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Animal euthanasia (euthanasia from Greek: εὐθανασία; "good death") is the act of killing an animal humanely, most commonly with injectable drugs. Reasons for euthanasia include incurable (and especially painful) conditions or diseases, [ 1 ] lack of resources to continue supporting the animal, or laboratory test procedures.
In 2004, the first lawsuit filed under the Hayden Act, Petitioner Patricia Lock, represented by California attorney, and Animal Rights and Hayden Act expert, Kate Neiswender, sought an injunction prohibiting Kern County, California from violating the act by euthanizing companion animals prior to the expiration of the holding period and engaging in other prohibited conduct.
The county's Palmdale Animal Care Center was supposed to be a cutting-edge shelter that would relieve overcrowding and reduce euthanasia. But that's not how it's turned out.
A no-kill shelter is an animal shelter that does not kill healthy or treatable animals based on time limits or capacity, reserving euthanasia for terminally ill animals, animals suffering poor quality of life, or those considered dangerous to public safety. Some no-kill shelters will commit to not killing any animals at all, under any ...
Two younger puppies at the Wake County Animal Center in Raleigh, N.C. on Wednesday, June 22, 2022. As shelters nationwide work to keep euthanasia rates down, attendees of the 2022 Best Friends ...
From the beginning of 2023 through the end of September, the shelters have euthanized 2,536 dogs and 685 cats — that’s 10 times the number of animals euthanized during the same period in 2020 ...
A 2011 survey of U.S. pet owners found that 71% agreed that "Animal shelters should only be allowed to euthanize animals when they are too sick to be treated or too aggressive to be adopted," while only 25% agreed that "Sometimes animal shelters should be allowed to euthanize animals as a necessary way of controlling the population of animals ...
Despite spending $50 million to search for alternatives to animal euthanasia, California is killing more dogs and cats now than when the money was first allotted. Gavin Newsom spent $50 million to ...