Is euthanization by injection the only way animals are euthanized at the pound?
Sadly, the answer is no. San Antonio Express-News 2004 – Texas The cost of closing the gas chambers at the San Antonio animal pound and using lethal injections for euthanasia could be a fraction of the city’s estimate, according to a standard analysis used by other municipal pounds. Metro Health Director Dr. Fernando Guerra told city leaders at a packed public forum last week that it would cost as much as $500,000 for equipment and additional staff to administer the injections. That would increase the pound budget of $3.2 million by 16 percent, a significant expansion for an agency that has been a low city priority and has had its staffing trimmed in the past five years. But the Express-News, using a formula relied on by animal-control departments around the country, found the annual cost of lethal injections at the pound would be no more than $74,000 including startup and staffing costs to euthanize nearly 50,000 cats and dogs, the same number that will be gassed this year. The Expres
As far as I know, animals at the pound are not euthanized by injection. That would be WAY too expensive. I believe the methods used are gas, freezing, and vacuum chamber. Of those, I believe the most common is vacuum chamber. They simply put a bunch of animals in a sealed chamber and suck the air out. It’s quick and cheap.
