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
Here's a photo that is circulating around the web. Obama is not a pet owner, and there is no evidence that he ever was. However, that doesn't mean that he is oblivious to animal welfare. For sure, Obama does not shoot animals for sport unlike Sarah Palin. So, Obama could be of great help in Washington, either as a Senator or President, to further the cause of animal welfare whatever or however that could be. I must say that Obama does not seem comfortable holding an animal in his hands, or maybe I am just seeing too much into it. The dog, Baby, by the way, is a survivor of the puppy mills of northern California. Baby spent a decade in a puppy mill, producing litter after litter. One of Baby’s legs had been so badly mangled, having lived in a cage, that it had to be amputated. Yes, Baby is a three-legged poodle who travels the country as an ambassador for puppy mill dogs everywhere.
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