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Ban the Gas Chamber for Animals in Michigan!

Target: Michigan House
Sponsored by: American Humane Association

Michigan House Bill 4263, the Humane Euthanasia of Shelter Animals Act, and House Bill 4803 both would ensure that when the state's unwanted, sick or unadoptable shelter animals have to be euthanized, the procedure will only be done by injection of sodium pentobarbital. This method is called euthanasia by injection.

The American Humane Association considers euthanasia by injection to be the only acceptable and humane means of euthanasia for animals in animal shelters.

Even though a majority of the shelters in the state use euthanasia by injection, 10 still use outdated, inhumane gas chambers. Shelter workers overwhelmingly wish to hold and comfort a frightened animal in its final moments of life. That act may be the only kindness the animal has ever known.

In contrast, even with vigilant oversight, euthanizing any animal by means of a carbon monoxide or dioxide gas chamber is both severely inhumane to medium and large animals, and demoralizing to the workers who have to euthanize. Such outdated practices also create public outcry and demean the purpose of an animal shelter.

HB 4263 is sponsored by Rep. Rick Jones and was drafted by American Humane and the State Bar of Michigan Animal Law Section. And HB 4803 would amend the bill entitled, "Dog Law of 1919." Please sign today to support these bills.

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# 58,559:

5:11 pm PST, Nov 20, Gabriela Zambrana, Bolivia

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5:06 pm PST, Nov 20, Mitzi Koehl, North Carolina

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4:18 pm PST, Nov 20, Name not displayed, Sweden

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3:25 pm PST, Nov 20, Todd Fletcher, Illinois

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2:51 pm PST, Nov 20, Susan Miller, Florida

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2:25 pm PST, Nov 20, Paloma Aguirre, California

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1:55 pm PST, Nov 20, Charlene Bender, Nevada
It is bad enough that the animals are put down, but to torture animals in a gas chamber is something I would expect from a 3rd world county, not the US. Who is the sick individual that thought up and designed this gas chamber?

# 58,552:

1:48 pm PST, Nov 20, Leigh Foster, Kansas
Would you like to inhale a poison that kills you slowly? I didn't think so.....why would you put another living creature through that type of pain?

# 58,551:

1:34 pm PST, Nov 20, Joan E Loza Mobry, Wisconsin
"Animals Do Not Have A Voice Of Their Own. If We Do Not Stand Up And Speak For Them... Who Will?!"

# 58,550:

12:42 pm PST, Nov 20, Evelyn Harris, Arkansas
Ban the gas chamber. This is so inhumane to animals. Please Help these animals.

# 58,549:

12:25 pm PST, Nov 20, Chelsea Peacock, Washington

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12:25 pm PST, Nov 20, Alicia Aceves Estrada, Mexico

# 58,547:

12:14 pm PST, Nov 20, Jody Hawk, Ohio

# 58,546:

12:06 pm PST, Nov 20, Susana Lax, Florida
nooooo animal should be put down!!!!!

# 58,545:

12:01 pm PST, Nov 20, Mona Dunn, New York

# 58,544:

11:54 am PST, Nov 20, Kelly Burgette, Wisconsin

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11:42 am PST, Nov 20, Betty ann Lunger, Pennsylvania
nooooo animal should be put down!!!!!ever!!!!i bielieve in no killl shelters!!!!keeep the pet till it actually gets a home'if i ever get rich immm gonna open one!

# 58,542:

11:04 am PST, Nov 20, Christine Calderbank, Washington
we are the stewards of our animals we can afford to take care of them. money should be allotted to take care of all life. no shelter should kill, it is not the answer.

# 58,541:

10:45 am PST, Nov 20, Ruth S., Germany

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10:44 am PST, Nov 20, Melissa Johnson, Illinois

# 58,539:

10:08 am PST, Nov 20, Linda Löfgren, Sweden

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10:00 am PST, Nov 20, Shelagh Inglesby, Florida
This is barbaric and must be outlawed!

# 58,537:

9:27 am PST, Nov 20, Name not displayed, Pennsylvania

# 58,536:

8:51 am PST, Nov 20, Name not displayed, Kansas
Humane euthanasia is the only way to put an animal "out of its misery"! Using a gas chamber is immoral,&it's torture to animals. That must stop!

# 58,535:

8:29 am PST, Nov 20, Lindsey Wheelon, California

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8:02 am PST, Nov 20, Karen Templeman, Tennessee

# 58,533:

7:57 am PST, Nov 20, Stacia Chard, Colorado
Have you ever herd of spay or neuter. I think pet owners are the ones who are responsible for killing thousands of animals each year because they don't spay or nueter there pets or can't take care of ther pets. ban the gas chamber and injection and start a adoption program and spay or nueter program

# 58,532:

7:36 am PST, Nov 20, Adam Czerniak, Poland
I always try to help if I can.

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7:32 am PST, Nov 20, Name not displayed, Canada

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6:56 am PST, Nov 20, Name not displayed, Ohio

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6:30 am PST, Nov 20, Amanda Ready, Ohio

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6:10 am PST, Nov 20, Ingeborg Kooiman, Netherlands
Putting human beings to death this way is considered inhumane. Why would it be any other way for an innocent animal? Please grant both the the animals and the workers some comfort in those final moments!

# 58,527:

5:19 am PST, Nov 20, Robyn Barnes, North Carolina

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4:58 am PST, Nov 20, Suzanne Pell, Florida

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3:59 am PST, Nov 20, Harriet Thorneycroft, United Kingdom

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3:58 am PST, Nov 20, Soile Suanto, Finland

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3:41 am PST, Nov 20, Zani Roelofse, South Africa
Cruel, simply cruel.

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1:34 am PST, Nov 20, Yvette Quintana, Colorado
I do not believe that this is even going on or considered. DO your job....or get someone who can handle and control the problem of overpopulation. I can not fathom murdering innocent animals.. there has got to be a better way. Whom ever is in charge needs to step off their job and let someone who can take control of this issue at hand and save lives and gain control. AS far as I am concerned your fired.

# 58,521:

12:54 am PST, Nov 20, Name not displayed, Oregon
They need to go as peacefully as possible, how would you like it if you were gased to death? gulping for air over and over, becoming disorientated, going razy before dying, and then...when you think it is over...guess what...it didn't work, now the poor dog would have brain damage, is suffering and will have to go through BEING KILLED A SECOND TIME. Gas chambers ARE NOT the way to go.

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11:26 pm PST, Nov 19, Deanna Zimmerman, California

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8:58 pm PST, Nov 19, Name not displayed, Ohio

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8:32 pm PST, Nov 19, MICHELE VONSTAICH, California

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8:18 pm PST, Nov 19, TIM SHEEHAN, Ohio
ANY FORM OF DEATH SHOULD BE AS PEACEFUL AND HUMANE AS POSSIBLE.

# 58,516:

7:56 pm PST, Nov 19, Leslie Arno, Illinois
They shouldn't have to suffer while they are being put down. It's bad enough that they have to die.

# 58,515:

7:17 pm PST, Nov 19, Mariana Costa, New York
STOP WITH CRUELTY!

# 58,514:

6:56 pm PST, Nov 19, Sofia Goncalves, Portugal
This is murder!!

# 58,513:

6:52 pm PST, Nov 19, Ant Man, Ohio

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6:48 pm PST, Nov 19, Susan Birnbaum, New York

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6:44 pm PST, Nov 19, Debbie Patterson, Washington

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6:28 pm PST, Nov 19, Mary Gold, Pennsylvania
I am totally opposed to having to kill any animal - however - if it must be done there is absolutely no excuse for not doing it as humanely as possible. These gas chambers must be banned.

# 58,509:

6:18 pm PST, Nov 19, Ali Chuck, Canada

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6:17 pm PST, Nov 19, Gabriella Bevilacqua, Florida

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6:05 pm PST, Nov 19, Alexis Nagy, Canada

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6:04 pm PST, Nov 19, Sarah Innamorato, Florida

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5:41 pm PST, Nov 19, Name not displayed, Canada
give the animal their last moments to be in the arms of a human that cares. don't be cruel or careless about their emotions.

# 58,504:

5:38 pm PST, Nov 19, Paul Hester, Florida
Just for the record, we as a society "kill" this animals, not "euthanize". You don't euthanize healthy, loving animals!

# 58,503:

5:34 pm PST, Nov 19, Charlotte Goble, Michigan

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5:04 pm PST, Nov 19, Mandy Blue, Texas
This disgusting act of killing animals needs to stop...stop...stop.

# 58,501:

4:56 pm PST, Nov 19, Bharadwaja Phani kumar, India
Please do not use Gas Chambers. This is not humane

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