From: Companion Animal Network
To: Companion Animal Network
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 4:25 PM
LIVE TV SHOW SHOWS GASSING OF DOGS TOMORROW !!!




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Dear Friends of Animals,



Clinton supporter North Carolina Governor Mike Easley has failed to request the introduction of legislation which would override the Commissioner of Agriculture's recent removal of the state's own board's recommendation to end the killing of pets by carbon monoxide gas under the excuse that "aggressive dogs are safer to kill by gas." Most of this country uses injection to euthanize even aggressive dogs, including 67 of North Carolina's  100 counties, but the Ag. Commissioner's people appear to be claiming that aggressive dogs in the 37 counties which DO use gas are more vicious than those in the 63 which do not.  It is not worth commenting.  This kind of false excuses by politicians is what has caused so many voters to not vote.

I urge you to watch the video at: http://www.companionanimalnetworktv.org/Videos/yadkin_county.mov

and see the gassing being done TODAY in Yadkin County and 36 other counties in N.C. (63 use injectable). It takes 2-3 minutes to load. This video will be shown tomorrow night in NYC on Time Warner Queens Ch. 34 at 8 PM, and in Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Staten Island and Nassau and Suffolk counties and the Hamptons in Long Island where the move stars live.  It will then go into reruns for many years to come, airing twice every year on all our cablesystems. Our television program is carried by Cablevision, Time Warner, and RCN Cable. Though this video is on our website, I had chosen not to watch it until last night, in preparing it to be broadcast on the show.  IT SHOOK ME TO THE CORE !!  IF YOU REFUSE TO WATCH THE ATTACHED VIDEO YOU WILL NOT BE MOTIVATED TO DO WHAT YOU WOULD OTHERWISE DO, AND YOU WILL BE JUST AS MUCH TO BLAME FOR THE CONTINUATION OF THIS MONSTROSITY !!

After watching the video please call N.C. Gov. Easley at               919-733-4240        and               919-733-5811       , Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler at               919-733-7125       , and Chamber of Commerce Pres Lew Ebert at               919-836-1407        and tell them that you will boycott N.C. goods and will spread the word about the practices of N.C.  If Gov. Easley's office tells you that the Agriculture Commissioner is a separately elected office, tell Mr. Easley that the governor can cause the introduction of state legislation banning gassing.

In Georgia, even though a law was passed banning gassing of animals, the State Assenblyman who passed that law has sued the state for refusing to enforce it 10 years after enactment. States which still allow gas must be federally banned from doing so. I have spoken with the attorney doing that law suit. Also, please ask the Democratic and Republican Platform Committees to include a ban on all gas killing of animals. I, for one, an uncommitted voter, have decided to NOT vote for Obama nor McCain unless and until one or the other addresses this issue by agreeing to nationally ban gas killing of animals. I intend to reach both campaigns.

This email needs to be mass distributed nationally, being sent to blogs, other media, yahoogroups. Please forward it to everyone you know. The power of the internet and television to force change has been proven over and over.  Please help us end this monstrous practice NOW!  If this was happening to you or me every day which passed by would matter.  Just think of the southern summer heat inside those kill boxes, with dozens of pets stuffed in them like toys, pinned against one another unable to move even a paw.  Just think of the horror, the anguish, the fear, the TERROR !!!



Garo Alexanian

Companion Animal Network