What is Heart Stick Euthanasia
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POSTED ON 08/22/2019 “ WHAT IS HEART STICK EUTHANASIA"
What is Heart Stick Euthanasia
Green Pets America Charities, Humane Society has been researching and educating the animal welfare industry and pet owners on Heart Stick Euthanasia at America’s animal shelters for years.
Heart Stick euthanasia is being done by county shelters to save money. It is cheaper for the shelter to not humanely sedate the dog, but euthanize the dog in one step, with a long steel needle jabbed straight to the live and panicked kicking dogs’ heart as the dog tries to escape the attendant’s foot or grasp. Many times, the dog moves, and the long needle misses the heart, piercing another organ. In that case, they do it again. At times if they euthanize a group of different size and weight dogs at one time, each syringe may not have enough poison in the syringe, and the dog does not die immediately, so they must kill her again.
We thought this inhumane practice ended, but it seems to have just slithered below the national radar. Green Pets America readers are giving us new examples however of where it’s still being done. Tennessee and Georgia are just two States we learned of this week.
If you have experience on this archaic animal cruelty practice of killing shelter dogs, without a sedative, and a lethal long needle injection into their heart, while the dog is fully awake please reach out to us in confidence. Steve@GreenPetsAmerica.org
From our industry knowledge, Green Pets America Humane Society is the only National Humane Society focused daily on this animal welfare cruelty issue.
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