Believe it or not, the Committee on Animal Welfare (CAW) is again pushing for the reinstatement of Tambucho Gassing as an accepted form of euthanasia in the Philippines. This comes after CAW dragged its feet from August 2010 to April 2011, stultifying a directive from Secretary Proceso Alcala of the Department of Agriculture to rewrite a previous CAW-endorsed administrative order that embraced Tambucho Gassing like it was a God-sent cure-all for stray or unwanted animals. For those coming into this matter only now, Tambucho Gassing is not carbon monoxide gassing as CAW would like the world to believe. Tambucho Gassing is death by vehicular exhaust fumes. No gas cylinders are used, just a rubber hose connected to a clunky, old, usually badly tuned gas engine. The animals are entombed in a sealed metal container and toxic fumes are pumped into it. In terms of expediency, the process is slow, inefficient, and ineffective against the problem. In terms of humanity, it is depraved, utterly c...
Catching mice. For most people, the issue is cut and dry. A mouse trap catches them and that normally leads to their death via a quick snap of a lever or by a slow death on a sticky surface. Problem solved, or at least for the moment it is. Catching " vermin " is not that simple for those who love animals. It's a moral and philosophical dilemma, and it's not nitpicking. I hate painful and cruel animal trapping as much as I detest animal lab testing. We should employ a more humane way of capture and disposal. PETA is marketing a humane mouse trap for only $11.00. It's reusable and clean, but you need to relocated the trapped mice. Here's the webpage for this product:
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