CAN YOU IMAGINE BEING THROWN INTO A HUGE METAL BOX WITH A HALF DOZEN OF OTHER FOLKS, JUST THROWN IN ON TOP OF ONE ANOTHER AND HAVING THE LID CLOSED. IN TOTAL DARKNESS YOU'RE SCARED AND YOU CAN HEAR THE WHIMPERING AND CRYING OUT OF THE OTHERS IN THE BOX. "WHAT IS GOING ON ?, WHY ARE WE IN HERE?". THEN YOU ALL START TO COUGH AND CHOKE, THERE IS NO AIR TO BREATHE, YOUR LUNGS FEEL LIKE THEY WILL BURST ANY SECOND. YOUR EYES AND NOSE ARE RUNNING AND YOU LOSE CONTROL OF ALL BODILY FUNCTIONS. THE STENCH IS UNBEARABLE AND THE SCREAMS AND CRIES ARE EAR SHATTERING. THEN IT STARTS TO GET QUIET, ONE BY ONE THE OTHERS STOP THEIR WIMPERING AND THOUGH DISORIENTED AND UNABLE TO MOVE YOU TRY TO MAKE SENSE OF WHAT IS GOING ON.....AND THEN THERE IS LIGHT, THE LID COMES UP AND HOPE RISES THAT WHATEVER HAPPENED IS ALL OVER AND IT'S TIME TO GET OUT OF HERE. BEFORE YOU CAN GET ORIENTED AND FIGURE OUT WHAT TOOK PLACE, ANOTHER SIX SQUIRMING AND WHIMPERING LIVE BODIES ARE TOSSED INTO THE BOX ON TOP OF YOU, THE LID CLOSES AGAIN AND THE HORROR CONTINUES. YOU'RE BARELY CONSCIOUS AND LOSE TRACK OF HOW MANY TIMES THIS PROCEDURE WAS PERFORMED BEFORE YOU FIND YOURSELF OUT IN THE LIGHT BEING STUFFED IN A HUGE PLASTIC BAG AND DISPOSED OF AT THE DUMP. YOU'RE TRYING TO MAKE NOISE, PLEADING THAT SOMEONE WILL REALIZE THAT YOU ARE STILL ALIVE BUT YOU CAN'T. YOU'RE TOO WEAK AND SUFFER NEUROLOGICAL DAMAGE FROM THE GAS. EVENTUALLY YOU DIE, SUFFERING TERRIBLY AMIDST A PILE OF DEAD BODIES.....AND YOUR LAST THOUGHT IS WHAT DID WE DO TO DESERVE THIS ? THE ANSWER IS NOTHING..........YOU DID NOTHING WRONG. YOU'RE PAYING FOR THE SELFISHNESS AND IRRESPONIBILITY OR HUMANS. EVERY YEAR COUNTLESS INNOCENT ANIMALS ARE PUT DOWN IN THIS CRUEL MANNER AND THEY SUFFER UNBELIEVABLE TORTURE.....THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE AND WE HAVE TO CHANGE THE LAWS. AS AN ARMY VETERAN I HAVE BEEN THROUGH A GAS CHAMBER ON A DOZEN DIFFERENT OCCASIONS. AS REGULAR TRAINING WE WERE REQUIRED TO STAY IN THE CHAMBER LONG ENOUGH TO SAY OUR NAME, RANK AND SERIAL NUMBER.........A TOTAL OF ABOUT 5 SECONDS. WE CAME OUT OF THAT CHAMBER VOMITTING, EVERY ORIFICE SPEWING FLUIDS. OUR SKIN, EVERY PORE IN OUR BODY BURNED. EVERY ONE OF US GAGGED AND CHOKED AND THOUGHT WE WOULD DIE......THE EFFECTS OF THIS LASTED FOR WHAT SEEMED LIKE FOREVER, AND WE THOUGHT THE SUFFERING WOULD NEVER STOP. THIS WAS 5 SECONDS AND WAS UNBEARABLE....THE GAS CHAMBER WAS MY BIGGEST FEAR WHILE SERVING MY COUNTRY. THE ANIMALS DON'T ALWAYS DIE FROM THE GAS, I KNOW PERSONALLY OF SEVERAL CASES WHERE PEOPLE HAVE FOUND LIVE DOGS IN THE BAGS AT THE DUMP. THESE DOGS ARE ALWAYS PERMANENTLY DISABLED FROM THE EFFECTS OF THE GAS. ALL ANIMALS DESERVE MORE THAN THIS AND WE AS CARETAKERS OWE THEM MORE. PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO SIGN THIS PETITION AND HELP CHANGE THE EUTHANASIA LAWS IN GASTON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA AND THE REST OF THE COUNTRY. Statistics: Gaston County, North Carolina gasses to death more animals than any other county in North Carolina. Last year, nearly 7,300 animals were gassed to death in groups at Gaston County Animal Control.
CAN YOU IMAGINE BEING THROWN INTO A HUGE METAL BOX WITH A HALF DOZEN OF OTHER FOLKS, JUST THROWN IN ON TOP OF ONE ANOTHER AND HAVING THE LID CLOSED. IN TOTAL DARKNESS YOU'RE SCARED AND YOU CAN HEAR THE WHIMPERING AND CRYING OUT OF THE OTHERS IN THE BOX. "WHAT IS GOING ON ?, WHY ARE WE IN HERE?". THEN YOU ALL START TO COUGH AND CHOKE, THERE IS NO AIR TO BREATHE, YOUR LUNGS FEEL LIKE THEY WILL BURST ANY SECOND. YOUR EYES AND NOSE ARE RUNNING AND YOU LOSE CONTROL OF ALL BODILY FUNCTIONS. THE STENCH IS UNBEARABLE AND THE SCREAMS AND CRIES ARE EAR SHATTERING. THEN IT STARTS TO GET QUIET, ONE BY ONE THE OTHERS STOP THEIR WIMPERING AND THOUGH DISORIENTED AND UNABLE TO MOVE YOU TRY TO MAKE SENSE OF WHAT IS GOING ON.....AND THEN THERE IS LIGHT, THE LID COMES UP AND HOPE RISES THAT WHATEVER HAPPENED IS ALL OVER AND IT'S TIME TO GET OUT OF HERE. BEFORE YOU CAN GET ORIENTED AND FIGURE OUT WHAT TOOK PLACE, ANOTHER SIX SQUIRMING AND WHIMPERING LIVE BODIES ARE TOSSED INTO THE BOX ON TOP OF YOU, THE LID CLOSES AGAIN AND THE HORROR CONTINUES. YOU'RE BARELY CONSCIOUS AND LOSE TRACK OF HOW MANY TIMES THIS PROCEDURE WAS PERFORMED BEFORE YOU FIND YOURSELF OUT IN THE LIGHT BEING STUFFED IN A HUGE PLASTIC BAG AND DISPOSED OF AT THE DUMP. YOU'RE TRYING TO MAKE NOISE, PLEADING THAT SOMEONE WILL REALIZE THAT YOU ARE STILL ALIVE BUT YOU CAN'T. YOU'RE TOO WEAK AND SUFFER NEUROLOGICAL DAMAGE FROM THE GAS. EVENTUALLY YOU DIE, SUFFERING TERRIBLY AMIDST A PILE OF DEAD BODIES.....AND YOUR LAST THOUGHT IS WHAT DID WE DO TO DESERVE THIS ? THE ANSWER IS NOTHING..........YOU DID NOTHING WRONG. YOU'RE PAYING FOR THE SELFISHNESS AND IRRESPONIBILITY OR HUMANS. EVERY YEAR COUNTLESS INNOCENT ANIMALS ARE PUT DOWN IN THIS CRUEL MANNER AND THEY SUFFER UNBELIEVABLE TORTURE.....THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE AND WE HAVE TO CHANGE THE LAWS. AS AN ARMY VETERAN I HAVE BEEN THROUGH A GAS CHAMBER ON A DOZEN DIFFERENT OCCASIONS. AS REGULAR TRAINING WE WERE REQUIRED TO STAY IN THE CHAMBER LONG ENOUGH TO SAY OUR NAME, RANK AND SERIAL NUMBER.........A TOTAL OF ABOUT 5 SECONDS. WE CAME OUT OF THAT CHAMBER VOMITTING, EVERY ORIFICE SPEWING FLUIDS. OUR SKIN, EVERY PORE IN OUR BODY BURNED. EVERY ONE OF US GAGGED AND CHOKED AND THOUGHT WE WOULD DIE......THE EFFECTS OF THIS LASTED FOR WHAT SEEMED LIKE FOREVER, AND WE THOUGHT THE SUFFERING WOULD NEVER STOP. THIS WAS 5 SECONDS AND WAS UNBEARABLE....THE GAS CHAMBER WAS MY BIGGEST FEAR WHILE SERVING MY COUNTRY. THE ANIMALS DON'T ALWAYS DIE FROM THE GAS, I KNOW PERSONALLY OF SEVERAL CASES WHERE PEOPLE HAVE FOUND LIVE DOGS IN THE BAGS AT THE DUMP. THESE DOGS ARE ALWAYS PERMANENTLY DISABLED FROM THE EFFECTS OF THE GAS. ALL ANIMALS DESERVE MORE THAN THIS AND WE AS CARETAKERS OWE THEM MORE. PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO SIGN THIS PETITION AND HELP CHANGE THE EUTHANASIA LAWS IN GASTON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA AND THE REST OF THE COUNTRY. Statistics: Gaston County, North Carolina gasses to death more animals than any other county in North Carolina. Last year, nearly 7,300 animals were gassed to death in groups at Gaston County Animal Control.
We signed the "STOP GASSING ANIMALS IN NORTH CAROLINA" petition!
# 2,891:
6:56 pm PDT, Aug 29,Jennifer Tsokanos, New Jersey
I just recently became aware of the gasing policies in North Carolina and I nearly died. I absolutely could not believe that this was happening. I understand that there is an overpopulation of dogs and cats, but I can not understand why a more humane method cannot be implemented. I understand that there are other more serious and important issues in our country, but dogs and cats offer an unconditional love to humans that no one else can give. They deserve to die peacefully and quietly, not horribly. I am hundreds of miles away from North Carolina but I cry every Fri. for the animals that I know have died a horrible death. Please reconsider these methods, there are better ways and there is no reason why they cannot be put in place in your state. There are people who care. Don't let this continue another minute.
# 2,890:
4:01 pm PDT, Aug 29,Name not displayed, Nevada
# 2,889:
11:20 am PDT, Aug 29,Natasha Bacallao, North Carolina
# 2,888:
11:09 am PDT, Aug 29,Name not displayed, Georgia
Humane treatment for our 4 legged friends
# 2,887:
9:51 am PDT, Aug 29,Lisa Mertz, Pennsylvania
# 2,886:
7:39 am PDT, Aug 29,Bebe Gallo, Connecticut
# 2,885:
6:33 am PDT, Aug 29,Ben Howe, North Carolina
# 2,884:
6:32 am PDT, Aug 29,Bobby Gene Tummolo, New York
Gassing is archaic and MUST be stopped! I thought we all learned that lesson from WWII but it seems we haven't, at least not for our beloved animals who TRUST us for their well-being!!!!!! I am appalled!!!!!!!!!!!!
# 2,883:
6:01 am PDT, Aug 29,Denise Seiffer, Connecticut
# 2,882:
5:36 am PDT, Aug 29,Laurie Cooper, Connecticut
# 2,881:
3:58 am PDT, Aug 29,Kim Palmer, Maryland
Inhumane treatment must stop. This is the United States not China
# 2,880:
12:15 am PDT, Aug 29,Andrew Connelly, Maryland
This treatment of animals is horrific. I wish I was in a better position to help these animals. Everyone who can help in any way should try to. helpsaveone.org and similar organizations do all they can to save these animals but they need more help. This behavior is downright inhumane and needs to stop.
# 2,879:
6:41 pm PDT, Aug 28,Linda Mataya, North Carolina
I have spent over 35 years rescuing/spaying or neutering/ and adopting animals to good homes. Killing animals with no homes will end if we make spay and neutering of domestic dogs and cats mandatory everywhere and create NO COST clinics for low income families.
Gassing animals is the same horrible thing HITLER did in Germany ... it teaches young innocent minds that this is ok...and it is anything but ok. STOP GASSING NOW and FOREVER ! ! ! Thank you for listening.
# 2,878:
6:37 pm PDT, Aug 28,Renee Toneske, North Carolina
Stop gassing animals! It is Cruel - these animals didn't do anything to deserve this - Lets demand spay and neuter!
# 2,877:
5:48 pm PDT, Aug 28,Carol Altermatt, Connecticut
PLEASE...STOP DOING THIS! THIS IS SO INHUMANE....PLEASE, IF IT HAS TO BE DONE AT ALL, JUST GIVE THESE POOR ANIMALS A NEEDLE SO THEY GO QUICK AND IN PEACE...DONT LET THEM CONTINUE TO BE SCARED AND DIE LIKE THIS...THIS IS SO DISCOURAGING THAT AMERICA TREATS ANIMALS LIKE THIS...
# 2,876:
4:03 pm PDT, Aug 28,Yogi Bear, Michigan
Hey boo boo - I'm talking to to you!
# 2,875:
4:00 pm PDT, Aug 28,Robbin Pugliese, Connecticut
DISGUSTING !!!
# 2,874:
3:05 pm PDT, Aug 28,Davina Sewkumar, New York
You wouldn't want this to happen to you!
# 2,873:
1:54 pm PDT, Aug 28,Name not displayed, Virginia
We have seen animals that have lived through this horror. We have cried as the vet tells us all the damage surviving this evil has caused. There is a better way if it must be done; a more humane way. Gassing is not the answer.
# 2,872:
1:50 pm PDT, Aug 28,Name not displayed, North Carolina
# 2,871:
1:42 pm PDT, Aug 28,Venessa Dasrath, Florida
Please Stop. Please, please STOP. It's horrible that procedures like this have to take place because of the over population of unwanted puppies, kittens, dogs and cats, however the horror does not have to go beyond the extent of human compassion for these living creatures. Any living creature experiencing the feeling of "not being wanted" maybe all their life, should not have its life ended by litterally having its life sucked out of them. We as humans have evolved in so many ways, and it's time North Carolina realizes that there's other ways of figuring out answers to a sad problem.
# 2,870:
1:27 pm PDT, Aug 28,Jilll Scekeres, North Carolina
# 2,869:
1:24 pm PDT, Aug 28,Richard Jimenez, Florida
What manner of beast ARE you? You fuckin MONSTERS. Stay CLEAR of me, because if you cross my path, YOU get locked in a box & gassed.
# 2,868:
1:21 pm PDT, Aug 28,Sonita Jimenez, Florida
Please stop making these poor animals suffer.
# 2,867:
1:19 pm PDT, Aug 28,Marshall Kiser, North Carolina
# 2,866:
1:18 pm PDT, Aug 28,Courtney Payne, North Carolina
# 2,865:
1:17 pm PDT, Aug 28,Indera Williams, North Carolina
This suffering must stop, no living creature deserves this horrible death.
# 2,864:
1:07 pm PDT, Aug 28,Krystal Breeland, North Carolina
In this day and age how sad...how sad that people are so evil and participate in such acts of evil everyday.
# 2,863:
1:05 pm PDT, Aug 28,Lindsay Berry, Maryland
How would you like to die in this cruel torturous manner? We are a very modern society so why are you killing poor innocent animals in such a BARBARIC MANNER!! Don't be cold hearted and cruel. Stop gassing these poor animals!!!!!!
# 2,862:
1:03 pm PDT, Aug 28,Tracy Gregg, North Carolina
# 2,861:
1:02 pm PDT, Aug 28,Joseph Lambert, North Carolina
Just plain cruel, shame on any legislators that support this cruelty
# 2,860:
1:01 pm PDT, Aug 28,Brandilyn Hensley, North Carolina
# 2,859:
12:49 pm PDT, Aug 28,Brenda Millard, North Carolina
# 2,858:
12:37 pm PDT, Aug 28,Name not displayed, North Carolina
# 2,857:
12:37 pm PDT, Aug 28,Daniel Clark, North Carolina
I had someone close to me die do to CO2 and would not want another living being to have to experience this. How can we be so inhumane to the poor defensless creatures when it is the humans that are the problem?? We would rather let them die and suffer in this maner in order to save a few bucks!! I as a tax payer demand that this barbaric method be stopped immediatly. Would you or a loved on want to die this way?? Think about it good and hard!
# 2,856:
12:28 pm PDT, Aug 28,Adrian Howe, North Carolina
# 2,855:
11:56 am PDT, Aug 28,De groof Gene, Belgium
# 2,854:
11:54 am PDT, Aug 28,Stordeur N, Belgium
# 2,853:
11:53 am PDT, Aug 28,Courtoy A, Belgium
# 2,852:
11:28 am PDT, Aug 28,Louisa Edwards, Pennsylvania
This is cruelty at its worst and it needs to be put to an end.