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Show DOGS KILLED BY GAS. Humane Method of Disposing: of Them Adopted in Chicago. The Chicago Humane Society has at last hit upon a novel but effectual means of disposing of vagrant curs he-fore he-fore the heat of summer sets in. They are being gathered up from the streets and asphyxiated by gas. Calls are responded re-sponded to by the Humane society when made bv residents of the city who may be bothered by stray dogs. A number of women, who may be actuated actu-ated by humanitarian impulses, are cooperating co-operating with the society to gather up the animals left to wander and starve along the thoroughfares. It is largely due to their repeated requests for a milder means of destroying dogs that the new scheme of extermination by gas has been brought about. They consider death by shooting an unnecessarily unnec-essarily painful process. A small metal tank closely sealed witli a tight cover is filled with common illuminating illuminat-ing gas admitted by a tube. A small aperture in the cover permits the air to be forced out. Into this tank, one at a time, the dogs are dropped, the gas is turned on, and in thirty seconds they are unconscious and in less than a minute they are lifeless. Two feet of gas is considered sufficient quantity to kill a dog, and the expense amounts to practically the same as the bullet. Chicago Tribune. |