"Angels Unaware"

"Angels Unaware"
DOGS THROWN INTO GASSING BOX BEFORE LID IS LOCKED

Monday, February 15, 2010

Letter to the Editor about Florence, Alabama Animal Facility Gassing Animals

Most dogs like these above haven't any chance to escape their undeserved death in a public animal facility. Routine killing of abandoned pets - unforgivable! So what would you call "gassing" innocent animals until their lungs burst; intentional torture of helpless animals has no place in Alabama.
READ THE LETTER TO THE EDITOR BELOW - FROM A CONCERNED CITIZEN IN FLORENCE, AL RE: FLORENCE-LAUDERDALE ANIMAL CONTROL, A GASSING FACILITY in ALABAMA. 


The Courier Journal is located at 1828 Darby Drive, Florence, Alabama.
Published: 01-26-2010

Appalling Pet Death Practice

Editor:

Are we doing enough to save our animals from the inhumane gas chamber? Many states are outlawing this old method of killing innocent pets. Everyday shelters (yes the ones here in the Shoals) are gassing to death innocent loving dogs and cats while you eat your lunch. A lot of people think they just go to sleep, wrong! They cram poor undeserving animals into a metal cage and roll them into the gas chamber.

These animals are horrified, sceaming, fighting and crying for help. Then they turn on the gas and the animals slowly suffocate, panicking and gasping for air. Some people say the gas burns their eyes and lungs causing the animals to look as though they are crying. If the animal survives, the procedure is repeated. If you think you can stomach watching this, you can see this on YouTube. Do you also think this is cruel?

The Supreme Court ruled that the gas chamber is inhumane for murderers and child rapists, yet we use this on our beloved pets. Can we stand before our maker with this shame on our shoulders? Do you think this is right? Would you take your animals to a shelter?

You can change the laws, only you can make a difference. Please contact your local and state goverments and let them know that we taxpayers are no longer going to stand for the cruel killings of innocent pets.

Until we get the laws changed, here are some things you can do. Never ever take a animal to the shelter. If the animal is sick, injured or old they usually take them straight back to death row. Don't think just because its a puppy or purebred they won't kill them. Eighty percent of animals taken to the shelter are killed. Place your own pets. Take out a newspaper ad or contact a rescue. Adopt only from shelters and rescues. Save a life. Buying dogs only encourages breeding, which results in more animals being gassed. Be a responsible pet owner and have your pet spayed or neutered. They say a dog is man’s best friend, but I hardly think man is a dog’s best friend.
Joe Swinea
Florence

RESPONSE FROM ANIMAL FACILITY/LETTER TO EDITOR:
We Love Every Animal Here


Published: 02-09-2010
To the Editor:

This is a response to the letter you published January 27, (Appalling Pet Death Practice). I have been an Animal Control Officer for almost nine years now and I love my job. It is very rewarding when we find homes for animals after they have been brought to us, whether they are ten years and older or just new puppies coming in. We do our best to find homes for these angels that no one wants any longer. Some have even been owned for years and then abandoned.

I think anyone who has a pet should treat it like they would their child. I know many of you don’t like what we do. Well, we don’t either. I put all the blame on the public for not being more responsible for your pets. Because if owners would take more responsibility and have pets spayed and neutered, we would not be put in this position.

Every animal that comes through our doors is welcomed with loving arms. There are only five of us that work at my shelter, and we are all big animal lovers. In our eyes every animal no matter how big or small deserves a chance at a good home. Pet owners need to step up and do their part to eliminate the gassing of so many unwanted pets. We are a public shelter and cannot turn anyone in our county away, but our shelter can only hold so many at one time. We also need foster homes for our animals so they don’t have to stay in the shelter long.

I would like to take this opportunity to invite you out to the shelter for a visit to get to know us.
Tammy Green
Animal Control Officer



 
 


3 comments:

  1. no follow up letters to support Mr.Swinea,???? curious. don't other people in this area find gassing poor animals unacceptble enough to write a xxxxing letter. Guess not. no wonder gassing dogs and cats goes on in that facility. residents must accept it without a word of protest. very disappointing - AC sure had alot to say.

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  2. If this were happening to humans, people would damn well step up and shout!! Why the hell not animals? the torture is horrific! Unless we FORCE it in peoples faces, they'll go about their merry way as if nothing like this goes on....Out of sight, out of mind! BRING IT TO THE FRONT!

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  3. Thanks for your comments. I am as baffled as you, as to why no one in these "gassing" communities don't speak out, at least back up the brave resident who did write a letter to Editor in protest of the gassing in Colbert Animal Control Facility. Not a peep! That is except from Animal Control. Who will speak for the animals in this community??? That is the quetion.

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