NC and Gassing Shelters!!! Little did you know...

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Animal gas chambers:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HL5X3AUQ4wCross posted from Facebook:HSUS estimates 4 million dogs and cats are euthanized in the US annually. NC makes up a HUGE part of that- approximately a quarter of a million each year. This link shows kill numbers reported by shelters in NC, although many of the 104 required shelters did not report. Adding the missing shelters easily breaks 250,000 dogs and cats killed yearly. Let's crosspost this. If HSUS estimates are correct, North Carolina shelters kill about 1/12 to 1/16 of the US total each year! Please help spread the word and ask more

rescues to save these precious animals from NC kill shelters. http://www.epi.state.nc.us/epi/vet/pdf/snreportsummary0107.pdfMap of North Carolina Gas Chamber Shelters, complete with Petfinder links:http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8 & hl=en & msa=0 & msid=103883427940135972934.00047b16c28d96ab72fec & z=7Please help save animals from our state's forgotten shelters. Many facilities are remote and get few adoptions. Some have few or no animals posted online, while hundreds of homeless dogs and cats wait to die. Send me a private message for more information about particular counties. *Note: only gassing shelters are listed on this map. North Carolina has 100 counties and many more kill shelters.More ways to ACT to end the suffering of gassed animals in North Carolina shelters.Share WHAT YOU CAN DO: Write letters to the Office of Administrative Hearings, Rules Review Commission, 1307 Glenwood Avenue, Raleigh, NC 27605 and urge them to adopt a ban on animal gas chambers. Call Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler at 919-733-7125, and Chamber of Commerce Pres Lew Ebert at 919-836-1407 and urge them to end the use of animal

gas chambers in North Carolina. Email North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue at this link: http://www.governor.state.nc.us/forms/contact.aspx and urge her to request the introduction of legislation which would override the Commissioner of Agriculture’s removal of the board’s recommendation to end the killing of pets by carbon monoxide gas. Most shelters use injection to euthanize even aggressive dogs, including 67 of North Carolina’s 100 counties. Send Gov. Perdue

this link: http://www.companionanimalnetworktv.org/Videos/yadkin_county.mov You can also call or fax a letter to the Governor:1 (800) 662-7952 if you live out of state or (919) 733-2391 in you live in NC. calls; Fax (919) 733-2120. Click here to email North

Carolina legislators and urge them to adopt legislation banning use of animal gas chambers. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/gascripts/Help/KnowledgeBase/viewItem.pl?nID=27 Click here for names and contact information for all N.C. House members. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/gascripts/members/memberList.pl?sChamber=House Click here for names and contact information for all N.C. Senators. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/gascripts/members/memberList.pl?sChamber=Senate Contact Iredell County officials and urge them to use lethal injection and not go back to the animal gas chamber. Joel R. Mashburn, County Manager; jmashburn Phone: (704) 878-3050 Fax: (704) 878-5355 Jean Moore, Clerk to the Board of commissioners; jmoore Tracy Jackson, Assistant County Manager; tjackson