In the report from January, Terry Kissell told a Humane Association employee that he had been shooting animals to euthanize them because their paperwork had issues and their euthanasia solution was expired.
A detective with the Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Department said he began investigating the shelter in Ripley in March after he received a complaint about six dogs being shot at the facility. However, he could not find any evidence to back it up, and charges were never filed.
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Read the entire article before you start commenting about how the shelter isn't inhumane just because they were shooting dogs.
The shelter director should be locked in a cage with a concrete floor, naked, with no blankets or bedding. For about a month.
ReplyDeleteThe most prominent Vet of my Ohio country said that shooting a dog, with proper shot placement is more humane than drugs. He had seen dogs take as much 5 hours to die after a massive lethal dose of barbituates.
ReplyDeleteThen that vet must be missing the vein. Every dog I've ever had put down by a vet was dead within a couple seconds.
DeleteAnd as far as shooting goes, it MAY be humane for some, but as soon as that asshole dog Jack sees a gun or smells gun oil, he starts to panic. Would you still consider that humane? I damned sure wouldn't.
The last three dogs I've said goodbye to I've had help from "Goodbye at Home" vets. It was well worth the money.
DeletePardon me while I find a Kleenex.
You're prominent vet must be ill educated (maybe one of those third world country vet schools) to make such a ridiculous comment. Any properly euthanized pet is dead within 30 seconds of administering the injection. If not, then someone missed the vein and that's on the vet, not the method or euthanasia. Sodium pentobarbital is quick and very lethal when used correctly. My second method if pentobarbital wasn't available would be carbon monoxide. The method of choice for people that check out peacefully on their own.
Delete2,000fps at a range of zero inches vs 30 seconds?
DeleteThe advantage of the needle is no mess to upset the owner. The last animal I had put down started howling the moment the vet inserted the needle. Maybe he knew.
Well, go ahead and shoot yours, then. I'll continue to put mine down the way I always have - holding them in my arms while whispering sweet nothings in their ear.
Delete@JeremyR: So, that's how you believe is the best way to say goodbye to a faithful and loyal friend at the end of life? I truly hope you really think hard about what you said and how it would affect your so called friend in the last moments of his or her life.
DeleteThink about this, how would you like to go out at the end of your life? Be honest with yourself.
Ohio Guy
Jeremy, you just sound like a cheap, heartless bastard to me, but I could be wrong.
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Ditto!
ReplyDeleteIt's long past time for the residents of that county to dust off the pitchforks, get some new torches cut, and find a bucket of tar and a rail. Sounds like some officials need to learn what happens when their community no longer needs their services.
ReplyDelete^^^^ at a minimum.
DeleteWell said
DeleteA lot of local governments are teeming with douchebag bureaucrats needing to be put down
ReplyDeleteAn aside:
ReplyDeleteWe fell into running a semi-informal retirement-home for RedHeelers.
Active imaginations, they need a job, so we keep them busy.
We volunteer with Search And Rescue... and occasionally, Search And Recovery.
We mule-pack the back-country.
Each string has at least one firearm capable of destroying an injured animal.
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I wish it was different, I hope one day for a different process.
This is the way it is.