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.
that is disgusting...You are trying to be funny about two horrific things, the Holocaust and animal Abuse ( which correlates to Human Abuse).
But your Macho Macho -tough Guy posts are always on here.
you must really be inadequate. Don’t worry, we are all so impressed with your toughness and sarcasm.
My FRiend. Eating meat is not a defense of abuse. First slaughter animals are not domesticated companion animals. Second they are humanly killed, usually by a strike right through the brain.
Cows are not pack animals, they have no deference to obey or trust the rancher. Dogs are social animals and these we lead into a crude and likely based on the testimony, weakly functioning gassing chamber.
This would have led to a slow and traumatic death. Thereby cruel. And in violation of the statutes for professional euthanasia. For that he should be fined and imprisoned. I might add, mentally evaluated.
It is obvious he knew what he was doing and had been cited for other violations and purposed to subvert the law. For that he is guilty. But this has nothing to do with any hypocrisy on behalf of those who hunt, or eat meat or who do neither.
This is a simple open and shut case and the full extent of the law should be applied.
Are we then to presume dogs are on your menu?
I think you’re on my list of people who it’s best I not respond to.
“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.”
However he WAS using one of their early methods.
that used to be the way the pound put the animals down...its a lot cheaper than a shot!
LOL!!!
Yeah. A dog is not a cow a cow is not a bug, a bug is not a bacterium, etc. Distinctions can, have been, and should be drawn.
Not since 1970 with mam tom.
Have you ever seen how skinny their horses are? There's not an ounce of fat anywhere on them.
“Then they came for me, and there was no one left to bark out for me.”
Well played, sir. Thanks for the laugh.
Dreams never count.
Do you know what a non sequitur is? I am advocating following the law. If you wish to advocate for changing the law, that is fine. But it doesn't apply here. I you get caught speeding, then years later they raise the speed limit, you don't get your fine back.
Bacteria, Trees, Bugs, Livestock and pets all fall under different classifications. You know this. It is a strawman and it is dishonest to try and make an absurd point over what is merely an application of the law.
Answer my question first.
thanks for your reasoned post.
You have more patience than I do. A lot of the negative posts are from Tough Macho Guys who “shock” to impress how adequate they are. Ironic that they then support abuse and mentally sadistic people as ‘manly” and “just life”.
I am only grateful that I see them only occasionally on Freeper and do not have to interact with them on a daily basis. I pray for those who do.
Humaness to all animals is a sign of confidence and caring for ALL God’s creatures. I trust those who treat animals with respect and kindness to treat humans the same way, and amazingly, the research says the same thing.
I suspect that he killed the dogs because state regulations requiring vaccination and testing made it not cost effective to keep them. This was the same story with the guy who shot his dogs. They then made it illegal to do that which is why this guy is in trouble. The state trying to help the animals results in getting them killed.
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