Posted on 09/14/2010 11:46:17 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
A commercial kennel owner in New York destroyed 93 dogs using a hose connected to a farm engine and pumping carbon monoxide into a makeshift "gas chamber."
David Yoder, owner of Black Diamond Acres kennel in Romulus, told a U.S. Department of Agriculture inspector during a July 15 inspection that he killed the dogs to "depopulate" the kennel.
Yoder said he created an airtight chamber out of a wood whelping box (where nursing puppies are typically housed with their mothers) by fitting the opening with a metal door with a small hole for an exhaust pipe which was attached to a 3 horsepower farm engine.
Then he gassed "approximately" 78 adult dogs and 15 puppies in groups of five or six. Yoder said he left the barn during the gassing because he had a headache from the fumes. He also said he used a stethoscope to make sure the dogs had stopped breathing before burying them, according to the inspection report.
It is against federal law for a licensed kennel owner to perform their own euthanasia. The inspector, Andrea D'Ambrosio, also noted that dogs not immediately gassed likely suffered from inhaling the excess fumes.
"The manner of mass euthanasia caused potentially high levels of behavioral stress and unnecessary discomfort to all the dogs in the kennel," the report said.
Mary Anne Kowalski, a board member of the Seneca County SPCA, said she was not aware of anyone from the USDA reporting what she believes is a clear case of animal cruelty to local authorities.
The dogs were killed sometime after a June 29 inspection where Yoder had been ordered to get his dogs tested and treated for Brucellosis (after earlier tests indicated some of his dogs had the contagious disease) and before the inspector returned on July 15.
The case bears an eerie resemblance to the 2008 mass shooting at a Berks County, Pa., kennel after the owner was told to treat his dogs for flea infestation. That incident helped propel the passage of the new state dog law and the immediate prohibition of euthanasia by any means other than by a licensed veterinarian.
Romulus, located 60 miles southeast of Rochester in Seneca County, may have been the first municipality in the nation to ban puppy mills when it passed an ordinance last year outlawing commercial kennels.
Seneca County has a sizeable Amish population, and many are involved in dog breeding, Kowalski said. Yoder, who is Amish, bred poodles, Bichons, Maltese and Boston Terriers. He was allowed to continue operating his kennel in Romulus despite the ban because it was grandfathered under the new ordinance.
Kowalski, who discovered the report of the gassing on the USDA website while updating her files today, said she was stunned at what she read. "I just lost it," she said.
Kowalski said she reported the incident to the sheriff and district attorney in the hope that cruelty charges will be brought against Yoder.
"I hope these dogs did not die in vain," she said.
“What’s all the uproar, seems like a pretty humane way to put them down.”
Beats throwing them in the river like that Lituanian girl did.
People, people, people. A little perspective please. I’m not advocating killing puppies, but geez, this guy wasn’t running one of the German concentration camps.
I am so sorry you had to go through that with your doggie.
Wipe the saliva off your face and answer the question - do you ever eat meat?
Apparently you're a long way from fully recovered.
The problem is, this guy looks at dogs like you look at cows or pigs (or like a farmer looks at cows or pigs—I don’t rightly know how you look at them). They are livestock, and because these had a disease, brucellosis,which makes them unbreedable and thus worthless to him, that was his only recourse. What he did makes sense to him, as a businessman, but to us, who see dogs as pets and as family members it seems horrific.
What this guy did was NOT produce Carbon Monoxide. The way to do that, is to have the exhaust AND intake vented into the same room, then the engine creates CO when it doesn't have enough oxygen to run properly.
What this idiot did was to GAS them in a horrible and painful way. Dying by this method is not painless, and is not falling asleep.
It violates the Veterinarian Full Employment Act
Should have used pure nitrogen instead.
Do you know how many helpless bacteria (they are animals) are killed purely for profit by pharmaceutical companies? It’s called making antibiotics.
I guess you are one of those types that just enjoys being soooooo Macho and au naturale! tough guy, huh?
Do you ever eat meat? What has that got to do with gassing puppies? These aren’t livestock.
Maybe we should start placing Muslims on the Amish farms...
First, they came for the MiniPins, and I did not bark out, because I was not a MiniPin.
Then they came for the Schnausers, and I did not bark out, because I was not a Schnauser.
Then they came for the Poodles and I did not bark out, because I was not a Poodle.
Then they came for me, and there was no one left to bark out for me.
Or are you just emotional right now?
This isn't a problem. The problem is when some animals are considered different than others. This is a western cultural thing promulgated by the wackjobs in PETA and the ASPCA. Dogs ARE livestock (thit cho). They're animals, not furry little people.
I used to work for a vet, and generally, they just go peacefully, it would figure it was my own dog who had such a bad time of it. The vet explained to me that sometimes if they are very sick (she was) the system is already shutting down, and the medication is slower to work. It was very awful to watch. In hindsight I wish we had given her something to make her go to sleep first, but I had no idea. In the big scheme of things it was still over fairly quickly, but it is one of those memories I will always have, unfortunately.
You nailed it...greed.
It sounded like he thought that’s what he was doing. But, I admit I’m not an expert on gassing anyone.
There's your problem. Actually livestock is exactly what they are.
Do you eat dog?
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