Animal shelter workers: We were forced to freeze kittens to death

NY Post ^ | August 13, 2018 | Chris Perez

[EinNYC]

Indiana cops are investigating a disturbing case of animal abuse, in which shelter workers allegedly euthanized kittens by freezing them alive.

Several ex-employees have come forward and claimed to have witnessed the cruel and inhumane procedure being performed at the Spencer County Animal Shelter on at least two different occasions.

[DUMBGRUNT]

https://www.avma.org/KB/Policies/Documents/euthanasia.pdf

[Rashputin]

"A most difficult task."

Difficult even after all the horrible stuff I've seen humans do to one another.

[Karliner]

Both Lot’s of dumping. When the economy tanked during Bush/Obama we had so many stray dogs( some very well trained) and cats it was tough. I don’t know all the reasons but mainly back then we figured is was just a lot of stray cats just multiplying and those city folks just dumping cats, dogs, pet rats, Snakes, name it they dumped them. Not as many now but still happens. I’ve yet to catch a person who dumps their beautiful well trained Lab or German shepherd for us to have to deal with them.

[Karliner]

I get it I suppose, but it would seem just as easy and more humane to put a .22 into their head, or bonk them over the head with a sledge hammer. Don't like getting involved with techniques but yes the 22 frangible or even a hollow point is less messy and very quick, with little suffering unless you wing them.

[Lizavetta]

They are all heartbreaking. Its bad enough when they have to put one down because they are too ill to save.

We had to do this last year to our perfectly healthy kitten who had somehow ingested dental floss and would have attacks where bowel pain would hit and she'd race around the house trying to get away from the pain, spraying diarrhea everywhere. These attacks became more frequent after she and her sister got spayed. Our only three options were make her an outside cat (with her sister living indoors) where the raccoons and coyotes live, put her down or do surgery which the vet said it was unlikely she'd survive, being underweight and weakened by her condition.

We still cry about it.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

A sharp blade to the back of the neck. Driving it into the brain. Quick and probably as painless as it gets. That is for pet sized animals.

[be-baw]

“A sharp blade to the back of the neck. Driving it into the brain. Quick and probably as painless as it gets.”

Never heard of that technique used for mammals. I think it’s the preferred way of killing a lobster. Makes sense.

[Psalm 144]

Thank you. What a dismal and disgusting situation. You really don’t have happy choices there.

[Karliner]

Thank you. What a dismal and disgusting situation. You really don’t have happy choices there. Yes, it's bad but when all of a sudden you go from say five to fifty cats in a couple months you have to get rid of them. Ranching and farming isn't for everyone. Want another eyeopener? Each of those lovely bulls you see have a moment aside from branding and it's castration day to fatten them up for market sale.I will not tell the sordid details but it needs to be done

Had my teen daughter out one year many years ago and she wanted to save all the cats. Went to house and most the ranches already had four or five favorites so she went to store, closer suburbs to the cities and could only give away a couple of twenty-seven. Then we had to sit with her and ask, will she spay them and let them live? She pays and next summer how many? Who pays for the food, the care, the vaccinations, the worming? Suffice to say she was overwhelmed. Before she moved she was out with myself and the ranch manager sending them to heaven. Has to be done.

Now let's just stay with cats. You have fifty now and no little kid wants the animals to die so say 20 of those fifty get pregnant and have a small five kittie litter...now you have a 100. There is not enough Chinese food restaurants, not enough anatomy labs...you could I suppose breed turkey vulture, crows and other animals to rid the cat problem and yet something needs to be done because though cats are nice pets for people they're a virtually worthless animal unless they're mousers. Don't want to sound callous but too many cats becomes a problem.

I've a fear this past has become a zot/viking kittie ping

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

We have less trouble with dropped off cats than we do dogs.

Most of the cats get fixed and then put out into the barn. Their lives are fairly short usually but we have a few that are tough scrappers.

Dogs though... when you have your quota what do you do with them? If you leave them to run loose then you end up with a pack which you then have to hunt down and kill. Hopefully before they kill someone.

Unless there is something special about the dog they are put down. It is a crying shame because some are very nice dogs.

[P.O.E.]

Drowning kittens is cheap & low-tech, and unfortunately was necessary in rural farmland long ago. However, we do not live in rural farmland, and we have the technology & means to euthanize humanely, when unavoidable.

[Karliner]

We don’t get many dogs either but when it happens it sucks. Cats I can deal with but some of these dogs( read, most) were pets and many ware well trained. We’ve let them roam mostly and some adapt. Cats are out of control. We are far enough away from town it’s a perfect dumping ground and yet close enough for daddy or some evil sh&t to dump litters where other cats are and there is no answer except kill them. I’m no longer paying to neuter, nor putting up signs. I;m done with that. Happened the first couple years and it was enough and costly.

[kearnyirish2]

Yes, in this nutty country a bald eagle’s egg has more legal protection than a human one...