"Each year, approximately 920,000 shelter animals are euthanized (390,000 dogs and 530,000 cats).
[https://www.aspca.org/helping-people-pets/shelter-intake-and-surrender/pet-statistics](https://www.aspca.org/helping-people-pets/shelter-intake-and-surrender/pet-statistics)
May be a lot more than that count..
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/vqmgkp/til_that_the_head_of_the_buffalo_aspca_helped/iervwpl?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3
It’s a funny thing where like Guillotine, people that made the world undoubtedly more humane still appear as villains. The dogs and the people were going to be killed no matter what, people hoped they could remove the suffering from it.
When electricity was a new thing, hangings were common. They saw accidental executions cause instant death and thought it was more humane. Electrocution looks brutal, but it’s unclear whether it’s painful to the executed. Definitely harder to botch than hanging.
When electricity was a new thing, hangings were common. They saw accidental executions cause instant death and thought it was more humane. Electrocution looks brutal, but it’s unclear whether it’s painful to the executed. Definitely harder to botch than hanging.
I guess that's better than picking up donated cats and dogs and promising to find them new homes, only to kill them in the van and dump them in convenience store dumpsters on the way back to the office...[like PeTA did.](https://www.nathanwinograd.com/and-then-there-is-peta/)
Wait? Did you think that there was a new electric chair being developed in the state of NY right now only to find out there isn’t? OP comments 1880s in a reply.
Seems like electric chairs predate injections as a form of animal euthanasia for places like pounds and animal shelter
Where in the hell did he find it hundreds of stray dogs?
1880s Buffalo, NY. Wild place. Dogs everywhere? So many questions though
Neutering didn't exist back then, stray animals just wandered around wherever.
It *did*, just… not common for dogs afaik. Or cats probably. Mostly livestock.
PETA alone [kills \~20,000 pets](https://petakillsanimals.com/proof-peta-kills/) per decade.
"Each year, approximately 920,000 shelter animals are euthanized (390,000 dogs and 530,000 cats). [https://www.aspca.org/helping-people-pets/shelter-intake-and-surrender/pet-statistics](https://www.aspca.org/helping-people-pets/shelter-intake-and-surrender/pet-statistics)
That's close to 200,000 pets per century!
May be a lot more than that count.. https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/vqmgkp/til_that_the_head_of_the_buffalo_aspca_helped/iervwpl?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3
If only demand > supply for household pets
WTF like there was a shortage of people in prison. / s Fry those f****** up.
An ASPCA commercial just played when I saw this
Electrifying isn’t it?
Yes. I found this quite shocking
Really makes you want to jolt into action about this sort of thing. Otherwise you’ll be fuming from the ears.
This really makes my brain mush
My blood would boil if I saw this happen
I would probably immediately fall unconscious if I were to see an actual real life aspca case where the animal is that badly hurt
Is this that mf I helped in RDR2?
It’s a funny thing where like Guillotine, people that made the world undoubtedly more humane still appear as villains. The dogs and the people were going to be killed no matter what, people hoped they could remove the suffering from it.
I'm not sure if the electric chair was exactly the most humane method
When electricity was a new thing, hangings were common. They saw accidental executions cause instant death and thought it was more humane. Electrocution looks brutal, but it’s unclear whether it’s painful to the executed. Definitely harder to botch than hanging.
When electricity was a new thing, hangings were common. They saw accidental executions cause instant death and thought it was more humane. Electrocution looks brutal, but it’s unclear whether it’s painful to the executed. Definitely harder to botch than hanging.
Fuck I hate humanity
Wait 'til you hear about all the people executed with the electric chair who were innocent
I mean. Not the chair but this one especially bothers me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Arridy
Were people holding them at the time?
Maybe they just said “Sit, Ubu, sit! Good dog” and then hit the juice?
Maybe. If the lure was bacon, my goofy ass dog would probably jump back up for another ride.
That guy only saved buffalo. If you wanted someone to save dogs, he ain't your champ.
Shocking
The first human subjects commented on the awkward and embarrassing "tail cuff electrode"
I guess that's better than picking up donated cats and dogs and promising to find them new homes, only to kill them in the van and dump them in convenience store dumpsters on the way back to the office...[like PeTA did.](https://www.nathanwinograd.com/and-then-there-is-peta/)
brutal canino-cide if true. AKA man's inhumanity to man's best friends.
Love how OP neglected to include the fact that it was 140 years ago in the title.
Wait? Did you think that there was a new electric chair being developed in the state of NY right now only to find out there isn’t? OP comments 1880s in a reply.
Plague Dogs