Tasering and killing a dog? These people working for Animals Services???
Category: General News
Sunday, May 11th. The week is over.
This has to stop!
Please write to/call the above contacts. They full well know what they are doing, and the social media backlash directed at them has been blocked (by them) on FB.
VICTORY: San Antonio agrees to stop hiding comments on government-run animal shelter’s Facebook page
From a report done after a site visit in 2022 – there were numerous issues even then:
Dog euthanasia area
Pre-euthanasia holding kennels.
The incinerator is situated next to a series of euthanasia holding kennels. Though I did not get to observe the entire euthanasia process, what I observed and learned from numerous staff members is that the dogs are driven in a Kubota or walked on a catch pole to the euthanasia holding kennels and once all are gathered for euthanasia, they are walked through the door into the euthanasia area
where they are euthanised and then disposed of in the incinerator. I heard from multiple staff members that the dogs express anxiety and fear behaviours once in the pre-euthanasia kennels due to the smell of death from the euthanasia room that is just a few feet from the kennels.
Euthanasia room and process.
The euthanasia room itself was clean, though it did smell like dead bodies, likely from the cooler where some bodies are stored. The dogs are lifted onto a metal table and euthanized. When I asked a euthanasia supervisor why they are lifted up onto a table rather than the staff getting on the floor with them, he stated it’s hard for the staff to bend over that much so it’s easier on their bodies to euthanise them on the table. The table was steel with nothing on top of it.
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.. every single rescue is worth it. Look at her. She’s so precious. Saved, despite her health issues, from the Houston/TX (kill) shelter.
And again, the random (ab)use of the word “Euthanasia” ..
.. for the mass murder of animals, basically worldwide, has become fashionable, and implies to uneducated readers that you’re actually doing the poor creatures a favour.
That may be so, in VERY few cases, like Mark said with Turkey, “Dogs that are in pain, terminally ill or pose a heath risk would be euthanised“, but it is certainly not applicable to the young, and/or healthy. Done away with because they are considered surplus, unwanted etc.
Next thing we’ll hear is that animals are no longer slaughtered, but “euthanised”.
Let’s be clear here: if you kill a human, even with the best intention in the world (terminally ill, extreme suffering, etc.) and call it “Euthanasia” – you are a murderer. End of.
Language is so important. Racism/Speciesim/the subjugation of women – it all started with the language. And when it comes to animals, the abuse (of language) clearly knows no bounds. But we’ll cover that in a separate post. Soon.
At a court trial in Northern England, which we have been following, like many other international environmentalists; two men have now now been found guilty of the felling of an iconic tree located along ‘Hadrians Wall’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian’s_Wall – the northern most frontier of the ancient Roman Empire.
The two environmental thugs, Daniel Graham – 39 years of age, and Adam Carruthers aged 32 years, both from Cumbria in Northern England; have been convicted in a trial at Newcastle Crown Court on two counts of criminal damage – and the two have been remanded in custody ‘for their own protection’ until they are sentenced on 15th July 2025.
The pair even filmed themselves on a mobile phone destroying this beautiful, iconic landmark – so the evidence was pretty clear for the jury, who reached a unanimous verdict after a short deliberation.
Mrs. Justice Lambert leading the trial informed the pair to be prepared for ‘lengthy’ custodial sentences.
The iconic tree, which had survived the harshness of life on the wall; and yes it can be very bleak there; for over 150 years, was destroyed by the pair within a matter of seconds.
Despite this mindless destruction, the base of the tree still exist and is being monitored and nurtured by specialists. The legacy is to grow 49 new trees from the remaining section of the tree.
This will be the positive shared with a global audience who were devastated by events.
Further links –
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14695485/Sycamore-Gap-revenge-motive-planning-dispute.html
While this article is a few years old, there has been no change to this practice.
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
- Tokyo politician released photographs from inside an ‘euthanasia centre’
- Images show the procedure is anything but humane as dogs are gassed
- Lawmaker hopes to highlight Japan’s stray policy and encourage debate
Published: 16:53 BST, 25 November 2015 | Updated: 21:41 BST, 25 November 2015
The streets of Tokyo may be free of prowling dogs since its zero-stray policy came into effect but the laws come at a heavy price as one politician has revealed.
Ayaka Shiomura, a lawmaker in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly, recently went to visit an euthanasia centre in Japan and shown that the ‘dream box’ used to euthanise the country’s strays are anything but humane.
The excruciating procedure involves putting strays into a gas chamber where they are slowly suffocated with carbon dioxide and the whole process can last as long as 15 minutes, reported People’s Daily Online.
Ayaka Shiomura went to visit an unnamed facility, thought to be in Tokyo where the lawmaker is based, and posted about her experience on her website last month.
Euthanasia facilities like it are part of a zero-stray policy, which stipulates that all unclaimed cats and dogs must be euthanised in a set period of time according to Rocket News 24.
Shiomura explained in her introduction that any animals brought to the facility remains at the shelter for anywhere between three to seven days, depending on local policy.
After that time, if the animal is unclaimed, it will be disposed of.
During Shiomura’s visit, 10 dogs were to be euthanised. Of those, some were thought to be pets as they still had collars on.
The dogs were kept in a cage, which has a back door leading straight into the ‘dream box’ – a romantic name that had little to do with the stark reality of the gas chamber.
The staff at the facility never have to touch the animals as they generally wander in on their own accord.
Once inside, the chamber is locked down and a button is pressed to disperse carbon dioxide into the chamber.
Elisa Allen, Associate Director at PETA, told MailOnline: ‘Death by carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide can be extremely distressing and painful.
‘Cats often slam themselves against their cages, desperately trying to escape. Dogs howl, cry and claw at the metal walls of the chambers while they’re slowly poisoned.’
The cramped gas chamber is equipped with a glass window, which allows the operator to check the procedure is complete.
Through this window, Shiomura captured the final moments of the dogs’ gruesome death through suffocation.
Shiomura described that the dogs were ‘trembling’ before the procedure but this soon became ‘panting’ and eventually ‘collapsing’.
The chamber is gassed for 15 minutes to ensure the dogs are completely dead.
Finally, their remains are dumped into an incinerator to be disposed of.
According to news site TouTiao, Shiomura debated over whether to publish the post but felt that she needed to highlight the issue of animal culling.
She explained that in Japan, there’s around 170,000 stray dogs and cats that are euthanised in this way but the procedure is far from kind.
Shiomura hopes that more people in Japan would consider the consequences of buying a pet before making the purchase.
There are more humane ways to euthanise animals.
Elisa Allen informed MailOnline: ‘Animal shelters around the world condemn the use of such gases, choosing instead euthanasia (‘mercy killing’) by intravenous injection of sodium pentobarbital in the case of dogs, cats and animals of similar size, sometimes using other humane methods for smaller or larger animals.
‘When properly performed by caring, well-trained people – one who holds and comforts the animal and another who carefully injects the solution intravenously – euthanasia provides a painless, peaceful release.’
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Source Link:
The Tokyo ‘euthanasia centre’ for stray dogs
https://www.esdaw.eu/the-tokyo-euthanasia-centre-for-stray-dogs.html
WAV is based in Kent, England; as well as having Diana in Germany.
Kent is known as the ‘gateway to Europe’ due to its location. It is a short hop over [or under] the English Channel to start your euro journey from France. Kent is a very historic county with masses of beautiful buildings and locations to visit. It is located directly South East of ‘Ol London town’ but the reality is once you get there, for example, down into the Weald; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weald which still has 23% of its area covered by woodland; the world here is utterly different to the madness mayhem that is London. And to think central London borders with Kent and is a mere 23 miles away !
So, work done for the English Tourist Board; lets get back to the Kent Wildlife Trust
Main link – https://www.kentwildlifetrust.org.uk/
KWT have a unique opportunity to create a wildlife rich landscape; where missing species can be resored to former farmland.
In the borough of Tunbridge Wells lies over 205 ACRES of land where hedgerows have eroded and the woodland edges are disappearing. Bordering Furnace Farm, an existing KWT reserve, Hoathly Farm has been intensively farmed for decades and no longer yields the returns needed to be viable without flooding the land with pollutants.
KWT HAVE UNTIL THE 24TH MAY 2025 TO SECURE THIS LAND AND RESTORE IT TO A BEAUTIFUL HAVEN FORE WILDLIFE AND WALKERS.
Can you help with a donation; no matter the size ?
Please go to the following to help – https://www.kentwildlifetrust.org.uk/hoathly-farm-appeal
Please take a look at the video below to see what could be done for the animals, nature and people.
The Hoathly Farm Appeal. The biggest land purchase appeal ever.
https://www.kentwildlifetrust.org.uk/hoathly-farm-appeal
Thank you – WAV.
It can be ignored, or at least pushed aside, until one sees faces. Actual faces. We often deal with issues here that involve hundreds, thousands, of individuals – like live export, say – but when you finally look someone in the eye, it gets really difficult.
In the US, many shelters are still kill shelters, with a massive turnover, and with animals often just having a few days, before they are killed. I say killed, because the term “euthanasia” is far too widely used these days for all and sundry. Like the shooting of these 700 koalas in Australia (article on site). In my personal view, so-called euthanasia, certainly of young/healthy individuals without “need” (as in cutting short unbearable suffering), is murder.
Many shelters in the US also still “euthanise” by heart-stick and gassing. I’ve seen both, and believe me, you don’t want to know. When whole litters are places in a metal box, with expectant faces (is this a game??) and wagging tails, and the lid is closed, the gas turned on .. you’ll never again forget the screams .. as I cannot.
So, the “shelter” at San Antonio, TX, is but one of many, who daily kill. It serves as an example, and currently I am seeing the “Euthanasia Capacity List” several times every day, being updated every 15 mins. (!!).
Link to official lists of animals needing placement:
https://www.sa.gov/Directory/Departments/ACS/Placement-Surrender/Urgent#section-7
Instagram page presenting the most urgent individuals in immediate danger of being killed:
https://www.instagram.com/sanantoniourgentsadoptables/
Facebook ..
https://www.facebook.com/sanantoniourgentsandadoptables
It is especially hard to see with the puppies …
or those with “issues” due to abuse or neglience ..
Anyone able to help here, please share, adopt …
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Please also visit ..
https://nokilladvocacycenter.org/
8 May 2025
Several of Parliament’s most active and committed supporters of animal welfare, from across the political spectrum, joined us in the House of Commons to learn how a number of outdated and unnecessary animal tests could be ended immediately, through our RAT (Replace Animal Tests) List.
In a productive roundtable discussion, the MPs were shown how six animal tests – which use approximately 80,000 animals every year – are still conducted in the UK despite the availability of appropriate non-animal replacements. The detailed and well-informed session covered what the six tests on animals involve, the barriers to progress, and practical steps for securing an end to the unacceptable practise of testing on animals where replacements are available.
Those present included Steve Race, a member of the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee; Alex Mayer, who played a leading role in our petition to the United Nations for a global ban on animal testing for cosmetics, in partnership with The Body Shop, which received eight million signatures to become the largest animal-related petition in history; and Irene Campbell, who Chairs the All Party Parliamentary Group on Phasing Out Animal Experiments in Medical Research, and led the recent debate on banning testing on dogs.
In recent years, the development of non-animal methods has increased significantly, and they can now replace, wholly or in part, a number of tests on animals across several product sectors.
However, our experience has been that actually replacing tests on animals takes much longer than it should. We have seen how non-animal methods available for assessing skin irritation, skin sensitisation and batch safety have taken years to be adopted and we know that tests on animals are still being conducted to provide this information. This is unacceptable.
In many cases, the problem lies with a lack of clarity from, and enforcement by, regulatory authorities, as well as the absence of a joined-up approach for acceptance of non-animal methods around the world. Since non-animal tests can be cheaper, faster and more accurate than the tests on animals they replace, it is in the interests of animal welfare and good science to speed up their acceptance and to expand their use.
Overcoming these remaining hurdles, so that these tests on animals can finally be fully replaced, is a matter of urgency.
The six tests we discussed were for the assessment of skin irritation, skin sensitisation and eye irritation; routine batch testing of veterinary vaccines; potency testing of Botox samples; and the production of antibodies.
Botox batch testing involves injecting Botulinum toxin into the abdomens of mice. Over three days they become increasingly paralysed, and if left the mice given the higher-level dose will slowly suffocate to death. Approximately half of the mice die during the test and all survivors are killed at the end of the test. Nearly 50,000 of these tests were carried out in the UK in 2023, despite the world’s major Botox manufacturers developing an alternative cell-based test.
For antibody production, animals – including mice, rabbits, sheep, and goats – are used as ‘factories’ to generate large numbers of antibodies. An injection stimulates the animal’s immune system to produce specific types of antibodies – but this often causes harmful side effects before their blood is taken to harvest the antibodies. Animals are killed when they are no longer useful. Phage display technology – awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and endorsed in 2020 by the EU Reference Laboratory for alternatives to animal testing – can be used to produce a wide range of antibodies that are of higher quality, more stable, more relevant and more reproducible than the antibodies produced in animals. They are also much faster and cheaper to produce.
See the full RAT (Replace Animal Tests) List on our website.
Our Head of Public Affairs, Dylan Underhill, said: “People may assume that tests on animals which have non-animal replacements available are no longer conducted, or at least rarely – but the reality is that such tests can continue, and even increase long after the adoption of suitable alternative methods. It was great to see MPs engaging with the issues and statistics behind our RAT List – politicians can play a vital role in overcoming the problems which prevent the adoption of new non-animal tests. This isn’t just about science, it’s about political will too. With the government working on its manifesto commitment to phase-out animal testing, ending these six tests represents a significant but easily-achieved first step towards that aim.”
World Animals Voice 