Kill Shelter Research Paper

The euthanasia of animals is a very problematic social issue in the world today. Approximately there are about 7.6 million companion animals that enter animal shelters each year. Of those, about 2.7 animals are euthanized, and cats have the highest rate, according to “The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals” (2017). When you hear the term euthanasia in reference to animals, you think of a painless process that ends the countless suffering your pet had to endure over the span of their lives. There are many reasons for which these animals are “put to sleep.” When most pet owners put their pets to sleep it is because their pets have incurable disease, painful illness, behavioral problems and are of old age. When an animal is suffering and is no longer able to recover, this process may be the most humane thing to do. However, euthanasia turns into murder when perfectly healthy animals are killed. Since there is an overpopulation of animals there are many animals left on the street wandering alone. When there isn’t any room for all these new animals being brought in from off the streets, shelters have no other option, but to euthanize. Each year more and more dogs and cats are born and sent into shelters, but for every animal being born another one has to leave and once the animal leave they are most likely going to be euthanized. No matter the situation animals are losing their lives for no clear reason.

Thesis: Addressing what a No Kill Shelter is and that they should have standards for using specific euthanasia methods, treating “unadoptable” animals, and evaluating the Live Release Rate will help decrease the unnecessary deaths of shelter animals around the world, especially with the help of shelter based programs.

Lethal injections have been around for many years with the same basic idea and procedure. Lethal injection uses three drugs, a fast acting barbiturate that sedates the inmate and the drug Tubocurarine that paralyzes the inmate, and finally potassium chloride is used to stop his heart. These methods have been a controversial issue for many reasons. People that supports lethal injection believes that it is more humane method of execution than any other because it cause little or no pain. It also argued that it is less expensive than detaining or placing someone in jail for life. As far as lethal injection been unconstitutional because the procedure causes unusual pain and suffering, some people believe that someone who has kill countless people deserve to physical

This causes a vast number of unadoptable animals to be euthanized. ASPCA states that approximately 3.9 million are dogs enter shelters nationwide every year, almost 1 out of 3 dogs will be euthanized. 2. The overpopulation problem is worsened by the existence of puppy mills. The ASPCA estimates “there could be as many as 10,000 puppy mills in the United States.”

Euthanasia or mercy killing, is the act of putting an entity to a painless death. For animals this is an injection of sodium phenobarbital; recognized as the most compassionate and painless method. The injection is mandated by law

No-Kill Shelters are very different from Kill and Low-Kill Shelters. For example, Maddie’s Fund wrote that no-kill shelters save all healthy and treatable dogs and cats. They will even keep the animal until it gets adopted. Around 7.6 million dogs and cats are sent to an animal shelter every year. But only 4.9 animals are saved mostly by no-kill shelters. However, if the animal is unhealthy or untreatable, they will put it down. Also, they only take in animals that are adoptable. Pet360 stated, “They do not accept animals without appointments and have a very thorough screening process. Additionally, these shelters often will not accept animals over a certain age,

Lethal injection is now almost the main method of execution in the US, with all but one of the 39 executions carried out during 2013 being by this method. Deadly injection changes from state to state.Normally, the prisoner is strapped to a gurney or a fixed execution table, rather than an operating room table by leather or webbing straps over the body and legs. All the chemicals used in the USA are standard medical drugs. Sodium thiopental is an ultra short acting barbiturate which was used widely as an anaesthetic and causes unconsciousness very quickly if injected into a vein."Capital punishment is supposed to serve the purposes of social defense and retribution. The argument that it deters or incapacitates dangerous offenders was not conclusively supported, and analysis of data herein failed to provide solid evidence for the death penalty as a mechanism of social defense."(Sorensen & Pilgrim,2006 , p.159)

Since 1976 there have 1386 executions by lethal injection. Lethal injection is the three drug protocol usually begins with an anesthetic or sedative, followed by pancuronium-bromide to paralyze the inmate, and potassium chloride to

Lethal injection uses three chemicals that are injected through an IV; thiopental which induces unconsciousness, pancuronium bromide, which paralyzes the muscles, and potassium chloride, which causes cardiac arrest. These three chemicals combine can stop a person’s heart in less than two minutes. (Denno 2) It was created by medical examiner and pathologist Jay Chapman, later known as “Chapman’s Cocktail”(Dyer) Many states turned to this method of execution because it was cheaper than the electric chair, the gas chamber, or any other methods used

The article, Shelter response and vulnerability of displaced populations in the April 25, 2015 Nepal earthquake was wrote by many people, Bijam Khazai, Johannes Anhorn, Trevor Girard, Susan Brink, James Daniell, Tina Bessel, Bernhard Muhr, Verena Florchinger, and Tina Kunz-Plapp and it was published in May 2015. The article was about the Nepal earthquake and what other people did with people who experienced the trauma after the Nepal earthquake.

When an animal gets put into a shelter it doesn’t always mean that they stay there and get cared for and nourished. Some shelters kill the animals when they need space for other animals. These shelters are called Kill shelters. According to www.pet360.com

Many may ask, why waste a valuable life? Why kill when you can just save them and adopt? Animals deserve the chance to live just like any person in this world does. Over the past 20 years, animal shelter communities in the United States has been grappling with the overpopulation problem of domestic animals (Rowan). Nationally, around four million animals are killed in animal shelters each year. Of the animals killed, roughly 95% of the shelters animals and treatable and healthy (Winograd). Each year between two to four million animals are euthanized (Winograd). Normally these animals are domestic such as dogs, cats, horses, and so on. Most people like to believe that the animals are being put down because an incurable disease but that is far from the truth. You have to take in account those who are euthanized because there are not enough homes or space to

According to the Human Society’s website, there are over 2.7 million adoptable cats and dogs that are euthanized each year.

Each year, approximately 1.5 million shelter animals are euthanized (Pet Statistics). According to the ASPCA, about 670,000 dogs and 860,000 cats are euthanized in shelters each year in the U.S.A (Pet Statistics). Animals in shelters are should not be euthanized because they are just waiting to be adopted by a loving family.

In some shelters, they are so crowded that puppies and kittens are euthanized. It is awful that some animals are killed before they get to really live. Up to 600 puppies and 1.4 million cats are euthanized each year. Cats have a worse stereotype so they are adopted less.