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North Utah Valley Animal Shelter NUVAS in Utah County is one of only four shelters left in the entire country still using a gas chamber to kill dogs and cats.

. Utah animal rights advocates protested animal shelter gas chamber use on June 15 at Orem City Hall and presented a 50-foot-long petition to city council members. Nadya is a very sweet kitten. And in Missouri a shelter stopped using their gas chamber after experiencing the unsettling.

A kitten peers out of its cage at a Utah animal hospital on Sept. Connor Richards Daily Herald file photo. As the chamber slowly fills with poisonous gas the animals begin to experience side effects from carbon monoxide poisoning.

At NUVAS their gas chamber is their sole method to kill shelter animals. The protest was held when potential adopters found out the dog they planned to adopt a 3-year-old husky named Penguin was euthanized at North Utah Valley Animal Shelter earlier in the month. Will be available for rescue on 692022.

A former NUVAS employee has publicly testified that animals killed in the NUVAS gas chamber suffer horribly. Animal rights advocates argue its an inhumane and outdated practice and say two shelters in Utah County are among the last in the country killing animals this way. We also need volunteers to clean the habitats at the clinton utah and riverdale utah petco stores where we now have some of our adoptable cats and kittens.

Another effort to end the use of gas chamber animal euthanasia in Utah one of the few states that still uses it. Since 2019 they have killed over 1000 dogs and cats using this cruel and outdated method. This despite his promise to convert to humane EBI and after accepting a grant for over 1500.

Hunt said her organization partnered with the North Utah Valley Animal Shelters director in 2018 to end the practice and switch to euthanasia by injection the method widely considered more humane. In another step. Please contact utah legislators and tell them you want animal gas chambers dismantled and banned in the state of utah.

Erica Olsen started the petition End North UT Valley Animal Shelter Murdering Animals In Gas Chambers which over several weeks has been signed by nearly 67000 people. 1 weather alerts 1. The North Utah Valley Animal Shelter NUVAS in Lindon serves Orem and 10 other cities that include Alpine American Fork Cedar Hills Eagle Mountain Highland Lehi Lindon Orem Pleasant Grove Saratoga Springs and Vineyard.

The Utah Animal Rights Coalition UARC said North Utah Valley Animal Shelter director Tug Gettling announced the end of gas chamber euthanasia at a public board meeting on Thursday. These are some of the animals killed in the NUVAS gas chamber so far in 2021. Over six months ago the director of north utah valley animal shelter announced he would stop using his gas chamber yet he is still using it.

Two of these gas chambers remain in Utah one at the North Utah Valley Animal Shelter and the other at the South Utah Valley Animal Shelter in Spanish Fork. More than 66000 people have signed a petition to end gas chamber euthanasia for pets at north utah valley animal shelter in lindon. FOX 13 News reached out to the North Utah Valley Animal Shelter.

Animal advocates have renewed a call to action to ban gas chamber animal euthanasia in the state of Utah. Utah animal rights activists protest the North Utah Valley Animal Shelter outside of the Orem City Center on Tuesday June 15 2021. She and Jeremy Beckham.

The group claims it comes after members and supporters made phone calls sent emails and participated in protests to ban the method. The Utah Animal Rights Coalition organized the protest after a petition to ban gas chambers at North Utah Valley Animal Shelter took off amassing over 70000 signatures. Animal rights advocates are strongly against gas chambers for euthanising shelter animals.

For nine consecutive legislative sessions Utah has considered bills to ban gas chamber euthanasia entirely but the legislation never made it to the governors desk for signature into lawDuring an Orem City Council meeting back on. SB69 banning gas chambers in animal shelters has again been defeated in 2022. A local protest against gas chamber euthanasia was captured on video last week.

UARC says South Utah Valley Animal Shelter in Spanish Fork is now the only shelter in Utah euthanizing animals by gas chamber. Director Tug Gettling accepted a 15000 grant which Hunt says is higher than any other shelters have received from the Humane Society and donors. Due to opposition from two Utah County Sheriffs and NUVAS director Tug Gettling who operates them.

In another step forward for the animals North Utah Valley Animal Shelter NUVAS announced on August 26 2021 that it will end gas chamber euthanasia after 10 years of pressure. Erica Olsen started the petition End North UT Valley Animal Shelter Murdering Animals In Gas Chambers which over several weeks has been signed by nearly 67000 people. FROM Jeremy Beckham UARC Utah Animal Rights Coalition August 2021.

The utah animal rights coalition organized the protest after a petition to ban gas chambers at north utah valley animal shelter took off amassing over 70000 signatures.

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