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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Even though a majority of the shelters in the state use euthanasia by injection, 10 still use outdated, inhumane gas chambers.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 Such outdated practices also create public outcry and demean the purpose of an animal shelter.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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We signed “Ban the Gas Chamber for Animals in Michigan!”

# 56,216:

9:16 pm PST, Nov 7, Crystal Lotus, Australia

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9:12 pm PST, Nov 7, Brian Edwards, Canada

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7:40 pm PST, Nov 7, Name not displayed, New York

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7:36 pm PST, Nov 7, Alexis Todd Darger, Utah

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7:33 pm PST, Nov 7, Vickie Turner, New York

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7:17 pm PST, Nov 7, Sharon Chan, Hong Kong

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7:09 pm PST, Nov 7, Gina Goodman Glassman, Pennsylvania

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7:06 pm PST, Nov 7, P Humphrey, Florida
Show respect even to the point of death for an animal - no to gas chambers, yes to better education for animal owners; in the way of free fix-in's, and if an animal has to be euthanasized - then please let us do it the correct way - by injection...For pity sake we have come a long way to know better...And Michigan of all places - I thougt they were quite bright up there!

# 56,208:

7:05 pm PST, Nov 7, Amy Schmidt, New Mexico

# 56,207:

7:02 pm PST, Nov 7, Name not displayed, Connecticut
Gassing animals to death is just plain cruel. Please follow the example of New York State, which just banned this barbaric practice, and start euthanizing unadoptable or unwanted shelter animals by injection. They at least deserve a little human kindness before they leave this world.

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6:46 pm PST, Nov 7, Name not displayed, Michigan

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6:30 pm PST, Nov 7, Ellen Meyer, Connecticut

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5:06 pm PST, Nov 7, Tamara Hammond, Canada
Animals have a right to die with and in peace...that is what we would wish for our human friends and family members. We speak for those that cannot do we not? Those Animal Shelters that are still using the 'old' methods...they do not have a heart. They do not hold their job with the motto of standing up for and protecting the animals that depend on them. God Bless those animals and may they have angels to help them through the inhumanity.

# 56,203:

5:00 pm PST, Nov 7, Frank Wheeler, Georgia

# 56,202:

4:58 pm PST, Nov 7, Vera Schreuders, Netherlands
stop met het doden van de honden !

# 56,201:

4:42 pm PST, Nov 7, MARCU CECILIA, Romania
ARE WE STILL HUMAN? WHY SO CRUEL TO THESE ANIMALS THAT HAVE NO GUILT TO LIVE ON THIS EARTH. AND THIS BECAUSE UPON A TIME GOD WANTED THAT MAN AND ANIMALS LIVE TOGETHER. NOWADAYS WE DO NOT ACCEPT GOD AND HIS WORK> ALL THIS WORLD. MAN DAMAGE THE AIR, THE WATERS, THE EARTH, HARM THESE INNOCENT CREATURES THAT FEEL PAIN LIKE US. STOP THEM !

# 56,200:

4:41 pm PST, Nov 7, Maura FitzGerald, California

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4:39 pm PST, Nov 7, Lynn Estes, Florida
It is past time that this country and the world get rid of gas chambers and heartstick barbarick means of murdering animals. Stop it NOW EVERYWHERE

# 56,198:

4:07 pm PST, Nov 7, Rosario Castellanos, New Jersey
This is my number 1 cause for Activism! I have organized many protets/rally all over the country! It is INHUMANE to GASSED an animal... Pl SPEAK up on their behalf..

# 56,197:

3:54 pm PST, Nov 7, Mike Downs, Missouri

# 56,196:

3:50 pm PST, Nov 7, Carolelorraine Sipos, California
This is barbaric......shame shame on them!!!

# 56,195:

3:46 pm PST, Nov 7, Sebastien Boudreau, Canada

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3:39 pm PST, Nov 7, Emi Daniel, Texas

# 56,193:

3:36 pm PST, Nov 7, Name not displayed, Tennessee
LIKE DR OZ SAYS, WE SHOULD BE JUDGED IN OUR SOCIETY BASED UPON HOW WE TREAT THE WEAKEST AMONG US, AND THAT COULD NOT APPLY MORE TO AN ANIMAL AT THE END OF A LIKELY HORRIFIC LIFE. PLEASE USE THE MANNER OF EUTHANASIA YOU WOULD WANT FOR YOURSELF AND/OR LOVED ONES!

# 56,192:

3:36 pm PST, Nov 7, Thomas Woodruff, Florida

# 56,191:

3:33 pm PST, Nov 7, Ngasha Beck, RN, Louisiana
Death by gas is a cruel and unusual punishment for innocents who were created to be our best friends, who feel pain and fear just as we do. Those who make laws must have compassion! May God have mercy on your souls. Mrs.Ngasha Beck, Registered Nurse

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3:22 pm PST, Nov 7, Name not displayed, Michigan

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3:17 pm PST, Nov 7, Tamra French, Illinois

# 56,188:

3:14 pm PST, Nov 7, Lauren Butler, Rhode Island

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3:13 pm PST, Nov 7, Joesph Marsala, Rhode Island
Barbaric!

# 56,186:

3:11 pm PST, Nov 7, Rebecca Butler, Rhode Island
Time to give up the horrid machines of torture.. It just takes a person once, like me, to watch a video of a gassing and the screams of the dogs, a sound you never knew they could make just lets you know the suffering and pain they are feeling in their last moments. Its time all these machines are DESTROYED!

# 56,185:

3:02 pm PST, Nov 7, Kathy Cox, Virginia

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3:01 pm PST, Nov 7, Buot Danielle, France

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2:46 pm PST, Nov 7, Susan Wyzik, Massachusetts

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2:37 pm PST, Nov 7, Porscha Whiteside, Pennsylvania

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2:35 pm PST, Nov 7, Tiffany Morales, New York

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2:32 pm PST, Nov 7, William Edelman, Pennsylvania

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2:23 pm PST, Nov 7, Alex Bachareva, Russian Federation
:)) За мир во всем мире!

# 56,178:

2:20 pm PST, Nov 7, BRIGITTE RIGAULT, France

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2:15 pm PST, Nov 7, Michelle C., California
HOW WE ARE STILL MURDERING ANIMALS IN THE HITLER MODE IS WAY BEYOND COMPASSIONATE~ THESE PEOPLE THAT ALLOW THIS TO CONTINUE NEED TO WATCH HITLERS ACTIONS!

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2:12 pm PST, Nov 7, Name not displayed, New York

# 56,175:

2:08 pm PST, Nov 7, Pavel Feodorov, Russian Federation

# 56,174:

1:51 pm PST, Nov 7, Jennifer Alicea, Alabama
I was born and raised in michigan I had no idea this horrible thing was happening.

# 56,173:

1:48 pm PST, Nov 7, Luis Bennett, New Jersey
If the euthanasia by gas chambers continues those performing this inhumane action can and will soon be compared with Nazi's of WWII.

# 56,172:

1:48 pm PST, Nov 7, Tabitha Boesch, Missouri

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1:47 pm PST, Nov 7, Jana Sheeder, Florida

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1:37 pm PST, Nov 7, Adrienne Rogers, Hawaii

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1:33 pm PST, Nov 7, Lilly Miller, New York

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1:05 pm PST, Nov 7, Janet Pyett, West Virginia

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12:46 pm PST, Nov 7, Heidi Palker, Maine

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12:27 pm PST, Nov 7, Ilana Brainis, Israel

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11:52 am PST, Nov 7, Angela Broschatt, Germany
The American Humane Association considers euthanasia by injection to be the only acceptable and humane means of euthanasia for animals in animal shelters. That act may be the only kindness the animal has ever known. :-(

# 56,164:

11:48 am PST, Nov 7, Carol Tessier, Massachusetts

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11:48 am PST, Nov 7, Emily Winsauer, Tennessee

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11:42 am PST, Nov 7, Boryana Madzharova, Czech Republic

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11:37 am PST, Nov 7, Name not displayed, Washington
it is very wrong to abuse and hurt animals for no reason and mis treat them... do to animals the way you want to be trated

# 56,160:

11:26 am PST, Nov 7, Donna Colby, Massachusetts

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11:23 am PST, Nov 7, T. Pr., Illinois

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11:23 am PST, Nov 7, Cameron Spencer, United Kingdom

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11:20 am PST, Nov 7, Mazie Miles-Fretschel, Wisconsin
How disgusting and do be mindful of your own souls work! Save them do not destroy them.

# 56,156:

11:07 am PST, Nov 7, Candi Amsler, Florida

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10:58 am PST, Nov 7, Natalie Brundred, Michigan

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10:54 am PST, Nov 7, CW Bottorff, Indiana
When animals are euthannized it should be done in the most humane way possible

# 56,153:

9:46 am PST, Nov 7, Steffen Bochmann, Germany

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9:43 am PST, Nov 7, Magali Engel, France

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9:42 am PST, Nov 7, L Walters, Virginia

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