Residents push for more humane euthanasia at Garland shelter

Tracy Yost says:

obviously i'm not a medical professional. And I have a cat who probably should have been "put down" a long time ago, however, I cannot bear to do it. But, is the injection method really more humane than gas ? I'm just axin....

Rawlins Gilliland says:

I knew someone who used to administer the death shots. She is still traumatized years later.

I know it's easy to talk about 'no-kill' shelters...but this often can mean an animal who is year after year caged and unadoptable, unsocialized,etc.

And then to use gas for mass killing vs. individual death, one on one, is asking a lot of people to do what you and I could not.

<u>The only 'answer' here is to:</u>

1)EMPHAsize spay and neuter programs and subsidize them and outreach the lower socioeconomic demographic areas where dogs and cats are treated like 'things'. And

2) Make genuine efforts to appreciate what is actually housed AT the shelters. Animal shelters everywhere. Wonderful creatures. Yet the semi-stigma continues that 'pound' dogs (and cats) are 'strays' and lower forms of the desirable trait yadayada.

<i>In fact, mixed breeds are stronger, better genetically, on and on.... Again, we cannot allow perception to pass as fact w/o a challenge.</i>