An Ohio Dog Shelter Buys a Gas Chamber ---
-- to Destroy It
The deal is backed by a $10,000 donation, and the public is invited to help destroy the device.
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If Medina County sold off the gas chamber, it would just wind up in another shelter, still killing animals. After the commissioners voted, Theresa Landon, director of the Ohio SPCA, said, "We have a huge database of supporters that will now be asked to join us in requesting that the Medina County commissioners reconsider their decision. The death box must be destroyed, cut up, and sold as scrap metal."
And thanks to an anonymous donor, that's exactly what will happen.
A county resident has offered to donate $10,000 to the Medina County SPCA if the gas chamber is destroyed. The SPCA will buy the chamber from the county for $1, and then give the county the proceeds from selling the metal as scrap.
The donation will be used to pay to take care of cats. Because the county shelter, which is designed to handle dogs, stopped accepting cats last month, the county has subcontracted with the SPCA to take the cats in. Before the SPCA took over, 289 cats died in the gas chamber last year alone. After a public outcry, the county stopped using the chamber to kill dogs several years ago.
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