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still using firearms, banned poisons or exhaust from vehicles to dispose of strays. As of 1977, state law recognizes two methods of approved euthanasia: injection with sodium phenobarbital and use of a five per cent carbon monoxide cylinder in a gas chamber. Legal use of firearms is restricted to instances where animals can't
employ the two approved methods of disposal.
Luke maintained that Rappahannock's approach to euthanasia is much more humane that the gassing permitted by state law. The county’s dog warden doesn't take pot shots at strays, he said. After five days, unclaimed animals are “shot right behind the head. They die just like that. Luke said, snapping his fingers. "Just one bullet—no yipping, biting, hollering and yelping."
In contrast, the supervisor chairman reported on Warren County’s dog pound where animals are gassed. Big dogs must enter the chamber through a large door "and they don’t just walk in—they have to be pushed and shoved." he said. Small dogs are likewise pushed and shoved into the same chamber through a separate, smaller door. “You can imagine all tfie"T>ffing“ and barking and yelping that goes on. And this is all humane?" Luke asked, acknowledging that the dogs do die in a hurry once the gas is turned on.
Humane Society members responsible for the letters that went out to Rap
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