End Gas Chambers at the Davidson County Animal Shelter

 This site has been made in attempt to share information about a very important topic that has been overlooked for too long.  It is time to make a change, and take a step forward to stand up for what you believe to be fair and humane treatment for shelter animals. Some of the material on this site is disturbing, but it is important that you see this information and media, in order to understand the urgency needed to raise awareness about the topic at hand.  Go through the site and get informed, then tell your friends and family to do the same.  Together we can make a difference and insure that these animals are treated fairly, with love and compassion.

Euthanisia is described by many as "good death" or "mercy killing".  This practice has many different methods that very from state to state.  Euthanisia is widely used in the United States specificaly on animals that are not in good health, injured, or are simply unwanted.  These practices can be humane, such as with an intravenous injection resulting in a painless and peaceful death for the animal, however, in many shelters, this method is not the method that has been choosen to be used.  Carbon Monoxide chambers (aka. Gas Chambers) are being used to kill large numbers of animals at a time.  Very ironic considering the fact that most states have banned gas chamber executions on convicted murders due to the suffering that it causes an individual.  People who rape and kill children have the option of a more mercificul death than those animals that protect our family, find drugs and bombs, aid the disabled, and offer unconditional love regardless of race or gender.  People still seem to think that animals do not have emotions, that they cannot feel fear or pain, but they can.    This is in-humane and is the reason as to why I have created this site.  I am starting one county at a time, begining with Davidson County, to make a change and stand up for the voices that cannot be heard.

Gas chambers are not humane for many reasons.  Animals are crammed into small areas with many other animals at a time.  Fights, painic, and fear break out as the toxins enter their bodies and they gasp for air. They try to excape, but it is useless, they are trapped, and endure an unthinkably horrifying death.  These means of insensitive killings are barbaric and should not be allowed (is this really how far we have came as a society to torture animals and inflict them with a tramatic death?).  Should these animals be subjected to such treatment because of our neglect to help them?

This video is hard to watch, but it is important that you watch it and not look away.  Watch it for the lives that are lost daily and see that these animals deserve better.  In this way you can see that something has to be done, now.

"Two of the employees began pulling and tugging larger dogs toward the chamber -- this, in itself, was savage. The eyes of the dogs were full of fear as they were shoved into a large cylinder with another six dogs, all types. Next, five puppies were placed in the chamber.
Noise. Yelling. Fighting. All scared, they shivered again and again,
their eyes huge, their nostrils flaring. They were completely
bewildered. One dog in the chamber, a male chow mix about one year old, started snapping at the puppies. All the dogs and puppies were in a desperate struggle, and the gassing had yet to begin.
Then a button was pushed, and the two employees walked away as the chamber machine began pumping out streams of carbon monoxide. The little puppies started to paw at the glass window. After one full minute they started to whine and then produced a piercing squeal. Then the larger dogs started a high, mournful wailing, then a deeper howl that rose in great desperation for 45 seconds.
That morning of my witness, the time from inception of hell for the
dogs and puppies, to the completion of their cries of desperation, was between two and six minutes.
As the employees walked away, I knew it was my love, my honor, my devotion to animals that I must not blink and watch every second, every animal struggle to avoid death. However, tears from my heart did overwhelm me that tragic morning."

"One cat ran back and forth for minutes on end in the carbon monoxide chamber, jumping and slamming his body against the cage as though trying to excape.  A puppy who'd been gassed with other animals was still alive and crying after the rest were dead, so he was gassed again, and then again, until he finally died too."

“The noise from the howling dogs inside the chamber was so loud and sounded so awful, that shelter workers always tried to get as far away as possible once the gas came on."

 "If people actually saw the gas chamber working, they would sign a petition tomorrow to ban it."

It is important to educate everyone on this fact, without doing so, many will still be left in the dark about what is truely happening in shelters not only in North Carolina but nation wide.