Why animals in GA are allowed to suffer…Dept of AG isn’t on their side!
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Hi All,
Here is what goes on in GA, and I am sure that it goes on in other states, but this is the one I live in.
I my opinion, this is more confirmation of why things here, go on as they do.
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2007/10/10/gaschambers_1011.html?cxntnid=amn101107e
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October 11, 2007 @ 9:17 am
SAD SAD!!!!
October 11, 2007 @ 9:34 am
Nope, you’re wrong. You’re just going after the offenders in GA, which is very nobel. I know you work hard for animal rights. According to experts, we’re RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE, neither the worst or the best.
~Lyn
http://www.aldf.org/resources/details.php?id=86
October 11, 2007 @ 10:05 am
Right in the middle wins no prizes. Kinda of hard to fight for the welfare of animals when the agency that is suppose to be on your side has no conscience.
October 11, 2007 @ 10:11 am
I understand what you are trying to say but my point was that the Department of AG does NOT protect our animals in a way they would want us to believe.
If it is true that we are right in the middle statistically, and I don’t always believe the “experts”..I mean, who are the experts??…. it still stinks because all States should be in the “best” category when it comes to the care and humane treatment of our animals. There is so much progress that needs to be made…and it needs to be made fast. We can send a rocket to the moon and build ships the size of football fields but we can get strict laws to protects innocent animals.
To animals, suffering is suffering and I’m sure it doesn’t matter to them what state they are in.
October 11, 2007 @ 10:22 am
Rita I applaud all you hard work trying to shut these puppy mills down. You are truly a wonderful person to work so tirelessly on what you believe so much in. If there is ever anything I can do to help please let me know I would be happy to help !!
And… Just a question? Lyn… what are you trying to defend here? Being in the middle is an indefensible position when you are dealing with the lives of these poor defenseless dogs !! So I was just wondering??
October 11, 2007 @ 10:59 am
THIS is why I LOVE LOVE LOVE my Rita!!!
Your Loving
Zuke
October 11, 2007 @ 11:20 am
Lisa,
I absolutely agree with everything you said about Rita, and I’ve told her so. She works tirelessly for animals in Georgia. I appreciate that! The rest of us should be working just as hard in whatever state we live in. It’s horrifying what animals have to go through in all states. All I pointed out was that the problem did not start in Georgia, nor is it worse in Georgia than in many other states. Being in the middle is atrocious and appalling to me. Being at the bottom is even worse. All of us need to be as aware of the laws in our own states and care as much as Rita does to get laws changed in our own backyard. We need Ritas in EVERY state.
~Lyn
October 11, 2007 @ 11:24 am
Thanks Lyn.. appreciate you responding !!!
October 11, 2007 @ 11:27 am
Honestly, this isn’t about me…just wanted to show why nothing seems to happen here in GA.
It ticks me off that the Dept of AG can skirt around any issue they choose to.
How can this be true? And I am quoting from the article: “A spokesman for Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Tommy Irvin said the state agency was unaware of the order and could not comment.”
How is it that this state agency isn’t aware of the order?? It seems to me that it is convenient for them to be “unaware” of the matters they don’t want to be bothered with. Again, based on what I see here and have experienced, this is just my opinion.
October 11, 2007 @ 11:35 am
Here is a little more of what I mean:
GEORGIA DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE FOUND IN CONTEMPT FOR ALLOWING GASSING SHELTERS
Ga. in Contempt for Gassing Animals
Provided By: The Associated Press
Last Modified: 10/10/2007 2:49:29 PM
ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia Department of Agriculture has been found in contempt of a court order for failing to enforce a 1990 law against using gas chambers to euthanize dogs and cats at animal shelters.
The state issued a favorable inspection report last May for Cobb County’s animal shelter even though the facility was operating a carbon monoxide chamber at the time of the inspection, according to an order filed last week by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Tom Campbell.
Two months before the inspection, the court had ordered the state to begin enforcing the Georgia Humane Euthanasia Act, passed in 1990, which calls for lethal injection with sodium pentobarbital to be used in the vast majority of cases when dogs and cats need to be e uthanized.
The law allows counties that were using carbon monoxide gas in 1990 to continue using their gas chambers, but not to replace them. The Cobb County shelter’s gas chamber was installed in 1995, which state inspectors knew when they checked the facility earlier this year, court documents show.
The state was expected to comment later Wednesday on the court’s contempt ruling, spokesman Yao Seidu said.
To have the Oct. 3 ruling thrown out, the state agriculture department must withdraw the favorable inspection report and issue a new one citing Cobb County’s improper euthanasia technique, according to the court documents.
Plaintiffs’ attorney Walter Bush called the contempt ruling an “embarrassment” for the state.
“We hope that the state will now finally realize what it should have been doing all along, which is enforcing the law,” Bush said. “We hope they will now do their job.”
The plaintiffs are Chesley Morton, the former lawmaker wh o sponsored the state law, and Jennifer Robinson, a former Clayton County Humane Society worker whose dog was gassed after being hit by a car.
The case was filed after People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals received numerous complaints from whistleblowers in Georgia detailing the consequences of gassing animals in shelters, officials with the animal rights organization said.
Daphna Nachminovitch, director of the domestic animal department for PETA, called the court’s ruling the “final blow” in the case.
“This is obviously very serious,” she said. “The Georgia Department of Agriculture must uphold the law that it’s been charged with enforcing all these years and has failed to.”
October 11, 2007 @ 11:49 pm
I think that all humand should STOP bying a animal(Not just dog’s)from a pet store that can’t tell you were thay got there animal start at the sellers and then these pet farms would have no place to move there animals…..
well thats from the side of a dog me Buddy
October 12, 2007 @ 12:29 am
I can NOT for the life of me figure out why these things go on and how do they sleep at night!
There is so much legislation that needs to be changed…I totally agree Rita, They seem to close their eyes on these matters and in doing so many poor animals must suffer.
Rita you have my support if you need anything I can help you with also!
I appreciate your efforts
October 12, 2007 @ 2:14 am
I can’t understand why people act like this. What is wrong with them? I too do not understand how they can sleep at night….
October 12, 2007 @ 5:07 am
What a shocking barbaric way to dispose of these unwanted dogs,someone needs to drag these people kicking and screaming into the 21st century and tell them that this sort of thing should have been left behind in the last century or even the one before.
It isn’t the dogs fault that he/she is one of thousands of unwanted dogs, if they are going to be euthanized then they deserve that final bit of individual attention they get whilst receiving that last injection, not all heaped together in a Gas chamber and dying at different rates and panicking when they see what is going on around them.
I truly hope this practise can be kicked into touch.
Rhona