See Mimi Cooper pictured above with her PetSmart Inc, check in hand
PetSmart Inc supports killing homeless animals via the Randolph
NC Gas Chamber. Do you want the facts that this reporter left out? Do you care
about how the media spins just about anything and everything these days?
When you go to check out at PetsMart register the screen will ask if you would like to donate money towards their PetsMart Charity group, which one would reasonably think has been checked out thoroughly esp. those they choose to donate money to, if you were under this impression you would be wrong, dead gas chamber wrong that is. Is the Prison program a great program that's up and running in many animal shelters, YES. However you have to better understand the history of the Randolph Animal Shelter located in Asheboro NC.
When you go to check out at PetsMart register the screen will ask if you would like to donate money towards their PetsMart Charity group, which one would reasonably think has been checked out thoroughly esp. those they choose to donate money to, if you were under this impression you would be wrong, dead gas chamber wrong that is. Is the Prison program a great program that's up and running in many animal shelters, YES. However you have to better understand the history of the Randolph Animal Shelter located in Asheboro NC.
2/ They were offered in 2010 from a private citizen a sum of
over $10,000.00 for the County to do with as they wished for any dept. if they
would just dismantle the Gas Chambers and move to EBI, a more humane option
when dealing with euthanasia of an animal.
Mimi Cooper, with the County Health Dept. refused this donation. As she prefers to kill animals via a Gas Chambers
than a more humane and cost effective way. ( That tells the story within itself.)
3/ HSUS of NC and ASPCA then donates $6,000.00 to the same shelter for
a fresh coat of paint. And never addresses the animals are being killed via a
barbaric Gas Chamber, that volunteers are refused time and time by Mimi Copper
and her staff, animals are not pictured at intake and posted immediately for
owners to recover their lost animals or to jump start the adoption process for
those in need.
Could I list about 8 other infractions and heartbreaking
items, yes I could but what is the need. The only item I feel anyone needs to
take away here is PetsMart Inc, supports killing animals via a Gas Chamber and that’s how cut and dry this
needs to be.
Will I ever walk in a PetsMart again NO. And with as many animals
as I have both personally and in my rescue, this was not a wise move for them.
Goodbye PetsMart and shame on your Corporation of Charities
for not taking the time to better understand the situation at the Randolph
County Animal Shelter and to write a $10,000.00 check off the backs of your
daily donators who now see what little education and knowledge your employees
have before they write out any checks. If we were to dig deeper, would we find
even worse with some of the checks they have written die to their sloppy protocol,
I bet we would.
But this ends now for me, I will never shop one of their
stores again.
Double Gas Chambers at the Randolph County Animal Shelter right beside the first kennels of dogs to not only see their pals drug and shoved into these chambers, but also in a direct ear shot to hear them scream, fight and claw their way to death.
Yes, Petsmart Charities this is what you just paid for and now many of us will never shop your stores again.
Shame on anyone who feels this is a humane way of death for any creature.
Apparently Petsmart knew exactly what the money was for. Mimi Cooper stated in the Courier Tribune interview:
ReplyDeleteMiMi Cooper, county health director, said when Petsmart opens a store in a community they like to make a contribution through their charitable foundation (Petsmart Charities) toward something positive that is going on with animals. Petsmart opened in Asheboro in April.
“They had heard about the New Leash program and called me for more information. I wrote a request to help with some of the funding needs for the program,” Cooper said. “They contacted me in the mid-summer to let me know we were approved and then just last week called to set up the presentation of the ‘Big Check.’ “
If the money had been spent on the shelter as a whole, less killing, gas chamber dismantled, more vetting, more food, expansion, anything these donations would have been wonderful! But to use it just on the few selected isn't fair to all the other animals and makes the shelter look bad.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you! The gas chambers are being dismantled in shelters across the nation. The fact that this shelter uses 2 of them is unconscionable. They need to raise their standards for caring for animals!
DeleteYou are correct William Allred. It's such a shame how $10,000.00 was wasted from PetsMart when a better use for these funds were right before all of our eyes. Dismantle and Destroy the Gas Chambers, this was the humane route to take.
ReplyDeleteI think people with puppy mills should be made to watch how their dogs are killed..
ReplyDeletepeople with puppy mills don't even watch as their own dogs suffer and die for MONTHS and YEARS...
DeleteDo you think that puppy mill people would really care? All they see in these poor pups is $$$....
Deletewhat r u people thinking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so all u wont to kill animals wei if that's what u give money for u wont get mine!!!!!!!!!! and I sure u b loosing a lot of costumers and im one!!!!!! I cant belive pet smart is doing this!!!!!
ReplyDeleteSo, they sent "charity money" to support a Doggy Treblinka is what it amounts to!
ReplyDeleteRandolph County, you have some great programs in place to rehome dogs. However, the gas chamber is not acceptable and should be dismantled. Petsmart, when you brag about giving money and publically present a "big" check expect feedback.
ReplyDeleteDISGRACEFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
ReplyDeleteI'm done with Petsmart, you'll never see me in one again.
ReplyDeleteI am appauled...Will be talking to them about this. Printing out now.
ReplyDeleteThis is DISGUSTING and HEARTBREAKING! I am so pissed right now! I am one of those people who spend well over $100 each month at PetSmart and donate $1.00 in addition each time! Guess I will have to find another source for my pets' needs.
ReplyDeleteOH my god, I thought that they had been outlawed. The only way that any animal should be put to sleep is with injection by a licensed vet. This is appauling. Animals suffer unbelievably in these chambers. This has to stop.
ReplyDeleteThis is fake... the check in the picture is to new leash on life... so your research that's a nokilling facility....!!! Don't believe everything you see on the internet this is FAKE FAKE FAKE
ReplyDeleteNew Leash on Life is a program of the county health department, which operates the county animal shelter, which uses gas chambers to kill animals. What's fake?
ReplyDeleteThis is NOT fake, this real, Alexia has no idea what she is talking about. The first 10,000$ donation for the county to use any way they wanted as long as they dismantled the gas chambers was from a local Vet and Mimi Cooper refused to. This is real and there is nobody in Randolph county that can stop it.
ReplyDeleteTHE ENTIRE NATION KNOWS ABOUT THE SHAME OF RANDOLPH COUNTY WITH THE PETITIONS CURRENTLY BEING CIRCULATED. THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR THIS HORRIBLE METHOD OF EUTHANASIA IN A CIVILIZED COUNTRY. MANY STATES HAVE ALREADY BANNED IT AS WELL AS MOST OF THE COUNTIES IN NC. MIMI COOPER IS REPLACABLE AS ARE THE COMMISSIONERS THAT REFUSE TO LIST TO SOUND LOGICAL REASONING. THE EVIDENCE IS CLEARLY SHOWN IN PICTURES AND VIDEOS....DOGS FIGHTING TO BREATH JUST AS HUMANS WITH ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISTRESS, CHOKING ON THEIR SALIVA AND VOMIT AND THEN STATUS CONVULSING....AS A ICU RN, I UNDERSTAND THE INHUMANE WAY THAT CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING KILLS. I ALSO UNDERSTAND THE UNNECCESSARY HEALTH RISKS INVOLVED WITH THE EMPLOYEES FORCED TO ENDURE THIS. MIMI COOPER....YOUR CONTROL OVER OUR FAMILY PETS WILL COME TO AN END SOON ENOUGH AS WE NEED SOMEONE THAT TREATS THEM HUMANELY AND THAT IS NOT YOU. EBI ADDITIONALLY TAKES SOME CARING BUT DOES NOT COST BUT PENNIES MORE THAN THE UPKEEP AND SUPPLIES FOR A GAS CHAMBER. WITH A RECENT $3000 GRANT FROM HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE US, THE COST TO THE COUNTY IS IRRELEVANT.
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