Who dares stand before their Maker on the Day of Judgment, when their hands are stained bloody red from this legacy of torment, abuse, and destruction? The incomprehensible torment visited upon the blameless pets of Yadkin County, North Carolina, may not go unchallenged.
Can we hold our heads high, in Twenty-first Century America, when the blameless, the vulnerable, the orphaned and the friendless, perish gasping in the steel confines of the Yadkin County Animal Shelter Carbon Monoxide Gas Chamber?

We, the undersigned, do hereby:

RESOLVE, that the Yadkin County Board of Commissioners, the Yadkin County Animal Shelter, and all relevant and responsible authorities, must cease at once the barbaric slaying of Yadkin County pets in the carbon monoxide gas chamber; and we do hereby further

RESOLVE, that euthanasia, when unavoidable, all reasonable alternatives having been exhausted, should be effected by use of the use of pharmaceutical injection, of such humane lethal agents as intravenous sodium pentothal; and we do hereby further

RESOLVE, that no one who could witness the terrifying destruction of these trusting, innocent animals would go unscarred, and that perpetuation of these methods inflicts psychological damage on all who are ordered to perform the deadly deed, if any humanity yet lives within them; and we do hereby further

RESOLVE, that such inhumane and unconscionable practices are a blight upon the imaginations and souls of our children and grandchildren, whose nightmares are ever plagued by monstrosities such as these; and we do hereby further

RESOLVE, that the animal welfare community will be prepared to applaud and commend Yadkin County for its care, kindness, and compassion, when it has accomplished these critical tasks.

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http://www. thepetitionsite. com/1/stop-gassing-carolina-pets

Every day across the United States, thousands of unwanted dogs and cats are put to death by use of gassing chambers, an unnecessarily cruel and horrible manner of death. Gassing chambers are atrocious and cause great amounts of stress and prolonged agony to the animals.They are sometimes ineffective in their task, necessitating its repeated use on the animals who simply did not die.

We hope to make residents of states who still employ this barbaric form of death aware of the fact and hope to enlist the help of many of our citizens who want this horrible form of death to be abolished to let their legislators know our feelings.

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http://www. thepetitionsite. com/1/establish-federal-legislation-to-end-the-use-of-gassing-chambers-as-a-means-of-euthanasia

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.

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.

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http://www. thepetitionsite. com/2/stop-gassing-animals-in-north-carolina

STOP THE GAS CHAMBER AT THE STANLY COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER

This photo shows the strange gas chamber used to kill thousands of unwanted animals at the Stanly County Animal Shelter in Albemarle, North Carolina. Can you imagine watching dogs and cats being put into this awful, tilted metal box to die?

Please contact the government officials and politely encourage a change to humane euthanasia by injection for the animals that are not adopted from the shelter.

As always, please do your part to control overpopulation by spaying and neutering your pets! Save a shelter pet instead of buying from breeders and pet stores. Help stop the suffering today.

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http://www. thepetitionsite. com/takeaction/604384350

Is this truly how far we have come as a society, to insure suffering upon an animal at its last moments on earth, all because of our failure to be responsible pet owners? This is appalling, especially considering the fact that North Carolina doesn't even offer this horrifying death as an option for its convicted murderers. People who rape and kill children have a more merciful death than animals, whose only crime is not having anyone to love and take care of them.

This county needs to enforce animal cruelty laws and focus on adoption and prevention methods, something that the sheriff's department is not doing. We need to put someone in charge who has the animals' welfare as a priority, because animals do have feelings, too. They protect us, our children, find drugs and bombs, provide services to the disabled, and they are loyal and offer unconditional love to people regardless of race or gender. They too deserve respect and dignity. If we focus on prevention and adoption methods, having to euthanize animals could become a thing of the past, but in order to get here, we must be willing to set a goal and work towards this solution.

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http://www. gopetition. com/petitions/ban-gas-chambers-davidson-county-animal-shelter. html

STOP GAS CHAMBER EUTHANASIA IN MICHIGAN

I am writing this petition crying out for the help of the people to help stop the inhumane euthanasia of animals by gas chamber. Hundreds and maybe even thousands of animals each year are placed in the gas chamber of Berrien County Michigan Animal Control to die. The entire process of gassing these animals can take as long as 40 minutes to complete. While the animals are in this gas chamber even before the gassing begins the animals can get very frightened and start to fight and as the gas starts to fill the chamber the animals start to howl for release.

We need to urge all the Animal Shelters that use this method of euthanasia to switch to a more humane euthanasia process like sodium pentobarbitol injections which euthanizes the animal within seconds. This process is painless and the animal has no suffering whatsoever. The animal is also held with compassion by the members of the shelter staff as the animal passes on. Please I urge you help us combat this inhumane and unethical act of euthanasia and urge them to consider a more humane method.

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http://www. thepetitionsite. com/1/stop-gas-chamber-euthanasia-in-michigan

Brevard County in Florida has an extremely high pet over-population and equally high kill rates. In Brevard over 10,000 animals are being euthanized annually. We plan on scheduling a meeting with the commissioner about wanting ALL shelters in Brevard to go No-Kill. No-kill has been done and can be done. Let's do what is right for the animals who deserve the quality care and life they deserve. There is no excuse for putting animals down. Let's tell our county that we are fed up with the inexcusable killing of healthy and adoptable pets!

Just between the South and the North Animal Care and Adoption Centers in 1/1/06-12/31/06 a total of 15,821 cats and dogs were brought to the shelter. Out of the 15,821 cats and dogs, 10,013 were euthanized making it 63% destroyed! This is just in 2006 and 2007 is even higher (statistics not available yet).

Thank you for reaching for a better tomorrow! To read more details on No-kill shelters go to http://nokilladvocacycenter. org/

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http://www. thepetitionsite. com/1/Make-Brevard-No-Kill-County

STOP THE USE OF GAS CHAMBERS AS A METHOD OF EUTHANASIA IN UTAH

It has been shown in the Utah State Statutes that gassing is an unacceptable method of euthanasia in animal shelters. Research has shown that people have died, had ongoing health problems, fertility problems, etc. from exposure to the CO2 gas. It has also been shown that it is not a quick, painless death. Euthanasia is defined as "The Good Death". Gassing is not what would fit in this category. It is not something that is easier on the person euthanising the animal. The animal dying can scream, bang it's head against the door, and scratch. This is something that we have outlawed for our prisoners, why are we using such barbaric ways to euthanize animals?

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http://www. thepetitionsite. com/8/stop-the-use-of-gas-chambers-as-a-method-of-euthanasia-in-utah

We have been working with veterinarians, city government officials, and citizens in St. Joseph, MO to change the present local laws and ordinances, and to ban the use of gas chambers to kill animals in the city's shelter.

We have shown that THE SAFEST AND MOST HUMANE WAY TO EUTHANIZE AN ANIMAL IS BY LETHAL INJECTION. A letter has been sent to each city council member.

We have contacted the city officials about the fact that the shelter still uses the gas chamber and to educate them as to its DANGER TO HUMANS and to show that it is indeed INHUMANE. Maybe you live in St. Joseph and are not aware that they are using this outdated, inhumane method. St. Joseph's shelters is one of the few shelters in all of Missouri that still uses this barbaric inhumane method to kill animals.

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http://www. petitiononline. com/scstjoe/petition. html

The Johnston County animal shelter continues to kill unwanted animals in the GAS CHAMBER. Even the sick, injured, pregnant, puppies, and elderly animals are put to death by gas. I'm just one concerned citizen who wants this changed to euthanasia by injection. This method is painless, faster, and more cost effective. It would put an end to the suffering that accompanies death in the gas chamber. Our county euthanizes 3000 per year. This method is considered by many to be outdated. Animals in a gas chamber do not die quickly or painlessly. They struggle for breath. They claw to get out. This is not a pretty site and will stay with you for a very long time. When animals inhale carbon monoxide, they can suffer convulsions, vomiting, angina, and muscular spasms. Some will not die the first time.

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http://www. petitiononline. com/JC4NC/petition. html