| Tax dollars pay for a killing facility | |
| October 07, 2006 | |
| Opinion | |
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With taxpayers' dollars, we kill 10 dogs and cats at the county pound every day it is open. This added up to the killing of 2,529 dogs and cats in 2005. Only 135 dogs and cats were adopted last year!
All of this cost us -- the taxpayers -- some $340,000-plus. Is this how we want our hard-earned tax dollars to be spent?
Do you know exactly how these 50 dogs and cats are killed each week? Let me tell you. The county pound has a 5 x 5 cement box that is a gas chamber. Each week, the 50 dogs and cats, 20 to 25 at a time are "thrown" into the gas chamber, fighting and clawing each other, and then they are gassed until they die.
You may have noticed I have used the term "county pound" instead of county animal shelter. The word "shelter" connotes a place of safety. Our county pound is definitely not operating a place where animals are safe.
Our county operates a "killing center," and each of us is responsible for it! It is time to put a stop to this endless killing.
Max Fitz-Gerald
Quaker Road
The writer is the founder of For the Love of Dogs Inc. | |
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