by Mrs. Rogers

Created on: February 20, 2009

Animal activists have been working for years to get gas chambers removed as a way of euthanasia. They would like to see it outlawed because they say it is a cruel and inhumane way to put down an animal. Just because an animal has been abandoned it does not mean they should not be handled with the utmost respect we can give them.

In North Carolina eutnanasia is given primary by injection. Around half of the shelters and all use this method. But sadly there are many that still use the Co tanks and this is wrong. They sometimes revert to other means as well to kill these animals. There has been instances where animals were found in trash dumps, still clinging to life. And sometimes there has been other animals in plastic bags found still alive. If they had not been found, they would have suffered endlessly until dead. This is cruel, so cruel that it should be regulated by more laws, and rules.

There is no excuse for this and it should be stopped. Euthanasia prevents this from happening, if it is done humanely. If it is injected , it is more than likely going to stop the heart and it will be less painful than a death that comes from long suffering and demise. Hopefully a Law will be passed that would do away with gas chambers and require injections. This is a decent and compassionate method to give a pet owner, who cherishes and loves their pet, but knows that the pet will soon have or experience a tragic end, one that is filled with suffering, organ failure, whining and thrashing. It is important to pet owner for there to be a solution to the suffering that is inevitable to their loved pets. No owner likes to see or wants to experience this end of days, for their fatally sick pet.

Abandoned dogs should not suffer inhumanely because they are not loved by anyone. They should be treated fairly. After all it is not their fault they are at the end of their stay in a shelter. They just wanted to be loved. It would be tragic to see a animal that has suffocated in a trash bag, or been crushed in a dumpster, because the gas chamber did not thoroughly kill them. Are to hear of someone beating the animal out back behind the shelter, because they did not take time to properly exterminate the animal. This should not be seen or heard of.

Yes, euthanasia is the most sompassionate method of ending an animals life. Do we like it? No, but it is being respectful of God's creatures.

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