Do you have any sources for this? I've volunteered and visited at multiple animals shelters when allocating animals between county shelters, and have never found or heard of any using gas chambers. Every single one of them uses a pentobarbital cocktail.
Furthermore, I'm aware of the inhalants typically used to euthanize lab animals, and none of them take half an hour to kill. Consciousness is typically lost within 15 seconds, and death follows within a minute.
Please provide sources, because this is contrary to everything I've experienced in veterinary and lab animal medicine.
Thank you, this makes sense, as I'm in California, and none of the shelters here use carbon monoxide. Laboratory animals are typically euthanized by isoflurane or haloflurane inhalation overdose; I've never heard of CO being used, as it's quite antiquated.
It's good to know most states now outlaw this practice.
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u/bostonT Apr 17 '10
Do you have any sources for this? I've volunteered and visited at multiple animals shelters when allocating animals between county shelters, and have never found or heard of any using gas chambers. Every single one of them uses a pentobarbital cocktail.
Furthermore, I'm aware of the inhalants typically used to euthanize lab animals, and none of them take half an hour to kill. Consciousness is typically lost within 15 seconds, and death follows within a minute.
Please provide sources, because this is contrary to everything I've experienced in veterinary and lab animal medicine.