Ban the Carbon Monoxide Gas Chamber for Euthanasia of Companion Animals in Macon, Georgia

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Macon City Council

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Georgia banned most animal gas chambers in 1990. Macon continues to use a gas chamber under one of the few exceptions. Gas chambers are a cruel and outdated method of euthanasia of animals. Lethal injection is a much more humane, less expensive alternative.

Gas chambers also place shelter workers at risk of CO poisoning when they load and unload or clean the gas chamber, breathing in low levels of the gas on a regular basis. In Tennessee, a shelter worker died from CO poisoning from the gas chamber. As a result, Tennessee has banned the use of gas chambers.

The use of the gas chamber causes great psychological suffering for many shelter workers. Animals do not lose consciousness or die until there is a build up of the CO gas in their lungs. Shelter workers have documented that until that build up happens, they hear the piercing cries, howling, frantic calls, scratching and panic of animals. It is not uncommon for shelter workers to have to gas some animals a second time.

Less than 1% of shelters in the U.S. still use the outmoded gas chamber.

Please sign the petition to ban the use of gas chambers in Macon, Georgia.

Less than 1% of shelters in the U.S. still use the outmoded gas chamber.

Please sign the petition to ban the use of gas chambers in Macon, Georgia.

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We signed the "Ban the Carbon Monoxide Gas Chamber for Euthanasia of Companion Animals in Macon, Georgia" petition!

# 2,220:

4:28 am PDT, Aug 20, Celine Bahlinger, France

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11:23 pm PDT, Aug 18, Susan Halloran, Virginia

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4:39 pm PDT, Aug 17, Ana D. Cruz, New York

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2:14 pm PDT, Aug 17, Susie Holman, United Kingdom

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8:23 am PDT, Aug 17, Bill McGlone, Connecticut

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11:14 am PDT, Aug 16, Angela Rhodes, Greece

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3:45 am PDT, Aug 16, Margrith Hemmi, Switzerland
Prevention !!! But surely no Gassing in any case.

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7:20 pm PDT, Aug 15, Marjorie Jonasson, New Jersey

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6:37 pm PDT, Aug 15, Eleni Michaels, Australia

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5:44 pm PDT, Aug 15, Roberto Angarita Vargas, Colombia

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4:50 pm PDT, Aug 15, Mick Gill, Australia

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9:20 am PDT, Aug 15, Marena Chen, Malaysia

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9:09 am PDT, Aug 15, Isabella Hillmayr, Greece

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8:58 am PDT, Aug 15, Laura - Elena Doltu, Romania

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8:26 am PDT, Aug 15, Anne Thompson, United Kingdom

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8:16 am PDT, Aug 15, John Peterson, Oregon

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8:02 am PDT, Aug 15, Linda Mira-Bateman, Australia

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7:14 am PDT, Aug 15, Marion Geromin, Germany

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4:37 am PDT, Aug 15, Stephanie Colson, Oklahoma

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4:01 am PDT, Aug 15, Christine - Pals with Pawz, Tennessee

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3:44 am PDT, Aug 15, Maria Oniga, Romania

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1:34 am PDT, Aug 15, ROBIN MCKAY, Kentucky

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12:16 am PDT, Aug 15, Monika V, France

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10:17 pm PDT, Aug 14, Nagy Nicoleta andrea, Romania

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7:40 pm PDT, Aug 14, Debra Libby, Florida
This is absolutley inhumane and unnecessary!!!!!!!!!! This is outlawed in most states due to it's negative reaction from compassion citizens and will discredit this community of any humane and remotely compassionate feelings towards these animals dieing a slow death.

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3:35 pm PDT, Aug 14, Nancy Billings, Maryland
This needs to STOP - It is TORTURE - BARBARIC & CRUEL - Anyone who can do this to an innocent animal needs to have it done to them because they have NO HEART and are a danger to ALL innocents both animal & human !

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9:26 am PDT, Aug 14, Sarah Johnson, Texas

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8:45 am PDT, Aug 14, Amanda Jardanowski, Wisconsin
I can't believe that you would allow this to happen, this is the most horrible thing I have ever heard! This needs to stop!!

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7:48 pm PDT, Aug 13, Suzanne McColl, North Carolina

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7:30 pm PDT, Aug 13, Karleen Corbeg, Wisconsin

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5:15 pm PDT, Aug 7, Ignacio Galindo Ramirez, Mexico

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2:10 pm PDT, Jul 30, John Wray, Arkansas
every 2 seconds, an animal is euthanised in the US. There is no breakdown by method, but I want to gas owners of gassing shelters up the ass.

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11:39 am PDT, Jul 28, Trina Hogge, Utah

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5:40 pm PDT, Jul 26, Sky Williamson, Georgia
We as a nation have to stop animal cruelty. The gas chamber is cruel and inhumane.....

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1:44 pm PDT, Jul 20, Greta Malkotzoglou, Greece

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12:08 pm PDT, Jul 16, Carlos L�pez S�nchez, Mexico

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12:07 pm PDT, Jul 16, Rosa Mar�a Gal�n Estrada, Mexico

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12:06 pm PDT, Jul 16, Mariana L�pez Gal�n, Mexico

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7:45 am PDT, Jul 14, Amanda Tessneer, North Carolina

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10:01 pm PDT, Jul 10, Julia VanBuren, North Carolina

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8:29 am PDT, Jul 10, Gale Jusrus, North Carolina

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4:47 am PDT, Jul 10, Name not displayed, North Carolina

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4:37 am PDT, Jul 10, Lisa Leal, North Carolina

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4:36 am PDT, Jul 10, Jann Pittman, North Carolina
Please stop this horrible, horrible procedure. It is barbaric and outdated.

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2:14 pm PDT, Jul 8, Jamie Sprague, Georgia

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5:52 am PDT, Jul 8, JESSICA SPRADLIN, Georgia

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12:50 pm PDT, Jul 6, Laurene Torrez, California
For all that our pets give us, they deserve a humane ending to their lives. Let's end this outrageous cruelty to animals in general.

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11:43 am PDT, Jul 1, Elena Gageanu, Romania

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10:49 pm PDT, Jun 29, Jessica Willhite, Minnesota
This has to stop! Companion animals give us so much unconditional love and deserve a humane euthanasia! It is like gassing a human child, they do not have a voice for themselves. We have to be the voice for them!

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8:29 am PDT, Jun 21, Marianne Warren, Virginia
It's time to evolve

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8:00 am PDT, Jun 19, Lauren Knappenberger, Georgia
It is unreal to me that Macon continues to use this barbaric, inhumane method of euthanasia. I understand the reasons for euthanizing these animals, but if we must end our lives at our hands, couldn't we at least do so humanely. If anyone else had killed an animal with this method, it would be considered animal cruelty, what a double standard!

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3:26 pm PDT, Jun 18, Name not displayed, Georgia

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6:18 am PDT, Jun 17, Dale Bridges, Georgia
Please stop gasing the animals in Macon. If they had a home they would be a loved family pet. Please have compassion for them. Thank You-

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11:16 pm PDT, Jun 16, Paula Anselmo, Virginia
Please stop this inhumane treatment of animals. The world gasped in dis-belief when they found out about Hitler's gas camps. Are the feeling and dignity of animals so different?

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8:16 pm PDT, Jun 16, Allison Davis, Georgia
This is an old and not always effective way to deal with pet overpopulation....it is cruel and frightening for the animals. Please, help send the message to other Georgia shelters that this archaic method needs to end.

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7:01 pm PDT, Jun 16, RUTH POLK, Georgia
STOP USING THE GAS CHAMBER!

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12:20 pm PDT, Jun 16, Brian Roberts, New Jersey

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11:59 am PDT, Jun 16, Name not displayed, New Jersey

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10:38 am PDT, Jun 16, Jennie Dixon, Georgia
Surely Mr. Richert has a heart and will put an end to the cruel suffering of these animals. Or??? Maybe he doesn't care and just likes seeing himself on t.v. every evening speaking to the news.

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9:51 am PDT, Jun 16, BONNIE COWLES, Georgia
Please think about how horrific it is to die by poisonous gas. These animals are the innocent. Show some compassion and humanity.

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9:04 am PDT, Jun 16, Barbara MacLaine, Ohio
We use letal injection which is a more humane alternative. PLEASE stop using the gas chamber. HAVE A HEART!!!!!!!

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9:02 am PDT, Jun 16, Cheryl Taylor, Georgia
The animals beg you...please stop with the gas chamber, if the MUST die please due it humanly

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8:56 am PDT, Jun 16, PEGGY MERRILL, Georgia
PLEASE STOP THIS VERY CRUEL AND UNHUMANE PRACTICE. OUR POOR UNWANTED, UNCARED FOR COMPANION FRIENDS CERTAINLY DESERVE BETTER THAN THIS. STOP THE GAS CHAMBER ONCE AND FOR ALL !

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8:51 am PDT, Jun 16, Karen Robertson, Georgia
Please... it is inhumane that we still consider it our duty not only to "dispose" of living creatures but to do so in such a brutal and painful manner. If we are to move forward as a society, one of the first steps MUST be the setting aside of such barbaric principles.

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8:37 am PDT, Jun 16, Ginger Martin-Moore, Georgia

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8:05 am PDT, Jun 16, Nancy elizabeth Green, South Carolina
The act of suffocating by poisoning the blood stream, with noxious gas....Hold your breath, and dying will be easier. May the sound of crying, clawing, helpless creatures, haunt the legislators, who allow such horror!

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