Sandy City no longer uses the gas chambers; Draper is considering making the transition to
euthanasia by injection only; and South Jordan City residents are letting their City Council Members know they want the gas chamber removed too.
Not exact matches
I strongly believe that North Carolina needs to establish
euthanasia by lethal
injection as the
ONLY method.»
Also, Â a cost study of
euthanasia in North Carolina shelters establishes
euthanasia by injection is not
only safer for workers and humane for animals, it is cheaper. (The study is attached below for downloading.)
The new law makes sodium pentobarbital
injection, also known as
euthanasia by injection (EBI), the state's
only approved method of
euthanasia for dogs and cats in shelters.
The National Animal Control Association (NACA) issued the following policy statement in September, 2010: «NACA considers lethal
injection of sodium pentobarbital, administered
by competent, trained personnel, to be the
only method of choice utilized for humane
euthanasia of animal shelter dogs and cats.»
Washington
only permits
euthanasia of shelter animals
by injection of sodium pentobarbital.
New York (would mandate
euthanasia by injection or EBI), Pennsylvania (would also ban chloroform, ether, halothan, fluothane, or similar substance when used in an airtight chamber or plastic bag, North Carolina (would mandate EBI), Georgia (EBI mandated already for dogs and cats and bill would close loopholes that allow many counties to continue to use CO gas; the bill would allow heartstick
only if the animal is unconscious, heavily sedated or comatose), West Virginia (would ban new Co gas chambers), New Mexico, Louisiana (would ban CO chambers for dogs and cats and also ban heartstick unless the «animal is unconscious or rendered completely unconscious and insensitive to pain through the
injection of an anesthetic») and Michigan (would also ban CO2).
Texas law allows
only two methods of killing shelter animals: (1) humane
euthanasia by lethal
injection of sodium pentobarbital administered
by a trained employee out of the sight and away from other animals in a quiet area.
The AVMA's new direction is more in line with the National Animal Control Association (NACA) which in September 2010, issued the following policy statement: «NACA considers lethal
injection of sodium pentobarbital, administered
by competent, trained personnel, to be the
only method of choice utilized for humane
euthanasia of animal shelter dogs and cats.»