AR-News: W VA Gassing Started, Animals Desperate

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Date:6/14/2004 10:22:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time
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From: "Black Beauty" <lori1990 at qwest.net>
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 9:53 AM
Subject: EX URGENT - Gassing Started At the Mason County Animal Shelter, Pt
Pleasant, WV


PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, ask everyone you know to consider taking even ONE
little soul.  We can arrange transports.  PLEASE HELP.  Gassing is a
horrible way to die.

Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 4:24 AM
Subject: [WVShelterPets] EX URGENT - Gassing Started At the Mason County
Animal Shelter, Pt Pleasant, WV


The shelter director of the Mason County Animal Shelter in Point Pleasant,
WV is a compassionate woman.  For months, she's been fighting the county's
order to gas animals.  Yesterday she lost the fight. Gassing started and
will continue. Dogs and cats will be going into the gas chamber en masse
unless we can get them out of there.

This shelter has room for only about 24 dogs and about an equal number of
cats.  As of yesterday afternoon, there were 103 animals listed on
Petfinder, and that was just a small part.  They took in 25 new dogs on
Wednesday, another 10 on Thursday.  The intake numbers are incredible.  Now,
they're bursting at the seams and the county won't stand for it any longer.
There are dogs in the lobby, dogs in the cat cages, dogs kenneled three,
four, even five to a cage.  Dogs indoors and outdoors.  There's nowhere left
to put them.

Please take a look at the Petfinder site
http://www.petfinder.org/shelters/WV39.html  Animals with names under the
name of the pet are spoken for by rescues, but the rest of them are
available and need your help desperately, especially those on the first
page, which are the animals there the longest.  Big, mixed breed dogs are at
highest risk.  So are the cats.  There aren't many cat rescues working with
Mason, and the majority of those cats not spoken for will be gassed,
probably this weekend.

If you can help, please contact Missy at x5dogs at aol.com or either Kimberly
or Judy at catndog at ezwv.com. For most efficient response, please include
your name, address, phone number and email address along with the name of
your rescue, any web site URL AND the name, address and phone number of the
vet you use to alter and treat animals in your rescue.

The Mason County Animal Shelter is located at Route #1 , Box 480 , Point
Pleasant , WV 25550 Phone: (304) 675-6458
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