SHAME ON US AMERICA - LET US CHANGE THIS

The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Dear Mr. President,

As concerned citizens we the people, are asking for your intervention.
We are talking about the killings of unwanted animals at tax funded pounds / services / shelters by the use of gas chambers and the heart stick method, whilst the animals to be killed are not sedated.
It is gruesome, cruel and atrocious that these practices still exist in our country. These animals young and old are being placed in these gas chambers by the hundreds to endure the most horrific slow deaths imaginable, to last between 10 to 30 minutes for they to succumb in agony and suffering while being asphyxiated. Some do not die and are placed back into the chamber for a second gassing session; some suffocate in the plastic bags while being dumped and still alive at the landfills and others survive the whole ordeal and are found alive in the landfills among hundreds of other dead cats and dogs.
Since 1997 there have been numerous petitions, open letters, calls and pledges to many commissioners, county managers, state governors as well as to the states representatives to no avail. All of the thousand pleas have been ignored. But the petitions still go on with the hope that they will be heard.
Now we are appealing to you Mr. President to once and for all hear the peoples requests to abolish and to place an urgent and immediate halt to all of the existing gas chambers and heart sticking procedures in this country. We can not wait until next years legislation to pass, we can not allow for even one more day for these atrocities to continue and for so many animals to die in such a barbaric way.
The main target in the media with these alleged accusations has been the state of North Carolina, being one of the states where both barbaric methods are still being used to kill cats and dogs. The lack of attention to the peoples petitions might be due to the conflict of interest among those in power in that state.
We have called and we have contacted representatives, U.S. Senators as well as others in the White House. We hope that you can do something about this serious and troubling problem. Our communities need transparency so that we can trust our governments.
What goes on in these states is unethical and wrong, it is being reflected in the entire nation, placing us in a dreadful position in the world.
These tax funded pounds and shelters are not regulated and have developed a passion to kill any animal, no matter if the animal is healthy and adoptable or if it is a family pet that wears a tag or has a microchip.
The tax funded shelter employees have their own set of rules, for them to decide which animal will be killed and which animal will be put up for rescue, at the discretion of who is the manager on duty that day.
The tax funded run shelters do not operate with the goal of returning lost pets to their owners and do not provide the possibility for the working people to visit their locations by extending their hours.  More animals would be adopted and rescued if these tax funded shelters would offer more flexibility to their communities.
More revenue would be created and less unnecessary cost would be cut.
We need reform and we need change today not tomorrow. Too many animals are dying in horrific ways and it is indescribable, fearful and appalling that in our day and age we allow this type of cruel and outdated killings to take place here in America. Gas chambers and heart stick procedures are terrible methods to kill an animal; the result is a prolonged agony, suffering and horror while the animals are being asphyxiated or stabbed to death in the heart. If euthanasia is a way for animal control why not do it in a humanely manner and use the lethal injection as recommended by the American Veterinary Medical Association for only comatose or severely injured animals?  While increasing the holding times for the rest?
Although we know that it is a long-standing tradition and courtesy to direct our concern that is not under the jurisdiction of the federal government to the appropriate government, an alternative to this tradition should be available.

Especially when the system in place is not working; when the appropriate government officials do not or can not follow suit with investigations; or when this governmental sectors are not being regulated; and when the employees of these tax funded places create their own set of rules and definitions of the published laws and statutes.