Especially for US citizens – this is your call ! –
Please, it is essential to actually watch the video on this link in addition to signing the petition. Click on the white arrowhead at the centre of the photograph to play the video.
Healthy dogs killed endlessly.
http://www.change.org/petitions/u-s-house-of-representatives-support-h-res-736-to-ban-use-of-gas-chambers-for-animal-euthanasia
Petitioning U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. House of Representatives: Support H. Res. 736 to Ban Use Of Gas Chambers for Animal Euthanasia
Congressman Jim Moran, Northern Virginia Democrat and co-chair of the Congressional Animal Protection Caucus has introduced a resolution, H. Res. 736, opposing the use of gas chambers to euthanize shelter animals.
WARNING: THE VIDEO IS INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT TO WATCH.
THOSE EDUCATED IN ANIMAL WELFARE DO NOT NEED TO WATCH THE VIDEO. IT IS ONLY PLACED HERE FOR THOSE WHO NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE URGENCY TO ABOLISH THIS CRUEL, INHUMANE PRACTICE.
The resolution calls for states to alternatively use established injectable euthanasia drugs and ensure that appropriate training and certification in these methods is widely available.
6,000,000 to 8,000,000 cats and dogs are placed into the care of between 4,000 to 6,000 local animal shelters each year in the United States. Nearly half of these animals are euthanized each year because adoptive homes are not able to be found for them.
For euthanasia to be considered humane, a technique must expeditiously cause painless unconsciousness, followed by respiratory then cardiac arrest, and ultimately death. Animals euthanized in gas chambers are often forced into confined areas with several other animals, causing unnecessary stress and aggressive behavior and can take over 30 minutes to end an animal’s life and sometimes does not result in the death of all the animals inside.
The use of gas chambers can cause a loss of consciousness and brain function in an animal only after the animal’s vital organs shut down, resulting in prolonged suffering and distress and old, pregnant, neonatal, and injured animals are often biologically unable to absorb the gas as readily as larger or healthier animals, which can prolong the stress and trauma they experience before death.
Our society is striving to become more humane in the treatment of our 4-legged friends. Your support of H.Res 736 will put an end to an old, outdated and barbaric practice that we can no longer tolerate in good conscience. Please support H. Res 736.
Video: Segment from One Nation Under Dog – HBO Films directed by Jenny Carchman, Ellen Goosenberg Kent, Amanda Micheli
Full text of H. Res. 736 here: http://bit.ly/OdI0sL
Like Congressman Jim Moran’s Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/RepJimMoran and thank him for getting this resolution before the U.S. House of Representatives for consideration.
Please share this with all your family and friends via e-mail, Facebook and Twitter. The more people we have backing Congressman Moran, the better.
Questions? You can reach me at www.facebook.com/davidrisley or www.twitter.com/drisley.
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