still using gas chambers and other inhumane methods to destroy unwanted animals. These innocent pets suffer in their last moments, gasping for breath and wailing until they finally succomb to poisonous carbon monoxide. You pay the bill, and you have the right to demand change.
There is a video below and some pictures, I will warn you the content is disturbing but it is reality.
Please adopt your next pet from a kill shelter and save one of these animals from a death like this. Visit http://Petfinder.com to find pets for adoption in your area. Some shelters have as few as 10 kennels for an entire county animal control facility, and bring in hundreds of animals each week. It is a tragedy every day, all over our state. The animals need you!
If you would like to know more about how to help with this cause please put your contact information below and I will send you some information on how to help.
I want to thank the NCCHE for allowing me to use some of their images and information to make this page possible. To view their website please CLICK HERE
PLEASE SPAY OR NEUTER YOUR PETS!!!
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Davie, the dog pictured, survived the gas chamber at Davie County Animal Control in Mocksville, North Carolina in 2005. While Davie was knocked unconscious, he did not inhale enough gas to be fatal. He was found near death in a plastic bag in a dumpster, after being assumed dead and discarded by the shelter. A citizen found him while taking out her trash. Davie is now a happy member of her family.
Carbon monoxide is the most commonly used gas for killing in NC animal shelters. Carbon Monoxide poisoning from malfunctioning gas chambers, even at low levels, can cause many health problems for employees who are exposed. A Tennessee shelter worker was asphyxiated to death while unloading dead dogs from a gas chamber, after being exposed to carbon monoxide. In another instance, a gas chamber exploded in North Carolina when a broken light bulb was exposed to the gas. Recent documentation warns that gas chambers STILL IN USE can be an immediate danger to loss of life for animal control personnel.
FOUR government employees who operated gas chambers on a regular basis have died in recent years from heart and lung problems which could be related to exposure to carbon monoxide. Three of those gas chambers had never been formally inspected for leaks prior to their deaths. Will it take the death of another government employee to make it stop? How ironic that tax dollars pay for machines that could kill the people operating them.
It is a shame that there is not a loving home available for every animal in North Carolina. We encourage you to spay or neuter your pets to keep overpopulation under control, and to adopt your next pet from a kill shelter. The innocent unwanted should not have to die in such a gruesome way.
Whether unwanted animals die cruelly or compassionately is up to you. Your taxes are funding it! Please contact your county commissioners and ask for changes.
