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Dear Commissioner Hawkins,

I am writing to plead with you to look into closing the gas chamber at your shelter. Gassing is not humane but far from it. More often the animals are suffocated to death in a gas chamber, they do not go calmly to sleep as many are erroneously led to believe. I have seen videos of dogs gasping for oxygen and screaming in the chambers. It is a horrible, horrible way to kill any animal. In Ohio recently, dogs/puppies/cats/kittens were thrown in the incinerator to burn alive because they were not successfully killed in the chamber as thought by careless and indifferent employees at the shelter. 

Please read this article. http://www.animalsheltering.org/resources/policies_guidelines/carbon-monoxide-co-for-euthanasia-of-animals-in-shelters.html

 I have grown up in the mountains of North Carolina, I am the daughter of a farmer in Jackson County. I live in Asheville now. We use IV to euthanize our animals and we have a strong rescue program.

Please, please consider a more humane way to manage stray and overpopulated dogs and cats in Cleveland County.  The world is literally watching Shelby on social networks.