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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.
I am sure you are correct. This is his error. Dogs are classified differently than livestock, legally, and if he broke the laws, he should be fined or imprisoned as statutorily mandated.
yeah, you’re a REAL man...have you thought of Viagra? that might help you calm down.
I only eat meat that has been tortured. Pain-Meat is GOOD EATIN'.
“And you need to undevelop your miscalibrated sense of moral relevancy”...
Quite possibly my favorite FR response. I may have to steal it:)
Others in this thread seem to be taking on your morally faulty comparison well enough, but if you needed a further example of your mistake:
You might have noticed that over the years Hollywood made inspirational Westerns about cattle drives and ranching.
How come John Ford never directed John Wayne in an inspiring movie about gassing puppies in an illicit kennel?
Seems to me he bred too many pups and because of that felt he had to destroy them. One wrong leads to another.
I suppose if you get hungry enough and C Rations don’t make it for you any more, but I’d rather dine on the crackers with cheese/peanut butter because the available potable water would make sure the pipes kept flowing.
Try some thit cho with mam tom sauce
yeah, you’re a REAL man...have you thought of Viagra? that might help you calm down.
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I thought he destroyed them because they were infected. But maybe he did breed too many.
You are too dumb to reply to.
They were diseased.
Because of his neglect.
Do you eat dog?”
Hundreds of millions do, but I don’t.
Another Amish free rider, getting a pass because some sappy headed libs have idolized them. Some of my relatives live near some of these ideal low carbon citizens and they tell me they are a pain in the ass.
The problem is he broke the law. I don't like helmet laws or speeding laws for that matter seat belt laws, tax laws. Man the list is LONG. I am a rebel. But, if I get caught speeding, or breaking the law, I pay the price. He is in deepsheet doo doo. Period.
Now, you can easily make the case that some folks have pushed these laws too far. Likely so. When we can't drain off water on our farm land because some damn Geese from Canada want to stop over once a year, I am pissed about it and fight it. But if we go out and just "accidentally" drain it. We'd lose the farm.
I think you can make your case on statutes which take "protection" too far and usurp the natural rights of mankind, and do well by it. You would do far better with it, if you didn't make such an inane fuss about it and use the same "PETA" tactics like "do you eat meat" in your posts.
You catch more flies with honey. And if you want, since flies are bugs. You can kill them after you catch them. Just not with DDT. LOL
Federal Law?
Violation of a dog's civil rights?
On another note, I know many Humane Societies used the same method to kill animals in the past.
Maybe some of them still do.
What does the county or city do with excess animals if thye aren't "adopted"?
I agree, and they ought to put him in charge of obamacare.
Looks like you reeled in another one.
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